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WHEN THE TV news starts with a murder, people are relieved. This means that no war has broken out, no suicide bomb has exploded, no Qassam rocket has been launched at Sderot. Ahmadinejad has not test-fired a new missile that can reach Tel Aviv. Just another murder.  

The Jerusalem District Planning Committee may have been in a hurry to approve a plan for the construction of 900 more apartments in Gilo, but neither it nor Interior Minister Eli Yishai seems to be in a rush to advance the Jerusalem Outline Plan, the first plan to include the Arab as well as the Jewish neighborhoods of the capital since the 1967 Six Day War. One of the aims of the plan is to address the severe shortage of land for residential building in the Arab parts of the city, a shortage that has for  

In the continuing battle to prevent the deportation of 1,200 foreign workers' children, a few dozen protesters gathered outside Interior Minister Eli Yishai's office in the capital on Wednesday. Over the past month, 3,200 people have signed an online petition organized by Avaaz, an international social action site, and Israeli Children, an organization working to thwart the deportations, calling on Yishai to cancel the orders or resign. Avaaz and Israeli Children brought protesters to Jerusalem to sho

The 1,200 children received time and not status   -Eli Yishai

 

Opinion polls shows Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the top of notorious Tel Aviv officials perceived by the Israeli public as the most corrupt representatives. The opening session of the Israel-Sderot Conference on Social Issues heard on Tuesday the annual corruption index for 2008, which also showed left-wing Knesset members as the most corrupt, Ynet news website reported. The report comes months after the police recommended indicting Lieberman on charges of fraud, bribery, money laundering an  

JERUSALEM- Israel on Wednesday fended off criticism of its approval of hundreds of new homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem as France urged a resumption of stalled Middle East peace talks. "Freezing construction in Gilo is just like freezing construction... in any other neighborhood in Jerusalem and Israel," Interior Minister Eli Yishai, whose ministry issued the approval on Tuesday, told AFP. He was referring to the settlement in which the previous day Israel approved the addition of 900 new housing

Construction in Jerusalem cannot be halted and Gilo is in Jerusalem   -Eli Yishai

 

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is considered Israel's most corrupt minister, according to the results of a survey conducted Tuesday at the Israel-Sderot Conference on Social Issues. According to the poll, taken among over 550 people, Interior Minister Eli Yishai is believed to be the second most corrupt, followed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. Science Minister Bennie Begin, Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog and Knesset Speaker Reuven R  

Despite US pressure to cease building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem neighborhoods, the Regional Housing and Planning Committee on Tuesday afternoon approved the construction of an additional 850 housing units in Gilo. Interior Minister Eli Yishai signed the approval for the expansion of the southeast Jerusalem neighborhood. Following appeals by US Mideast envoy Senator George Mitchell and his team to freeze the plan, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said he refused to be part of a halt to Jewish and Ar  

Interior Minister Eli Yishai is standing firm in his position that the 1,200 children of illegal labor immigrants should be deported from Israel, and he says that his position is widely supported in the government and in Knesset. "The government ministers and the members of Knesset, without any exceptions, have told me that I am right that the 1,200 children should be deported," he said, speaking at Sderot Conference on Tuesday. The minister's speech was received with applause, particularly when he sa

The government ministers and the members of Knesset, without any exceptions, have told me that I am right that the 1,200 children should be deported   -Eli Yishai

 

The British National Party have recently praised Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai for his position on immigration, drawing critical comment from the Jewish Chronicle .