25 years on, the Maccabiah bridge victims remembered

Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology Alister Henskens joined Australian ambassador to Israel Paul Griffiths in laying a wreath on Monday to honour the memory of the four Australians killed in the 1997 Maccabiah bridge collapse disaster. Read more

Walt gets to shake Joe’s hand

Walt Secord told a Courage to Care event  how strongly the impact of a ‘living witnesses’ of the Holocaust helps people understand. Read more

Majority of Israelis don’t trust Biden administration on critical issues, poll shows

The vast majority of Israeli do not trust the Biden administration to take into account Israeli interests during its negotiations with Iran over a renewed nuclear deal or in other critical matters, a new poll shows. Read more

Biden: ‘We’ve rebuilt ties with Palestinians, restored some $500 million in aid to PA’

The Biden administration has “rebuilt ties” with the Palestinian Authority and restored some $500 million in aid to it “without permitting terrorists to rearm,” U.S. President Joe Biden wrote in an op-ed published on Saturday night in The Washington Post. Read more

Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors elects Doron Almog as new chairman

The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors has elected Maj. Gen. (Res.) Doron Almog as the organization’s new Chairman of the Executive and Mark Wilf as its new Chairman of the Board. Read more

Israel welcomes 1 millionth tourist in 2022, in rebound from COVID-19

Just over four months since Coronavirus restrictions limiting entry into Israel were lifted on March 1, the one-millionth tourist in 2022 arrived on Sunday, indicating an apparent rebound of the industry heavily battered by the pandemic. Read more

Dear Prime Minister

The president of the Zionist Federation of Australia has written to Israel’s prime minister requesting the quelling of the attacks by some members of the orthodox community on worshippers at the egalitarian section of the Kotel. Read more

Israeli leaders discuss Biden’s upcoming visit with local counterparts

Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke on the phone Saturday night in honour of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and ahead of US President Joe Biden’s visit to the region this week. Read more

Maccabiah: Australia’s flagbearers announced

Sydney’s Johnny Pillemar and Lauren Ehrlich have named as Australia’s flag bearers when the team marches into Jerusalem’s Teddy stadium on Thursday for the opening ceremony. Read more

James Caan, best known for role of Sonny in ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82

Santino (“Sonny”) Corleone was a hot head whose life ended in a hail of bullets. Read more

‘True friend of Israel’: Assassination of Japan’s Shinzo Abe

Israel’s leadership expressed shock and sorrow following the assassination of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was considered a close friend of Israel. Read more

South Australia adopts the IHRA definition of antisemitism

As the elected representative peak body for Jewish South Australia, the Jewish Community Council of South Australia is pleased that the Legislative Council of South Australia recognised the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism on 7 July 2022. Read more

Palestinian-Israeli leaders meet ahead of Biden visit

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel’s Defence Minister Benny Gantz have met in the occupied West Bank to discuss security coordination ahead of US President Joe Biden’s visit to the region. Read more

PA prime minister claims Israel experimenting on bodies of dead terrorists

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh has claimed that Israel is “increasing the pain of the bereaved children by detaining the corpses of terrorist fathers killed in clashes with Israeli forces claiming these corpses are being used in the laboratories of medical schools in Israeli universities in flagrant violation of human rights, values, principles and scientific ethics.” Read more

JCCV training councils how to work effectively with Jewish community

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has been training staff at Glen Eira, Port Phillip and Stonnington councils to help them work more closely and effectively with Jewish residents. Read more

Abbas and Haniyeh did not want to meet, say observers

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’s political bureau, shook hands in Algeria on Tuesday, but according to analysts, they would have preferred not to. Read more

Polish priest posthumously recognized as Righteous Among the Nations

Holocaust survivor and decorated retired US Naval Officer Andrew Jampoler, was rescued during WWII along with his mother and cousin, gathered with his extended family this week at Yad Vashem, to honour Father Józef Czapran, a Catholic priest from Poland, who saved them during the Holocaust. Read more

Inquisition documentation discovered, digitalized

Nearly 500 years after the Portuguese Inquisition began, rare documentation of its proceedings and victims has been discovered in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at Jerusalem’s National Library of Israel and digitized for the first time. Read more

Yair Lapid meets French President Macron in Paris

Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid met with French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Read more

PA appropriates Israeli heritage site in Samaria

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has commandeered another archeological site in Samaria and has converted it into a “Palestinian Heritage Site,” as a monitoring organization warns of an irreversible loss of Israeli history and culture. Read more

Highland Park grapples with loss, shock and coincidence after July 4 shooting

In the peaceful suburb of Highland Park, Ill., the wounded and critically wounded are in treatment, and the suspect is in custody. So far, only the names of two of the seven victims—one more person was confirmed dead on Tuesday afternoon—have been released, but the mourning process has already begun. Read more

Netanyahu corruption trial hears of gifts

Australian billionaire James Packer “adored” former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and showered his family with gifts, a corruption trial has heard.  Read more

Chicago shooting: two victims reported to be Jewish

At least two of the victims are reportedly Jewish while the Jewish community fears that the number of dead among its members will climb. The Chicago suburb has a large Jewish community. Read more

Maccabiah: Magen David Adom well-prepared

The preparations and assessments for medical security for the events of the 21st Maccabiah, which will open on July 14 with the opening ceremony at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, have just ended. Read more

The IDF investigation to Shireen Abu Akleh’s death

The IDF has released conclusions made by its official investigation into the shooting death of reporter Shireen Abu Akleh during a clash between the IDF and the terrorist group Islamic Jihad on May 11, 2022, in Jenin. Read more

US government finds no evidence who fired bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh

The United States government issued a ruling on the bullet that was said to have been the one that killed A.P. reporter Shireen Abu Akleh during a clash between the IDF and the terrorist group Islamic Jihad on May 11, 2022, in Jenin. Read more

Israel and Poland restore relations after Holocaust-related spat

President Isaac Herzog has discussed with Polish President Andrzej Duda “the promotion of their countries’ bilateral relations” and agreed to restore the relations “to their proper course”. Read more

Mazal Tov! Quentin Tarantino, wife Daniella welcome new girl

American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and his wife, Israeli singer Daniela Pick, welcomed a baby girl to the world on Sunday. Read more

Yair Lapid meets Deborah Lipstadt

Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid has met with US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt. Read more

Australian professionals attend Israel Cyber Week

The Israel Trade and Economic Commission in Sydney and the Trans-Tasman Business Circle have taken a business delegation of 18 cyber security professionals from Australia and New Zealand to Tel Aviv. Read more

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