Terrorist killed, 17 arrested in IDF counterterrorism operations

IDF soldiers conducting counterterrorism operations in Judea and Samaria on Sunday night arrested 17 terror suspects and another was killed in a gun battle that ensued between the forces and terrorists during one of the operations. Read more

Four IDF soldiers injured in terror attack

IDF soldiers on patrol near the Arab village of Nebi Salah in the Benyamin area were injured on Sunday night by an explosive charge that went off. Read more

Hamas executes five citizens, two for collaborating with Israel

The Hamas-controlled Ministry of the Interior in the Gaza Strip announced Sunday that five residents of the Gaza Strip, including two suspected of collaborating with Israel, were executed. Two of the residents were executed by a firing squad and three were hanged. Read more

A special award for a special man

Zubin Mehta, who was the Music Director for the Israeli Philharmonic for 50 years, was awarded Australia’s highest honour, the AC, by General Governor David Hurley following Mehta’s amazing concert conducting the Australian World Orchestra. Read more

Antisemitism and bullying rife in Sydney schools

The antisemitism displayed in Sydney’s elite Knox Grammar as part of social media group established by students is spreading throughout the city with bullying of Jewish students in two Eastern Suburbs schools. Read more

Israeli, German presidents welcome compensation agreement for 1972 Munich victims

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday welcomed the compensation agreement between Berlin and the families of the 11 Israeli athletes killed by Arab terrorists at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Read more

Nazi salutes outside Adelaide Holocaust Museum

Social media have published a photograph of hooded men standing outside Adelaide’s Holocaust museum performing Nazi salutes. Read more

Adelaide student newspaper’s anti-Israel article removed from the web

Read more

ECAJ’s Alex Ryvchin visits Brisbane

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-Chief Executive Alex Ryvchin travelled to Brisbane this week to meet with state and federal politicians in partnership with the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more

Tel Aviv University brain cancer breakthrough

Dramatic results in Israeli glioblastoma research show that eliminating the astrocytes, a major class of brain cells, surrounding the tumours or inhibiting their ability to supply energy to the glioblastoma cells resulted in cancer cell death and tumor regression within several days. Read more

US providing refuelling tankers to Israel

Israel’s Defence Minister Benny Gantz visited an American Air Force Base on Wednesday, where he toured military fuel tankers made by Boeing that the US is providing Israel under an agreement reached in February. Read more

Germany, families of 1972 Munich massacre victims reach compensation breakthrough

The families of the Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Munich Olympics have reached an agreement with the German government regarding compensation for what the families claim was Germany’s mishandling of the terror attack and its aftermath, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Read more

Knox students chat sprouted hatred, racism

The chat included antisemitic, homophobic, misogynistic, child sexually abusive and pro-Hitler rants. Read more

Live at the Great

Read more

An award for Suzanne and Zehavit

This week professors Suzanne Rutland & Zehavit Gross were honoured with an award from NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet for their outstanding contributions to religious education in Australia. Read more

A new home in Ashkelon for Ukrainian children

After Six Months at the KKL-JNF Centre in Nes Harim, children from Ukraine are moving to Ashkelon. Read more

Antisemitism likely a factor in medieval deaths in UK

DNA evidence suggests that remains discovered at the bottom of a medieval well in Norwich in the United Kingdom belonged to victims of antisemitic violence in the 12th century. Read more

Two scholarships for 2023 Shnat participants

The Australian Zionist Youth Council have announced two Shnat scholarships available to 2023 Shnat participants affiliated with the AZYC. Read more

Israeli expert suggests new ideas for dealing with West Bank and Gaza

The latest Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council webinar featured Shany Mor, a former Director for Foreign Policy for Israel’s National Security Council, whose topic was, “From Jenin to Gaza: Managing the Conflict”. Read more

PM Lapid talks Iran deal with President Biden

Prime Minister Yair Lapid spoke on Wednesday evening with President Joe Biden, a long-anticipated conversation that focused on the renewed nuclear deal the Biden administration is about to sign with Iran. Read more

Israel bombs airport and other targets in Syria

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted an extensive series of strikes in Syria on Wednesday night, the country’s state media reported. Read more

Adelaide University student paper: “Death to Israel”

Habibah Jaghoori, the editor of Adelaide’s student newspaper On Dit earlier this month penned an article titled “For Palestine, There is No Ceasefire”. Read more

Netanyahu, senior officials receive warning letters following Mt. Meron disaster

The special stated-appointed committee that investigated the disaster on Log Ba’Omer at Mount Meron has dispatched warning letters to a long list of senior officials who were implicated in the responsibility for the catastrophe. Read more

World Jewish Congress mourns the death of Mikhail Gorbachev

 

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has reacted to the news of the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union. Read more

Israel sentences Gaza aid worker to six more years in prison

An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian relief worker on Tuesday to an additional six years in prison on top of the six that he had already served for funneling money to Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Read more

Two Israelis shot, wounded by Palestinians at Joseph’s Tomb

Two Israelis were wounded by gunfire on Monday night after entering the Joseph’s Tomb site on the outskirts of Nablus, according to the Israeli military. Read more

Former Mossad chief: ‘Iran lying to the whole world’

“The regime in Iran is the global financier of terrorism in the world. This regime calls for the obliteration of the State of Israel from the map,” former Mossad director Yossi Cohen said, as the Biden administration appears to be on the cusp of signing a renewed nuclear deal with Tehran. Read more

President Herzog staying at same Swiss hotel as Herzl

President Isaac Herzog and the First Lady of Israel are staying at the Grand Hôtel Les Trois Rois (Three Kings Hotel) in Basel, in the same room in which Theodor Herzl slept during the Fifth Zionist Congress in 1901. Read more

Neo-Nazis, far-right extremism on the rise

Neo-Nazism and other far-right extremist ideologies are a growing threat in Victoria, putting marginalised groups at risk of violence, a new report has found. Read more

Revived nuclear deal could see Iran armed with nuclear bomb in 2031, Gantz warns

Israel’s defence minister warned on Saturday that the progress Iran has made with its nuclear program means that certain aspects of the nuclear agreement currently under discussion, specifically the so-called sunset clauses, are “problematic.”  Read more

« Previous Page — Next Page »