Resignation

Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev will step down after 27 years

He told his staff he was leaving his position after a “thorough self-examination,” but did not give any other reason.

By Marcy Oster June 22, 2020 10:14 am

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Yuli Edelstein, the speaker of the Israeli Knesset, shown on an official visit to Warsaw in 2017. (Maciej Gillert/Getty Images)

Knesset speaker resigns a week after shutting down Israel’s government

Yuli Edelstein stepped down rather than accede to a Supreme Court order to call a vote on his replacement.

March 25, 2020 8:23 am

Austria’s far-right vice chancellor quits amid scandal. A Jewish leader calls it a validation for the community.

The rise of Heinz-Christian Strache’s Freedom Party had confirmed the Jewish community’s fears, the Jewish leader said.

May 20, 2019 10:56 am

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein submits resignation letter

By Marcy Oster April 30, 2019 9:13 am

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, a broker of 2015 nuclear deal, resigns

By Marcy Oster February 26, 2019 8:05 am

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Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman resigns over Gaza cease-fire

November 14, 2018 7:17 am

Knesset speaker refuses to sign lawmaker’s resignation letter written in Arabic

August 8, 2018 8:43 am

2 Druze Israeli army officers resign over nation-state law

July 31, 2018 7:35 am

Arab lawmaker resigns in protest of Israel’s new nation-state law

July 29, 2018 11:18 am

Georgia lawmaker duped by Sacha Baron Cohen resigns

July 25, 2018 11:10 am

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