Australian mother featured in first app tailored for Jewish women

Brisbane mum Ilana Mendels was selected as one of the dozens of Jewish women from around the world to share their story on Yomm, a website and complimentary app launched by the Momentum organization. Read more

Jerusalem bombing victim still fighting for his life

While most of the victims injured in yesterday’s twin bombings in Jerusalem have been released from local hospitals, one continues fighting for his life. Read more

In security breach, Iranian hackers steal Jerusalem bombing footage

Iranian hackers penetrated a major Israeli security organisation to steal and subsequently publish surveillance footage that captured one of Wednesday’s twin bombings in Jerusalem. Read more

Israeli teenager killed, more than 20 injured in Jerusalem terror bombings

One Israeli was killed and more than 20 injured on Wednesday in two explosions at bus stops located near entrances to Jerusalem. Read more

Palestinians return body of Israeli Druze teenager

Palestinians returned the body of an Israeli Druze student on Thursday morning after gunmen took it from a hospital in Jenin the previous day. Read more

Kosher in Qatar: Gulf state makes effort to accommodate Jewish guests for World Cup

While Qatar can hardly be considered a friend of Israel, harbouring as it does Hamas and other Islamic extremists and pouring millions into the Gaza Strip, when it comes to Jews visiting the country for the FIFA World Cup, it has been very accommodating, contrary to early reports which painted the country as obstinately refusing to supply kosher food and prayer spaces. Read more

$2m promise from Victoria Labor

Melbourne’s Jewish Arts Quarter has welcomed a generous $2 million pre-election commitment from the Victorian Labor Government should the Victorian Labor Party be successful on Saturday’s election day. Read more

Remove the word ‘Nazi’

Lawyers for Victoria’s education department asked an expert to remove the word Nazi from a report on whether a school principal’s alleged anti-Semitic speech caused offence to Jewish students, a court has heard. Read more

Jerusalem bus stop blasts kill Yeshiva student and wound 23

Two blasts have gone off near bus stops in Jerusalem, killing a student and injuring at least 23 people in what police say are suspected attacks by Palestinians. Read more

15,000 Israelis in Qatar for the World Cup

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200 Haredi women to take part in development of IDF drone

Around 200 Haredi women software engineers from the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak will take part in developing unmanned aerial vehicles used by the Israeli military, Israel Hayom reported on Monday. Read more

Naftali Bennett headlines UIA’s celebrations for Israel’s 75th 

UIA Australia has announced that former Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, will be the guest of honour in Australia for its 2023 campaign gala events across the country. Read more

Ehud Yaari: “Dangerous Curve” for Israel ahead, post-election

Eminent Israeli journalist Ehud Yaari joined the latest Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) webinar, to discuss “Israel’s Election and the New Netanyahu Government”. Read more

JCCV shows its support

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has extended its support to former students of Brighton Secondary College as their legal case alleging incidents of antisemitism returns to court. Read more

Israel greenlights project to document Holocaust survivors’ testimonies

Israel has approved a proposal to allocate 3.5 million shekels (US$1 million) toward documenting the testimony of Holocaust survivors worldwide. Read more

PA Foreign Minister visits Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

The ambassador of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to Germany, Leith Arafa, published a photo in which he was seen next to the Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, during a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin last Thursday. Read more

Victorian Liberal leader says his party is “safe” and “centrist”

Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has issued a plea to voters to believe in his “safe” and “centrist” party, following days of damaging claims about extremist candidates. Read more

Far-right hinders Netanyahu coalition bid

Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to swiftly form a government have faltered as a prospective far-right coalition partner demands the cabinet role of defence minister. Read more

“Nazi” a no-no in Victorian politics

Leaders of the Liberal opposition in Victoria have slammed the usage of the word “Nazis” in the incumbent Labor party pre-election political bantering. Read more

Holocaust survivor, Hogan Hero Clary dies

Robert Clary, the diminutive Paris-born actor and singer who survived 31 months in Nazi concentration camps but later had no qualms about co-starring in “Hogan’s Heroes,” the American situation comedy set in a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, has died at the age of 96. Read more

Girdwood-Reich nets Israeli’s jersey

The Sydney Super Cup 2022 first match between Sydney FC and Glasgow Celtic FC at Sydney’s new Allianz Stadium was expected to be an uneventful one-sided affair with a win for the Scottish side on the cards. Read more

Religious leaders are “disagreeing well”

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Rabbis call out State Department for double standard on Ben-Gvir and Palestinian terrorism

A coalition representing more than 2,000 American rabbis criticised U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price for what it described as a double standard on support for terrorism. Read more

Former VP Mike Pence: Israel’s fight is our fight

“We stand with Israel because her cause is our cause,” former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said, addressing Tuesday night’s Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York gala in Manhattan. Read more

Three killed in a terrorist attack in Ariel

Magen David Adom confirmed that three Israelis were killed and another four injured in this morning’s Palestinian stabbing and car-ramming attacks in Ariel. Read more

Israeli-led study finds steep decline in sperm counts globally

An international study has found declining sperm counts among men around the world, reinforcing concerns of a looming fertility crisis. Read more

Diplomatic tit-for-tat?

Israel abstained from a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution demanding Russian reparations to Ukraine on Monday night. Read more

Daniel Andrews heckled in a Caulfield synagogue

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has spent the last few weeks visiting various Jewish institutions where he pledged money and grants. ahead of the Victorian election. Read more

Call for support

Yesterday I listened in complete disbelief and shock to a teacher admit the school she worked at was covered in swastikas in all the classes and corridors and also scrawled on some of the students’ knuckles and faces…writes Sharon Kuperholz. Read more

FBI to investigate death of Shireen Abu Akleh as Israel calls probe ‘serious mistake’

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May, Israeli media reported on Monday. Read more

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