Netanyahu lauds elimination of Soleimani by US forces
January 4, 2020 by JNS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the elimination on Thursday of the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, by the United States. Read more
Success for Netanyahu? High Court blocks petition to disqualify him from forming govt.
January 3, 2020 by Benjamin Brown - TPS
Benjamin Netanyahu has been dealt a potential win by Israel’s High Court in the run-up to the March 2nd elections when it rejected a petition that sought clarification as to whether the Prime Minister would be able to be given the mandate to form a government, should he be successful in the coming elections. Read more
A home devastated by the bushfires
January 3, 2020 by Henry Benjamin
On what appeared to be a normal day, Cecily and Roger Parris left their home in Conjola Park in the South Coast of NSW on New Year’s Eve morning to visit the hairdresser in nearby Milton but their return to home was blocked as a ferocious fire had swept through their township destroying their house. Read more
Gazan man reunited with Jewish mother in Israel after 30 years
January 3, 2020 by Benjamin Brown - TPS
A 30-year-old resident of Gaza has been reunited with his Jewish mother after being abducted and taken to Gaza by his Arab father three decades ago. Read more
Warning: Climate Change
January 3, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
The subject of climate change is one which is guaranteed to generate plenty of heat regardless of whether one is a sceptic or a believer. Read more
Is Turkey trying to sabotage the massive new Israel-Cyprus-Greece EastMed gas deal?
January 3, 2020 by Ariel Ben Solomon - JNS.org
Tensions are reaching a new high in the eastern Mediterranean region after Turkey’s parliament approved a measure to deploy Turkish troops to Libya to support the U.N.-backed government there. Read more
Bulawayo
January 3, 2020 by Jeremy Rosen
In the summer of 1966, I was studying in the great Yeshiva of Mir in Jerusalem. One day, I received a call from Rabbi Professor Dr. Louis Rabinowitz, former Chief Rabbi of South Africa and then Vice Mayor of Jerusalem.
IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani killed in US airstrike
January 3, 2020 by Jackson Richman - JNS
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Defence announced. Read more
The struggle for the Mediterranean
January 3, 2020 by Dore Gold
Since it came to power in 2002 and especially under the leadership of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the AKP Party, which has ruled Turkey for nearly 20 years, has become increasingly preoccupied with Turkey’s Ottoman past. Read more
Israel, Greece and Cyprus sign agreement for $7 billion EastMed gas pipeline
January 3, 2020 by JNS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades have met in Athens in a seventh trilateral at which an agreement was signed for the $7 billion, 1,180-mile EastMed gas pipeline that will run from Israel through Cyprus and Greece to Europe. Read more
Litzman: Hadassah Australia adds its voice
January 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Directors of Hadassah Australia have given their strong support to the President of the Zionist Federation of Australia, Jeremy Leibler who wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemning the appointment of United Torah Judaism’s Yaakov Litzman MK, to the position of Health Minister in Israel. Read more
Tens of thousands of Jews worldwide ‘on the same page,’ celebrating 13th ‘Siyum HaShas’
January 3, 2020 by Dov Lipman - JNS
Tens of thousands of Jews around the world joined together on Jan. 1 to celebrate the 13th Siyum HaShas—“the completion of the Six Orders [of the Talmud]”—the culmination of a seven-and-a-half-year study cycle in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud’s 63 tractates are learned in sequence. Read more
Not SOS, use RARA
January 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Family lose their home in the South Coast fires
January 2, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Cecily and Roger Parris have lost their home and all its contents in the devastating fire that tore through Conjola Park this week.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry issues travel advisory to South Africa over high crime rate
January 2, 2020 by TPS-IL
Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday issued a travel advisory to South Africa cautioning Israeli travellers about visiting the townships because of the high crime rate in the country. Read more
Netanyahu requests parliamentary immunity from criminal charges
January 2, 2020 by Arye Green -TPS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening announced that he plans to request parliamentary immunity from the Knesset regarding the criminal charges he faces and will notify the Knesset Speaker of his request before the deadline at midnight. Read more
“The reputations of the Israeli justice system and the executive arm of government have been sullied”
January 1, 2020 by J-Wire News Service
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has written to Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu appealing to him to reconsider the appointment of Rabbi Yaakov Litzman as Minister of Health who is under investigation for blocking the extradition of alleged child sexual abuser Malka Leifer. Read more
High Court postpones decision on whether Netanyahu can receive mandate to form government
January 1, 2020 by Benjamin Brown - TPS
The Israeli High Court has postponed its decision on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be prevented from receiving the mandate to form a coalition following the next elections. Read more
Israel sees 70% increase in exports in past decade; exports to China increased 5-fold
January 1, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israeli exports increased by almost 70% in the past decade, the exports to China grew five-fold, and 2019 will break another record in Israeli exports which are expected to reach $114 billion, an increase of 4.5% compared to the previous year’s figures, according to a report by Israel’s Foreign Trade Administration (FTA). Read more
Happy New Year from Scomo and Albo
January 1, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Happy New Year messages from Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese. Read more
El Nino heading to Australia later this year
January 1, 2020 by Elana Oberlander
El Niño, which occurs when changing ocean conditions disrupt weather patterns, is in the forecast for 2020, according to German and Israeli researchers. Read more
Smile though your heart is aching
January 1, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s Rabbi Chaim Ingram boarded the Ovation of the Seas as he has for the last five years to conduct Chanukah candle lighting…its first voyage since the ill-fated excursion from the ship to White Island when its volcano erupted claiming 17 lives including some passengers and a crew member. Read more
Volunteer group Guardian Angels patrols Brooklyn after antisemitic attacks
A private, volunteer-based and unarmed crime prevention group said it would patrolling parts of Brooklyn, N.Y. on Sunday following a string of antisemitic attacks in the borough. Read more
Israelis welcome to attend 2022 World Cup, says Qatari official
January 1, 2020 by JNS
Israelis will be allowed to attend the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Hassan al-Thawadi, secretary-general of the supreme committee, which is in charge of the tournament, told ESPN earlier this week. Read more
