Written by Ruby Ong

A Message from Daniel Sokatch Today, as I write this, is the 16th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, z’l. Like so many of you, I’ll never forget that awful day in 1995. Read more   NIF Intensifies Campaign against Bills to Limit Funding for Israeli Human Rights Groups NIF/SHATIL has mobilized to thwart two new anti-democratic bills, which seek to limit funding to Israel's human rights organizations. Read more   Remembering Yitzhak Rabin as Intolerance and Violence Grow More than 150 people packed into the Yitzhak Rabin synagogue in Rehovot last week to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the assassination of the Prime Minister. Read more   Court Compensates Israeli Ethiopian for Racist Insults from Bus Driver The Rishon Lezion Magistrates Court has ordered that Yadno Varka, a young Ethiopian Israeli, will receive $19,000 compensation for racial abuse and for being refused to be allowed to board a bus by the driver because of the color of her skin. Read more   Bedouin children’s strike wakes up education officials After parents’ desperate attempts to force their children’s schools to address grave health and safety hazards failed, parents of two schools for Bedouin children in Israel’s Negev called a strike. Read more   Share