Israel welcomes 20,000 Olim from Europe since outbreak of war in Ukraine
May 19, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Close to three months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, Israel’s Ministry of Immigration and Absorption welcomed 20,000 Olim (new immigrants) from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, as part of the historic operation for emergency reception of refugees from Ukraine and its environs. Read more
Israel starts to export cannabis seeds to US
May 19, 2022 by TPS-IL
After nearly a year of discussions, a shipment of cannabis seeds took off from Israel to the US on Tuesday night, the first-ever shipment of cannabis seeds from Israel to a foreign country. Read more
Queensland Hebrew radio show a rating winner
May 19, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
After only six months from its launch, Radio 4EB’s Hebrew radio show in Brisbane has become the station’s second most-streamed program. Read more
Bennett criticised, heckled while visiting family of fallen Special Forces operator
May 19, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett faced harsh criticism and heckling on his visit to the family of Special Forces operator Noam Raz at the community of Kida in Benyamin on Wednesday. Read more
Israel Climate Forum
May 18, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog have hosted the first convention of the Israeli Climate Forum. Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Pallbearers at funeral of Al Jazeera reporter were convicted terrorists
May 18, 2022 by TPS-IL
The funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, a senior journalist and one of the icons of the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, was a show of forces by the Fatah movement in eastern Jerusalem, and the pallbearers were convicted terrorists, TPS has learned. Read more
The angel of death?
May 18, 2022 by Henry Benjamin
It started with a comment by an unnamed Liberal quoted in The Saturday Paper describing former Prime Minister John Howard as “the angel of death” as he ventured forth to rally support for Josh Frydenberg in the battle for Kooyong. Read more
ABC complaints review falls far from the mark
May 17, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
National broadcaster ABC has announced it is appointing an ombudsman following a review of how the corporation deals with complaints. Read more
Jewish voters face stark choices
May 17, 2022 by Peter Wertheim
As reported on J-Wire, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) last month sent out questionnaires to the major parties and to individual candidates in the Federal seats of Wentworth, Macnamara, Goldstein and Kingsford Smith, with high percentages of Jewish voters, to gauge their policies and attitudes on issues of particular concern to the Jewish community, ahead of the May 21 election. Read more
OPHI analyses Buffalo attack
May 17, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
EU cuts its UNRWA budget by 40 percent
May 17, 2022 by JNS
The European Union’s 2022-24 UNRWA aid budget will be 40% lower than during the previous three-year period, the E.U. announced last week. Read more
UK to pass legislation preventing public bodies from engaging in boycotts
May 17, 2022 by David Isaac
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has resolved to pass legislation that will stop public bodies from adopting anti-Israel boycott resolutions. Read more
Buffalo get condolences from Israel
Israeli officials have conveyed their condolences to the US, to New York’s State’s Governor Kathy Hochul, and to Byron Brown, the Mayor of the City of Buffalo, following the racist shooting in the city which left 10 dead and wounded three others. Read more
Three years after being killed in secret op in Gaza, identity of the Special Forces operator revealed
May 16, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
On Sunday, three and a half years after Lt. Col. “M.” was killed in a secret mission in the Gaza Strip, the identity of the Special Forces operator was revealed – Lt.-Col. Mahmoud Kheir el-Din from Hurfish, a Druze town in the Galilee in northern Israel. Read more
Israel’s Independence Day celebration at UN features sustainable lab-grown meat
May 16, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan and the Israeli Mission to the UN hosted a celebration of Israel’s 74th Independence Day featuring sustainable meat and innovative Israeli protein substitutes, with about 250 participants, including dozens of UN ambassadors from around the world. Read more
Proposed US legislation to hold Jordan accountable for failure to extradite Hamas terrorist
May 16, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
Right before Jordan’s King Abdullah II is to meet with U.S. President Biden at the White House, the parents of an Australian-American-Israeli teenager murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2001 are hailing proposed U.S. legislation that would hold the government of Jordan accountable for its years-long refusal to extradite the Hamas terrorist who facilitated the suicide bombing. Read more
Israeli peace negotiator Uri Savir dies
May 15, 2022 by AAP
Uri Savir, a prominent Israeli peace negotiator and dogged believer in the need for a settlement with the Palestinians, has died aged 69, Israeli media reports say. Read more
Palestinian anger grows over death
May 15, 2022 by AAP
The Palestinian Authority says it would welcome the involvement of international groups in the investigation into the death of a journalist killed while reporting on an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. Read more
Palestinian terrorist shoots and kills Israeli counter-terrorism officer, volunteer paramedic
May 15, 2022 by Faygie Holt
A member of Israel’s National Counterterrorism Unit Yamam was killed on Friday afternoon after being shot by a Palestinian terrorist in Jenin as part of maneuvers by the Israel Defence Forces in a “complex and delicate” operation. Read more
UN to allow display of Knesset including references to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
May 15, 2022 by JNS
Jerusalem: the eternal capital of the Jewish people.* Read more
Neo-Nazi performed Hitler salute at Buchenwald: on trial
May 15, 2022 by JNS
A neo-Nazi in the United Kingdom is on trial for allegedly being part of a banned extremist group that performed a Hitler salute in the Buchenwald concentration camp, reported The Jewish Chronicle. Read more
Auschwitz survivor, 98, wins Simon Wiesenthal Prize for Holocaust education
May 15, 2022 by JNS
A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who became a social-media celebrity thanks to her great-grandson was one of four people to win a Simon Wiesenthal Prize. Read more
Swastikas stuck on Beth Weizmann’s windows
May 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Two men have been arrested after stickers with Nazi swastikas were stuck to the front of the Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Melbourne’s Caulfield South. Read more
Naftali Bennett’s International Spokeswoman, Keren Hajioff on the death of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh
May 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s International Spokeswoman, Keren Hajioff has made this video statement today regarding the death of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh. Read more
Naomi Levin joins the JCCV
May 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has appointed Naomi Levin as its Chief Operating Officer, the first in the organisation’s history. Read more
Abbas blames Israel for reporter’s killing
May 13, 2022 by AAP
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Israeli authorities are “fully responsible” for the killing of a veteran Al Jazeera reporter during clashes in the occupied West Bank and he’s called for an international investigation. Read more
PA refuses to cooperate with Israel on investigation of Al Jazeera reporter’s death
May 12, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has officially refused Israel’s offer to conduct a joint investigation into the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and has again blamed Israel for the incident. Read more
Sydney celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut
May 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
More than 500 people attended the annual communal Yom Ha’atzmaut cocktail reception in Sydney where NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet delivered the keynote address. Read more
Where do parties and candidates stand on matters affecting the Australian Jewish community?
May 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry wrote to the leaders of the Liberal Party of Australia, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the Australian Greens Party, as well as candidates for the seats of Wentworth, Goldstein, Macnamara and Kingsford-Smith, ahead of the upcoming federal election seeking their positions on policies and issues of particular interest to the Australian Jewish community. Read more
Israel will share findings on death of Al Jazeera reporter with other countries
May 11, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel will communicate its findings on the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh “in a clear and transparent manner to our American friends, as well as to the Palestinian Authority” and other countries, Defence Minister Benny Gantz announced. Read more
