Haim Katz is facing charges of fraud and breach of trust for allegedly using his office to advance his own financial interests as well as those of his friend, businessman Mordechai Ben-Ari. Katz denies any wrongdoing.
Aya Naamneh, 22, from the Galilee town of Arraba, had apparently fallen to her death while hiking in Ethiopia’s Danakil Desert on Saturday. Temperatures in the area reached 50°C (120°F), authorities say. The Foreign Ministry is assisting the family in ensuring her body is returned to Israel for burial.
For the first time in a long while, Israel must contend with heightened tensions in Judea and Samaria and Gaza. The recent terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria can be tied to Hamas' efforts to fan the flames but the Palestinian street in Gaza is still largely apathetic, and Israel must choose its responses wisely.
Central Bureau of Statistics says Israeli capital, home to 1 million people, has dropped from the fifth socio-economic cluster in 2004 to the second-to-last cluster in 2019. Majority of communities, neighborhoods in the lower socio-economic cluster are ultra-Orthodox, non-Jewish.
Muftia Tlaib blasts US President Trump for tweeting: "Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is Tlaib's grandmother. She doesn't have to see her now!"
