Interior Ministry

Interior Ministry changes the rules: Are you eligible for the new property tax discount?

New Interior Ministry rules: The model calculates per capita income and excludes allowances, making many middle-class families eligible for property tax discounts.

Money bills
Population & Immigration Authority CEO Boaz Yosef

The dramatic plan: Another 100,000 foreign workers by 2027

Crowds at Big Fashion in Glilot during the complex's first weekend

No shopping on Shabbat? The blow landing on the Big Fashion Glilot complex

QatarEnergy's liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar March 2, 2026.

Explosion at Qatar's Ras Laffan gas facility kills 13, injures 66


Jewish leaders condemn Israel’s rejection of Ugandan Jews from immigrating

The ultimate ruling in his case could have far-ranging ramifications for Jews living outside of Israel.

Women and children carry Torah scrolls from an old synagogue building to a new building in Nabagoye, Ugandaz

Utah online newlyweds to petition High Court against Interior Ministry

Deri’s office has said that the Interior Ministry is conducting “an in-depth examination” of the wedding and registration process which he said the state has not encountered before.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

Convert’s nightmarish three-year quest for citizenship continues

From Baltimore’s notorious drug gangs to the Jewish State, David Ben Moshe continues to hope for Israeli citizenship.

David Ben Moshe together with his wife and child

500 members of the Falash Mura community set to come to Israel

The Interior Ministry and Jewish Agency officials are processing the Falash Mura immigration requests.

Members of the Falash Mura community in Ethiopia

Knesset panel tells Deri to wipe fingerprints from biometric database

Although cyber experts have said that there is no need for fingerprints to be retained as a countermeasure against fraud, Deri tried to convince the committee to keep them.

A man has his fingerprint scanned [file]

Interior Ministry suspends Jewish status of 2,200 children

One investigation questioned Jewish status of Holocaust survivor, and a Soviet refusenik

Israeli students at the Orot Etzion school in Efrat wear protective face masks as they return to school for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus, May 3, 2020

Gov't approves transferring funds to impoverished municipalities

About 78% will be given to Arab and Druze communities who were damaged by the coronavirus crisis.

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri

Municipal tax to rise by 2.58% in 2020

Musician Iyar Semel, 38, on his rooftop garden, where he grows herbs and vegetables, in Tel Aviv. Iyar planted an organic garden on his rooftop, with compost, vegetables, fruit trees and a shower, allowing him to merge his ecological lifestyle with the restraints of urban space.

Lebanon appoints first-ever female in charge of security in Arab world

Raya El Hassan was appointed as the interior minister after a nine-month government deadlock.

Lebanon's Minister of Finance Raya Haffar al-Hassan speaks during a news conference at her office in Beirut December 3, 2009. Lebanon may seek to borrow next year to help service existing debt and might also seek to reschedule some debts due in 2010 to benefit from low interest rates, Hassan said on

Fight over canceling residency of terrorist’s relatives goes to court

PIBA argued that emergency rules gave the interior minister the right to cancel residency statuses for clear and concrete security reasons.

Fadi al-Qanbar