Papua New Guinea plans consulate in Israel’s biblical heartland

Papua New Guinea is set to become the first nation to open an honorary consulate in the biblical heartland after inaugurating an embassy in Jerusalem earlier this year. Read more

Intel investing $25 billion in Israeli manufacturing facility

Intel Israel and Israeli government authorities announced on Tuesday morning plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Kiryat Gat with a $25 billion investment. Read more

Community support priority as Gaza bombing intensifies

The NSW government says it’s open to talks with multicultural communities to ensure adequate support as conflict and civilian deaths continue in Gaza. Read more

Israeli forces capture terrorists in schools, find weapons in UNRWA sacks

Israeli soldiers acting on intelligence engaged Hamas terrorists operating inside two UN-run schools in Gaza, the Israel Defence Forces said on Monday. Read more

Israeli strike on Syria kills senior Iranian general

An Israeli air strike outside the Syrian capital, Damascus, has killed a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, three security sources and Iran’s state media say. Read more

Netanyahu vows no let-up in war against Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep up the fight against Hamas terrorists while Palestinians have mourned more than 100 people who Gaza health officials say were killed in Israeli airstrikes. Read more

Gaza descends into chaos as Hamas staggers

Two incidents caught on video and circulating on social media on Sunday reflect how much Hamas has lost its grip on power in the Strip. Read more

Egypt floats ambitious plan to end Israel-Hamas war

Egypt has put forward an ambitious, initial proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war with a ceasefire, a phased hostage release and the creation of a Palestinian government of experts. Read more

Torah scroll, hidden during Holocaust, brought to Yad Vashem

A Torah scroll hidden in the attic of a synagogue in Poland that was ransacked on Kristallnacht was placed in the Holy Ark at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust remembrance centre. Read more

Holocaust, Hollywood, homeless: The incredible life – and bizarre death – of an Aussie rolling stone

Burying a complete stranger – let alone a child survivor of the Holocaust – was not on the itinerary for a group of Jewish Sydneysiders holidaying this week on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Read more

Islamic Jihad group visits Egypt as Israel bombs Gaza

A delegation of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group has arrived in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials “on ways to end the Israeli aggression” in Gaza. Read more

Knesset approves US$20m to secure Judea and Samaria outposts

The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the transfer of 75 million shekels ($20.8 million) in security funding for outposts in Judea and Samaria, amid accusations that Jerusalem has been neglecting the protection of citizens living in the disputed area since Hamas launched its current war against the Jewish state on Oct. 7. Read more

Five Gaza hostages found dead in tunnel

Five Israeli hostages killed in Hamas captivity have been recovered from an underground tunnel network in the northern Gaza Strip, the military says, showing footage of a white-tiled bathroom and workroom linked by dark, concrete-lined passages. Read more

“Pro-Palestinian” protestors disrupt Melbourne Christmas carols

The annual Christmas Eve Carols by Candlelight celebration at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl faced an unexpected disruption when a pro-Palestinian activist protest stormed the stage, capturing the attention of viewers during the live television broadcast. Read more

IDF discover Hamas bomb belts adapted for children

The Israeli military struck 200 terror infrastructure targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours and seized weapons belonging to Hamas, the Israel Defence Forces said on Sunday. Read more

Gadi Haggai, 73, first US hostage confirmed killed by Hamas

An Israeli-American is the first U.S. citizen taken hostage who has died in Hamas captivity in Gaza, a group representing the families of Hamas prisoners announced on Friday. Read more

Hamas says contact lost with group holding five hostages

Hamas says it has lost contact with a group responsible for five Israeli hostages being held captive in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli bombardment. Read more

Hamas fires massive rocket salvo at Tel Aviv, Central Israel

Hamas fired at least 30 rockets at Israel’s central region on Thursday afternoon, in the heaviest barrage in weeks. Read more

Israeli military completes takeover of Gaza’s Shejaiya district

The Israeli military completed its takeover of northern Gaza’s Shejaiya district, dismantling Hamas’s “core capabilities” there, the Israel Defence Forces said on Thursday. Read more

Antisemitism ‘context’ at Harvard costs the school another billionaire donor

Len Blavatnik has joined a “donor revolt” following Harvard University president Claudine Gay’s testimony before Congress that it depends on context whether calling for genocide against Jews violates school policy, Bloomberg reported. Read more

‘Tell the truth’: ABC office vandalised for second time

The ABC’s Melbourne office has been vandalised after red paint was splattered on windows and messages about the Israel-Palestine conflict scrawled across the building. Read more

Israeli singer Eyal Golan posts Moriah College on Instagram

Sydney’s Moriah College rendition of Israel recording star Eyal Golan’s “Am Yisroel Chai” has been posted on the singer’s own Instagram and reported in newspaper Israel Hayom. Read more

Hostages’ families step up protests amid reports of new ceasefire

Israeli and Arab officials have, over the past week, ramped up efforts to forge another ceasefire deal between Jerusalem and Hamas. Read more

‘What happened is not your fault’: Mother reaches out to soldiers who mistakenly killed her son

Iris Haim has sent a message to the soldiers who mistakenly killed her son in Gaza to know that she doesn’t blame them for the tragedy. Read more

Israel finds tunnels from Hamas leaders’ homes found

Israeli forces have uncovered a network of tunnels running deep beneath central Gaza City from properties registered to Yahya Sinwar and other senior Hamas organisers of the October 7 attacks on Israel, the military says. Read more

Gaza ceasefire talks as Hamas, Israel assert demands

“Very serious” negotiations are taking place on a second Gaza ceasefire, the US says, but Hamas and Israel’s conditions make the chances of a deal uncertain. Read more

Don’t drink Coca-Cola says ABC’s TikTok channel

National broadcaster ABC has removed a post on its TikTok account promoting the boycott of Israeli goods. Read more

Seinfeld visits Be’eri during solidarity visit to Israel

American Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld toured Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the Gaza border communities whose residents were murdered during Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught on the northwestern Negev. Read more

Rabbi addresses 500 at Victoria Police Academy

Rabbi Yaakov Glasman, Senior Rabbi at St Kilda Hebrew Congregation, was the keynote speaker on leadership and social cohesion in front of 500 Victoria Police cadets, supervisors, Academy leadership and police chaplains at the Police Academy this morning. Read more

Melbourne inner-city council votes for BDS

The inner-city Melbourne Darebin Council voted unanimously to seek ways to get out of contracts from suppliers supporting Israel. Read more

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