WJC praises Netanyahu’s call for resumption of peace negotiations
October 2, 2015 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) today hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu’s call at the United Nations for the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table and lauded Netanyahu’s remarks that Israel and Arab states are cooperating against radical Islam. Read more
Iran: The best intentions don’t prevent the worst outcomes.
October 2, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken at the United Nations General Assembly. His address in full… Read more
A map for Julie
October 1, 2015 by Agencies
Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has prepared a special map for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to explain where Daesh and Assad are, and the difference between Daesh and the real opponents of Syria and Iran on the battlefield in the northern and southern parts of western Syria. Read more
Palestinian flag flies at United Nations for the first time
October 1, 2015 by Agencies
The Palestinian flag was raised at United Nations headquarters for the first time on Wednesday afternoon in New York City, accompanying Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the world body on the same day. Read more
Israel marks China National Day
September 25, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has addressed the China National Day Reception hosted by the Chinese Ambassador to Israel Zhan Yongxin, in Tel Aviv, marking 66 years since the independence of the People’s Republic of China. Read more
Education without borders
September 22, 2015 by Agencies
‘Education Without Borders,’ a special exhibition has opened at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, shows how Israel is alone among Mideast nations in providing continuing education for all hospitalised Israeli children, including Arabs and minorities, and Syrian refugees. Read more
Anti-Israel MP elected new leader of U.K.’s Labour Party
September 17, 2015 by Agencies
Far-left U.K. parliament member Jeremy Corbyn, who has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric and a controversial association with a group run by a Holocaust denier, has been elected overwhelmingly as the new leader of his country’s opposition Labour Party. Read more
Lithuania’s Jewish cemetery project
September 10, 2015 by Agencies
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has promised that a government project to mark, memorialise and maintain Jewish burial grounds in his country would be completed by 2017. Read more
French drop investigation into Arafat’s death
French prosecutors have announced that they have decided to drop the investigation into the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Read more
US$230 million for Israel’s Arabs
September 2, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Arab municipal councils will receive a one-time budgetary supplement of $230 million from the Israeli government before the end of the year. Read more
Israeli universities rank highly
August 20, 2015 by Agencies
Maintaining its #1 position in Israel and #3 position in Asia, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rose three positions to #67 among the 500 top universities in the world, in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities…and The Technion in Haifa is in the 77th spot but is ranked 18th in the world in computer science. Read more
Beyond Hamas: planned Abbas visit elucidates Iran’s lesser-known ties to PA
August 19, 2015 by Agencies
While Iran’s funding of the Palestinian terror group Hamas is well-documented, the Islamic Republic’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority (PA) is less frequently discussed. Read more
A letter to Ban Ki-Moon
Following increasing attacks on Israelis, Ambassador Ron Prosor has sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Read more
A new look at the Australia-Israel relationship
August 18, 2015 by Agencies
Australia and Israel’s complex relationship has received a fresh public examination with the release of the new academic collection, Australia and Israel: A Diasporic, Political and Relationship. Read more
Spanish music festival disinvites Matisyahu
August 17, 2015 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder expressed “outrage” and “utter bewilderment” on Sunday at news that a music festival in Spain had disinvited an American Jewish musician for failing to sign a pro-Palestinian declaration. Read more
91-yr-old champion
August 13, 2015 by Agencies
Three months after being named European champion, 91-year-old Israeli long-distance runner Semion Simkin has won the world championship for senior runners in Lyon, France. Read more
Tourism in Israel back to normal
August 10, 2015 by Agencies
One year after Operation Protective Edge, tourism in Israel is showing signs of recovery with the number of tourist entries in the period Jan-July this year returning to the level of 2013. Read more
Indonesia refuses visa to Israeli badminton player
August 7, 2015 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress (WJC) CEO Robert Singer has criticized the authorities in Indonesia for “unfairly mixing politics and sports” and denying a visa to Israel player Misha Zilberman which would allow him to compete in the World Badminton Championships held in the capital Jakarta next week. Read more
President Rivlin visits 4-yr-old attack victim in hospital
August 2, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin visited four-year-old Ahmed Dawabsha being treated in Tel HaShomer hospital following an arson terror attack on his family’s home in Duma, in which his baby brother Ali, was killed. Read more
Citizens of Israel: A wake-up call
August 2, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin has addressed a rally in Jerusalem which promoted tolerance protested against violence. Read more
Peres supports Pollard release
July 30, 2015 by Agencies
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has expressed his support for the pending release of Jonathan Pollard. Read more
Schindler’s List Oscar has a new home – Yad Vashem
July 24, 2015 by Agencies
Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig has presented to Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev the Oscar awarded to him by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Schindler’s List, Best Picture of 1993. Read more
1500-year-old scroll deciphered
July 21, 2015 by Agencies
Modern technology has made it possible for the first time to read the contents of a 1500-year-old burnt scroll that was found forty-five years ago in archaeological excavations at Ein Gedi, on the western shore of the Dead Sea. Read more
Netanyahu on Iran
July 21, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the Knesset following the U.N. Security Council’s approval of the Iran deal. Read more
Reform Jews condemn being labelled as not being Jewish
July 20, 2015 by Agencies
ARZENU, the world movement of Reform Zionists, condemns Israel’s Religious Services Minister for his comments in a radio interview that Reform Jews cannot be considered Jews, and calls for action to be taken to prevent any further statements like this being made by a government minister. Read more
Following the money: How much of Iran deal’s sanctions relief will fund terror?
July 17, 2015 by Agencies
Beyond the recently reached nuclear deal’s implications for Iran’s nuclear program itself, much of the fear about the agreement centres on how the substantial sanctions relief it provides to the Islamic Republic might open the floodgates to increased Iranian exporting of terrorism. Read more
WJC welcomes sentencing of Nazi war criminal
July 16, 2015 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has welcomed the verdict by a court in Lüneburg, Germany which sentenced Oskar Gröning to four years in prison for his complicity in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz in 1944. Read more
A song for Shimon
July 10, 2015 by Agencies
A moving tribute awaited former Israeli president Shimon Peres on Wednesday when U2 frontman Bono dedicated the song “One” to the Israeli statesman during a concert in Toronto. Read more
Hamas holding two Israelis hostage in Gaza since last September
July 10, 2015 by Agencies
The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has been holding two Israeli citizens in Gaza captive for the last 10 months, one whose identity was revealed yesterday upon the lifting of a gag order by the Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court. Read more
Playing tag in the gas chambers
July 9, 2015 by Agencies
Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), today criticized the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), Poland for reinstating an art installation that features a video of naked men and women playing tag in a gas chamber. Read more
