Jeremy Sharon
He covers the myriad issues affecting the Jewish Diaspora, relations between the Diaspora and the Jewish state, the recent rise in antisemitism, and Israel’s fight against the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
Jeremy has reported from Moscow, Warsaw, Kiev, Brussels, New York, and Addis Ababa, on all these issues and others besides.
Jeremy also covers the plethora of religion and state issues affecting daily life in Israel, such as the status of religious pluralism in Israel; Women’s religious leadership; the battle over ultra-Orthodox enlistment in the IDF; splits in the national religious community; and Jewish visitation to the Temple Mount, amongst others.
In addition, Jeremy fills in regularly on the political beat, and helped cover all three elections in the marathon 2019 - 2020 election cycle, as well as the ongoing tensions in the current coalition.
New organization formed to give support to Jewish converts
Coalition calls to probe Netanyahu for ‘smearing Israel’s reputation'
Mass MK coronavirus quarantine nixes government legislative agenda
Entry ban on Diaspora Jews ‘moral disgrace’ says South African chief rabbi
Goldstein made his remarks as Israel is set to add more countries to its red list.
Senior religious-Zionist, settler leader Rabbi Eliezer Waldman dies at 84
Waldman was one of the founders of the Jewish settlement in Hebron, founder of Nir Yeshiva in Kiryat Arba and one of the founders of the Gush Emunim settlement movement in 1974.
A look at the PIBA's 'culture of suspicion and hostility'
INTERNAL AFFAIRS: Inside the problems at the Population and Immigration Authority of the Interior Ministry.
The saga of Ethiopian aliyah
In total, 8,000 Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, were brought on aliyah to Israel from Sudan in 1984 and would be followed by tens of thousands more in 1991's Operation Solomon.
Lobby to 'strengthen Diaspora’ launched in Knesset
A new lobby launched by the Knesset will focus on the problems of increased assimilation and declining attachment to Judaism abroad.
Azerbaijan to commemorate International Holocaust Day
Azerbaijan will become one of only a handful of Muslim-majority countries to mark the day.
Kahana calls for foreign Jews to be given separate entry track
The minister said such a step was required to strengthen the sense of belonging and closeness of Jews around the world to the State of Israel.
Ugandan Yosef Kibita denied right to aliyah again
Kibita converted to Judaism in 2008 in Uganda under the auspices of the US Conservative Movement.
Lapid indicates Western Wall deal will take time
Cabinet secretary denies that implementation will be delayed for ‘substantive period of time’.
Kahana wary over implementing Western Wall agreement
The religious services minister is reluctant to advance the Western Wall agreement due to political weaponization by the opposition, clarifying that he does not have authority over the issue.