Israel marks first post-Oct. 7 Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day began at sundown on Sunday, with the official state opening ceremony taking place at 8 p.m. in Warsaw Ghetto Square, Yad Vashem, on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. Read more

US push for Qatar to expel Hamas gathers momentum

American pressure on Qatar to expel the Hamas leadership is mounting as the Gulf state’s mediation of another ceasefire collapsed. Read more

Israel begins evacuating Palestinians from Rafah

The Israel Defence Forces began evacuating Palestinians in parts of Rafah today, ahead of an expected military advance on the city. Read more

PM ‘concerned’ by social cohesion after uni protests

Anthony Albanese is concerned about rising tensions on university campuses as student protesters clash over war in the Middle East and the foreign minister warns Israel against another ground invasion in Gaza.
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Israel vows military operation as ceasefire talks end

The latest round of Gaza ceasefire talks have ended in Cairo after “in-depth and serious discussions”, Hamas says. Read more

Rockets in Gaza kill three IDF soldiers

Three soldiers were killed and 11 injured in a rocket attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing. Read more

Prime Minister Netanyahu: ‘Capitulating to Hamas’s demands would be a terrible defeat’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday commented on the ongoing negations for the release of Israelis who have been held hostage in Gaza for the past seven months, calling media reports about them provocative and the cause of “needless suffering to the families of the hostages that are enduring a nightmare.” Read more

Turkey ban rules out Israeli wrestling team Olympics chances

The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) has barred a delegation of five wrestlers from flying to Istanbul for an Olympic qualifying event on May 9-13. Read more

Cairo talks continue but hopes for Gaza ceasefire slim

Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appear slim as Hamas reiterates its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly rules that out. Read more

Israeli government votes to shut down Al Jazeera

The Israeli government unanimously approved shutting down Al Jazeera’s news operations on Sunday, paving the way for authorities to revoke the Qatari network’s press credentials and confiscate its transmitting equipment. Read more

Arabs pushing for roadmap leading to Palestinian state within three years

Sixty foreign dignitaries from moderate Arab countries, convening at a conference in Saudi Arabia, jointly called upon the United States to chart a clear path towards the establishment of a Palestinian state within three years. Read more

Two more Israeli Oct 7 victims declared dead

Two more Israeli victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre were declared dead late last week—Elyakim Libman, 23, a security guard at the Nova dance music festival presumed to have been taken hostage but whose body was found in Israeli territory, and Dror Or, 49, who was kidnapped to Gaza from Kibbutz Be’eri. Read more

Jewish poet, paratrooper Hannah Senesh honoured in Budapest

Hannah Senesh (Szenes) was honoured on Friday in a ceremony at her birthplace in Budapest, Hungary. Read more

“Concern for the Future of Jewish Life in the West”

Tel Aviv University and the American Anti-Defamation League have published the Annual Report Antisemitism Worldwide for 2023. Read more

Red Cross official exposed as Hamas stooge

In the latest example of a deep-seated anti-Israel bias within the International Committee of the Red Cross, the head of the ICRC’s office in Algeria and director of the Libya subdelegation has been outed as a pro-Hamas shill. Read more

Who is your Holocaust hero?

On this year’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem launched its “Who Is Your Holocaust Hero?” campaign. Read more

Hamas negotiators begin Gaza truce talks in Cairo

Hamas negotiators have begun intensified talks on a possible Gaza truce that would bring a halt to the fighting and the return to Israel of some hostages, a Hamas official says, with the CIA director already present in Cairo for the indirect diplomacy. Read more

Hamas negotiators arrive in Cairo for Gaza truce talks

Hamas negotiators have arrived in Cairo for intensified talks on a possible Gaza truce that would see the return to Israel of some hostages, a Hamas official says, with the CIA director already present for the indirect diplomacy. Read more

IDF posts on Gaza border failed routine inspection on Oct. 4

A routine inspection of Israel Defence Forces posts along the Gaza border carried out 72 hours before Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught showed a severe lack of preparedness, Channel 12 reported this week. Read more

Rally at Sydney University passes peacefully

The “March for a Safe Campus” at the university of Sydney was a resounding success with more than 500 supporters defying the weather conditions and vocal opposition. Read more

Albanese meets Australian rabbis

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has met with orthodox rabbis from Sydney and Melbourne at Sydney’s Central Synagogue this morning. Read more

A message to world Jewry from Israel’s President Isaac Herzog

President Isaac Herzog yesterday issued an urgent message of support to Jewish communities around the world in light of the dramatic resurgence in antisemitism and following the hostilities and intimidation against Jewish students on campuses across the US in particular. Read more

Two-week reprieve on Orthodox army exemptions

Israel’s High Court of Justice on Thursday gave the government a two-week reprieve to present its plan to conscript the country’s Orthodox community into military service. Read more

Israeli researchers correlate biblical events with archaeological evidence in Jerusalem

Israeli researchers have successfully dated findings from the First Temple period, marking the first time exact science has been employed to correlate events mentioned in the Bible with archaeological evidence. Read more

#CancelHate

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has launched #CancelHate, a new digital campaign. Read more

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Meanwhile somewhere else at Melbourne University

Tensions have escalated at the University of Melbourne’s pro-Palestine encampment after the arrival of dozens of Israeli supporters. Read more

Israel’s UN ambassador says UN’s ‘days are numbered’

Israel’s envoy to the United Nations sharply criticized the global body on Wednesday, telling the U.N. General Assembly that the organization’s “days are numbered.” Read more

Jerusalem awaiting Hamas’s response to hostage-deal proposal

Jerusalem was still waiting on Thursday morning for a response from Hamas to the latest hostage-deal proposal, which U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday features “very important compromises” by Israel. Read more

Skeletons without hands, feet found under Göring’s home

Five skeletons missing their hands and feet were recently discovered beneath the Wolf’s Lair home of Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s No. 2 who served as commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe during World War II. Read more

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