Culture Minister Miri Regev has been trying to receive an authority similar to the one the finance minister has, to retroactively suspend funding for cultural activities that 'contravene the principles of the state.' Now she has the finance minister on her side
The Ministry of Culture and Sports under Miri Regev filed 17 of these requests, with 14 other requests regarding the enforcement of the 'Boycott Law' going unheeded by the Treasury’s legal adviser
The Nakba Law allows the Finance Ministry to cut state funding to any institution that publicly observes Israel’s Independence Day as a day of mourning
Regev calls on Kahlon to withhold funds from gov't-supported institutions if they hold events which deny Israel’s right to exist: 'For how long will you give a pass to those who tar Israel's image as a cruel and racist country?'
Signs commemorating the Nakba could 'seriously disrupt public order,' according to a top French government official
As far as the Palestinians are concerned, if they leave the refugee camps or rebuild Gaza, their struggle will die. To advance the national cause – a full return to their land – the more they preserve the bad the better
We Israelis must face our part in the physical expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 and its symbolic weight for Palestinians today. It may bite, but it won’t destroy us
The fear of the Nakba lies in the inability to reconcile the conflict between the yearning for a pure Jewish nation-state and the realization that such a state can never exist
The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee of the Israeli Arab community has declared a general strike for Wednesday, which includes public schools in Arab majority areas
The Health Ministry in Ramallah noted that 27 people were injured in the West Bank, and one is in grave condition. Two Israeli border police officers were also injured during the protests