Three murdered at Shabbat dinner

The World Jewish Congress harshly condemned the terrorist attack on Friday night in the settlement of Halamish, in which a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated a home during Shabbat dinner and brutally murdered three Israelis. Read more

Victorian minister in water talks

Jaala Pulford, Victoria’s Minister for Agriculture and Regional Development, has visited the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot. Read more

Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara have visited the Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial in Budapest dedicated to Jews who were shot during the Holocaust and thrown into the river. Read more

Muslims riots continue in Jerusalem

Clashes erupted between Muslim rioters and Israeli police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday for the fourth consecutive day. Read more

Macron denounces anti-Zionism as a new form of antisemitism

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has applauded and thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for denouncing anti-Zionism as a ‘renewed form of antisemitism’, and for his pledge to ‘never surrender to the messages of hate’.   Read more

Netanyahu visits Budapest

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visitingBudapest, Hungary, where he will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and ministers in his government. Read more

Two Israeli policemen murdered by terrorist

Two police officers were murdered and a third is in hospital in serious condition following a terror attack by three Arabs from Um Al Fahum in the area of the Temple Mount. Read more

Holocaust survivors of Iasi death trains, pogrom and ghettos eligible for compensation pensions

Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has announced that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust era “death trains,” pogrom and subsequent open ghettos in Iasi, Romania will be eligible to receive compensation pensions.  Read more

Delegates meet the president

President Reuven and First Lady Nechama Rivlin have hosted a special reception at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem in honor of the athletes and supporters of the 20th Maccabiah Games. Read more

Egypt allocates $2.2 million to restore historic Alexandria synagogue

The Egyptian government has reportedly approved a budget of US$2.2 million for the restoration of the centuries-old Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria. Read more

Israel has experienced its best ever six months for tourists

For the first six months of 2017,  a record 1.74 million tourists visited Israel. Read more

A dream comes true for Rina

Magen David Adom’s “Make a Wish Ambulance” has taken a teacher battling with terminal cancer to her students’ graduation party. Read more

WJC condemns UNESCO decision to deem Old City of Hebron site in danger

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Friday condemned the decision of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee to deem the Old City of Hebron, including the Tomb of the Patriarchs within its parameters, as a ‘site in danger’ through emergency procedure. Read more

Changing the world

Three young Australians are among the 150 participants in the 2017 ROI Summit in Jerusalem. Read more

20th Maccabiah opening ceremony

Team Australia had the honour of leading 80 countries in the parade of nations into Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium into the Opening Ceremony of the 20th Maccabiah Games. Read more

20th commemoration of the Maccabiah bridge collapse

In 1997, Amanda Montag was nine weeks pregnant with daughter Jemima when she fell into the Yarkon River following the collapse a makeshift bridge carrying the Australian contingent. Four athletes lost their lives. Read more

Magen David Adom providing medical facilities for the Maccabiah

For the past few weeks MDA has been preparing to medically secure the 20^th Maccabiah events that will begin with a festive ceremony at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. Among other things, MDA, as Israel’s national rescue organisation, will medically secure all attendants and participants of the Maccabiah. Read more

Come to India, Moshe

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have met with Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were murdered in the 26 November 2008 terrorist attack on the Mumbai Chabad House. Read more

British royals to tour Holocaust sites in Poland and Germany

British royals Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will tour several sites memorialising victims of the Holocaust during a visit to Germany and Poland later this month. Read more

WJC decries UNESCO vote challenging Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem

The World Jewish Congress has denounced a UNESCO World Heritage Committee vote in favour of a motion challenging Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem, and urged member states convening in Krakow to vote against a Palestinian request denying Jewish historical ties to the Old City of Hebron. Read more

Palestinian Authority rebuilds memorial for Palestinian terrorist demolished by IDF

After IDF soldiers last Friday demolished a memorial in Jenin erected in honor of Palestinian terrorist Khalid Nazzal, Palestinian Authority (PA) activists built a new memorial stone at the same site the next day and constructed a second memorial for Nazzal in Ramallah. Read more

President Rivlin says all Jews have a special place in their hearts for the Kotel

President Reuven Rivlin has published an open letter following a number of letters and messages received by the President’s Office on the issue of the recent tensions and disagreements surrounding the Western Wall. Read more

The WJC emphasises that peace between Palestinians and Israelis must be reached through a direct diplomatic process and cannot be imposed by external parties

The World Jewish Congress has expressed its deep concern over a one-sided two-day forum being held by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the UN headquarters in New York, under the banner “Ending the Occupation.” Read more

New firewall developed at BGU to protect android phones from hardware security threat

Cyber security researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed an innovative firewall program that adds a missing layer of security in the communication between Android cellphone components and the phone’s central processing unit. Read more

Israeli actress Gal Gadot ranked most popular celebrity on social media

Israeli actress and “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot was ranked first on the latest edition of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top Actors list. Read more

First rocket fired into Israel from Gaza since March

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched retaliatory airstrikes on two Hamas terror targets in Gaza yesterday [Tue], in response to the first rocket fired into Israeli territory since March. Read more

Visas for foreign entrepreneurs at 12 innovation Landing Pads

As part of the Innovation Visas program, entrepreneurs may reside in Israel for a period of up to 24 months, during which time he/she may submit a request to the Israel Innovation Authority’s “Tnufa” support program. Read more

An extraordinary 900-year-old collection of women’s jewellery

So just how did 900-year-old rings, bracelets, earrings and hairpins come to be in the kitchen of a Crusader fortress tower in Modiʻin? The question may not be one of those in the local student’s next history exam, but it certainly occupies them as they participate in an archaeological excavation close to home. Read more

The bird sanctuary in the heart of a city

The  Bird-watching Centre in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park’s Rosh Tzippor Forest is  now reality thanks to JNF Australia and one of its major donors. Read more

Anatomy of a terrorist attack

23-yr-old border policewoman Hadas Malka was stabbed on duty in Jerusalem. Mohammed Abed al-Rahman was the Magen David Adom paramedic who stubbornly fought for her life…in vain. Read more

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