Judge rules University of Sydney academic who added a swastika to Israeli flag cannot be fired

A controversial Sydney academic who superimposed a swastika over an Israeli flag did so under intellectual freedom and could not be fired as a result, a judge has said. Read more

Abbas deputy admits PA security personnel work with terrorists

Israeli security forces launched an anti-terror raid against the “Lion’s Den” terror cell, including a bomb-making factory, early Tuesday. The cell was responsible for several terrorist attacks. Read more

Leifer trial swansong for Manny Waks

VoiCSA (voice against child sexual abuse) founder and CEO, Manny Waks, has announced that he plans to step down from his role as a public advocate in the context of child sexual abuse, including as CEO of VoiCSA. Read more

Ryvchin to represent Australia at Global Coalition

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s  Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin has been invited to represent the Australian Jewish community at the Global Coalition for Israel in Jerusalem early next year. Read more

Presidents meet in the White House

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has completed his meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office in Washington. Read more

US sanctions, designates 14 Iranian entities and officials for role in cracking down on protests

The U.S. on Wednesday announced sanctions and other designations on 14 Iranian entities and officials, in an effort to hold Iran accountable for its crackdown on the ongoing protests against the regime nationwide. Read more

UNHRC report condemned

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council and the Zionist Federation of Australia have condemned the latest biased report by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) unprecedented permanent “Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.” Read more

Shadow Attorney General slams Jerusalem reversal

Federal Shadow Treasurer Julian Leeser has addressed the federal parliament on the government’s reversal of the 2018 Liberal decision recognising West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Read more

Qld to open first Holocaust museum in 2023

Queensland’s first Holocaust museum will open early next year in Brisbane’s central business district, the premier says. Read more

Assistant Foreign Minister to headline ZFA Biennial conference

Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts will headline the 2022 Zionist Federation of Australia Biennial Conference, to be held on Sunday. Read more

Libs to make Jerusalem election issue

The federal coalition will take the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to the next election. Read more

Kanye West’s net worth plummets after Adidas cancels partnership for anti-Semitic comments

Kanye West’s net worth dropped from $2 billion to $400 million after Adidas ended its “Yeezy” brand partnership with the rapper on Tuesday, according to a report from Forbes. Read more

Rishi Sunak inaugurated as Britain’s prime minister

Rishi Sunak was inaugurated as Britain’s new prime minister on Tuesday, just days after fellow Conservative Party member Liz Truss resigned from the position and after securing the Tory leadership without a vote. Read more

Gantz offers early warning system but no weapons to Ukraine

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksii Reznikov, on Monday and offered to provide the war-torn country with an alert system for early warning of Russian missile and drone attacks. Read more

Five Palestinians killed in West Bank raid

Israeli troops have raided a stronghold of an armed group in the occupied West Bank’s second-largest city, blowing up an explosives lab and engaging in a firefight in which five Palestinians were killed, the military says. Read more

Parliamentary praise for The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies

Liberal Scott Farlow moved a motion in the NSW parliament supported by all parties praising The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and acknowledging recently retired president Lesli Berger. Read more

Vic Alhadeff elected director for Australian Republic Movement campaign

Former CEO of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, Vic Alhadeff, has been elected one of nine new directors of the national committee of the Australian Republic Movement. Read more

Netanyahu dominates Israel’s election

At a dead-end road in a crime-hit town in central Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu stands on a mobile stage enclosed by a glass wall, pledging through a window to restore law and order as the crowd chants “Bibi the king.” Read more

Major General Herzi Halevi new IDF Chief of Staff

The government of Israel has approved the appointment of Major General Herzi Halevi as the 23rd Chief of Staff of the IDF. Read more

$18 Million USD to erect new Albert Einstein Museum at Hebrew University

Israel’s government has approved the establishment of the Albert Einstein Museum at the Safra Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the cost of $18 million USD / NIS 64 million. Read more

Two Polish women honoured by Yad Vashem as ‘Righteous among the Nations’

Two Polish women, Renata Rostborowska and her aunt Kristina Wojwodzka were posthumously named “Righteous among the Nations” by Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum. Read more

Is Israel returning to the policy of ‘Targeted Eliminations’?

Tamer Kilani, a 33-year-old leader of the Nablus-based terror cell Lion’s Den, was killed in an explosion in the early morning hours on Sunday. Read more

White House ‘deeply disappointed’ by Palestinian pivot toward Russia

The U.S. administration has criticized Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas for seeking to involve Russia in the peace process with Israel, Axios reported on Saturday. Read more

15th century Swiss knight’s graffiti found on Mt Zion

The Israel Antiquities Authority’s Michael Chernin and Shai Halevi recently discovered graffiti dating back to the 15th Century on a wall in the “King David Tomb Complex” on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. Read more

PA claims 101 babies born to jailed terrorists

The Palestinian Authority (PA) claims that as many as 101 children have been born to convicted terrorists held in Israeli jails. Read more

Ali Khamenei: The West now fears our drones and missiles

The West formerly paid little attention to Tehran’s missile and drone technologies but now concedes that they are very dangerous and complains about Iran giving them to “so-and-so,” Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in a statement broadcast on Wednesday. Read more

Three Israelis charged with helping Hamas plot attacks

Three Israeli citizens from the North were charged on Thursday with a range of severe security offences, including spying for Hamas and gathering information on Israel’s Cellcom cellular network. Read more

To boost Abbas, Israel to let PA use helicopters

For the first time since the early days of the Second Intifada in 2001, the Israeli government is expected to approve a Palestinian Authority request to purchase helicopters for top PA officials’ use. Read more

Israeli election: first votes cast

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Operation Jacob: 100th yahrzeit for heroic medical serviceman and an overdue consecration

On 26 October 1922, while riding bareback to render first aid, the 31-year-old Captain Norman Packer was thrown from the horse and died of a fractured skull, and was buried in a cemetery near Cologne. Read more

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