Agencies, Author at J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/author/agencies/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:09:02 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Police arrest 200 at London Palestine Action ban rally https://www.jwire.com.au/police-arrest-200-at-london-palestine-action-ban-rally/ https://www.jwire.com.au/police-arrest-200-at-london-palestine-action-ban-rally/#respond Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:09:02 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=179661 UK police have made more than 200 arrests at a London mass protest against the ban on Palestine Action. Police have so far arrested 212 people during a mass protest against the ban on Palestine Action in central London. The Metropolitan Police confirmed all of the arrests made during the demonstration at Trafalgar Square are […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/police-arrest-200-at-london-palestine-action-ban-rally/feed/ 0 179661 Iran threatens to target Israeli and US universities https://www.jwire.com.au/iran-threatens-to-target-israeli-and-us-universities/ https://www.jwire.com.au/iran-threatens-to-target-israeli-and-us-universities/#respond Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:02:00 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=179269 The clock is ticking to when Iran says it will hit US and Israeli universities in the Middle East unless Washington condemns the bombing of Iran’s universities. Iran is threatening to attack Israeli and US universities in the region, the Fars news agency, which is closely linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, is reporting. […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/iran-threatens-to-target-israeli-and-us-universities/feed/ 0 179269 Iran retaliates striking Tel Aviv with cluster warheads https://www.jwire.com.au/iran-retaliates-striking-tel-aviv-with-cluster-warheads/ https://www.jwire.com.au/iran-retaliates-striking-tel-aviv-with-cluster-warheads/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:33:02 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=178829 Iran has used cluster warheads to attack on Tel Aviv, in retaliation for Israel’s killing of the Islamic Republic’s powerful security chief Ali Larijani. An elderly couple in their 70s were killed early Wednesday when cluster munitions fired from Iran struck a residential building in the central Israeli city of Ramat Gan on Wednesday morning. […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/iran-retaliates-striking-tel-aviv-with-cluster-warheads/feed/ 0 178829 Gunman shot dead after crashing truck into US synagogue https://www.jwire.com.au/gunman-shot-dead-after-crashing-truck-into-us-synagogue/ https://www.jwire.com.au/gunman-shot-dead-after-crashing-truck-into-us-synagogue/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:49:15 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=178646 An armed man has rammed his vehicle into a synagogue in Michigan in what federal investigators said was a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old naturalised US citizen born in Lebanon, was fatally shot by security personnel after ramming his truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield township […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/gunman-shot-dead-after-crashing-truck-into-us-synagogue/feed/ 0 178646 President Isaac Herzog visited wounded victims of the Bet Shemesh attack https://www.jwire.com.au/president-isaac-herzog-visited-wounded-victims-of-the-bet-shemesh-attack/ https://www.jwire.com.au/president-isaac-herzog-visited-wounded-victims-of-the-bet-shemesh-attack/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:09:51 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=178244 Israel’s President Herzog has met with those wounded in the Iranian missile attack on Bet Shemesh, who are currently undergoing treatment at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem. The President was received by the Director-General of the medical centre, Prof. Yoram Weiss, and the Director-General of Hadassah Women’s Organisation, Gideon Meir who briefed him on […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/president-isaac-herzog-visited-wounded-victims-of-the-bet-shemesh-attack/feed/ 0 178244 Trump attacks Herzog in row over Netanyahu pardon https://www.jwire.com.au/trump-attacks-herzog-in-row-over-netanyahu-pardon/ https://www.jwire.com.au/trump-attacks-herzog-in-row-over-netanyahu-pardon/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:23:25 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=177701 US President Donald Trump has ramped up pressure on Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, who is accused of corruption. A verbal attack by US President Donald Trump on Israeli President Isaac Herzog is causing tensions in Israel. Trump had told reporters at the White House that Herzog was “disgraceful” and should be […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/trump-attacks-herzog-in-row-over-netanyahu-pardon/feed/ 0 177701 US names Rubio, Tony Blair, Kushner to Gaza board https://www.jwire.com.au/us-names-rubio-tony-blair-kushner-to-gaza-board/ https://www.jwire.com.au/us-names-rubio-tony-blair-kushner-to-gaza-board/#respond Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:19:25 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=176603 The White House has announced some members of a so-called “Board of Peace” to supervise the temporary governance of Gaza, which has been under a fragile ceasefire since October. The names include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump’s special ⁠envoy Steve Witkoff, former British prime minister Tony Blair and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/us-names-rubio-tony-blair-kushner-to-gaza-board/feed/ 0 176603 The remains returned last night belong to Lior Rudaeff – he fell defending others https://www.jwire.com.au/the-remains-returned-last-night-belong-to-lior-rudaeff-he-fell-defending-others/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-remains-returned-last-night-belong-to-lior-rudaeff-he-fell-defending-others/#respond Sun, 09 Nov 2025 07:53:30 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=174040 The Prime Minister’s Office announced that the remains of a hostage returned by Hamas terrorists in Gaza on Friday, and examined by the Institute of Forensic Medicine, were those of Lior Rudaeff, aged 61 on 7 October 2023. ‘IDF representatives have informed his family that their loved one has been returned to Israel and that […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-remains-returned-last-night-belong-to-lior-rudaeff-he-fell-defending-others/feed/ 0 174040 Israel receives two more hostage bodies from Red Cross https://www.jwire.com.au/israel-receives-two-more-hostage-bodies-from-red-cross/ https://www.jwire.com.au/israel-receives-two-more-hostage-bodies-from-red-cross/#respond Sun, 19 Oct 2025 07:03:00 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=173406 The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has handed over two more bodies of presumed Israeli hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Israel said it had received two more hostage bodies late on Saturday, meaning 12 out of 28 bodies have been handed over to Israel under a US-brokered ceasefire and hostage deal agreed […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/israel-receives-two-more-hostage-bodies-from-red-cross/feed/ 0 173406 Gaza-Egypt border crossing to stay closed https://www.jwire.com.au/gaza-egypt-border-crossing-to-stay-closed/ https://www.jwire.com.au/gaza-egypt-border-crossing-to-stay-closed/#respond Sun, 19 Oct 2025 06:30:02 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=173402 The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain closed until further notice, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, adding its reopening will depend on Hamas handing over the bodies of more dead hostages, as the two sides trade blame over ceasefire violations. Netanyahu’s statement came shortly after the Palestinian embassy in Egypt announced […]

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