IDF recruiting reserve battalions amid security tensions

The IDF has announced it has decided to recruit reserve battalions in the coming weeks amid existing security tensions and a fear of further deterioration. Read more

On Yom HaShoah eve, Muslims on Temple Mount call for massacre of Jews

Muslims gathering at the Temple Mount on Wednesday night for the Laylat al-Qadr events marched while calling for the massacre of Jews, as the State of Israel commenced with events marking Yom HaShoah, its national Holocaust remembrance day. Read more

Deves accepts invite to Jewish Museum

Controversial Liberal candidate Katherine Deves has accepted an offer to visit the Sydney Jewish Museum following comments she made comparing her anti-transgender lobbying to opponents of the Holocaust. Read more

Glen Eira Council adopts the IHRA definistion of antisemitism

Following a scare that prompted creating a petition, the Glen Eira Council passed the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism on Tuesday evening with a 6-1 vote in favour. Read more

Antisemitism peaked globally in 2021

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Centre for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Humanities has published its 28th Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide. Read more

Bullet in the mail for Prime Minister Bennett and his family

Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett has received a death threat in the mail levelled at both himself and his family. Read more

IAF bombs targets in Syria, four soldiers killed – report

The Israeli Air Force (AIF) carried out an airstrike in the vicinity of Damascus on Monday night, during which four Syrian soldiers were killed, Syria’s state media reported. Read more

Israel welcomes 15,000 from Europe since outbreak of war in Ukraine

Some two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, Israel’s Ministry of Immigration and Absorption welcomed about 8,800 Olim (new immigrants) from Ukraine, about 5,800 from Russia, and about 400 from Belarus, as part of the historic operation for emergency reception of refugees from Ukraine and its environs. Read more

Wendy Sharpe: Site Unseen

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‘A small step for Man, a big step for Israel’: Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe returns to Earth

The second Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe and the crew of the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down off the coast of Florida on Monday night, after more than two weeks in space. Read more

Arab-Israeli organisation to mark Holocaust Day in Auschwitz in Arabic

The Arab-Israeli “Together Vouch for Each Other” organization has dispatched a delegation that will mark Yom HaShoah, in Auschwitz in a special ceremony in Arabic, the first of its kind. Read more

World Jewish popluation still below 1939 figures

The number of Jews worldwide is 1.4m less than it was in 1939. Read more

Holocaust memories at the president’s home

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog have hosted a special Remembrance in the Living Room event at the President’s Residence. Read more

ANZAC Day in Jerusalem

Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple addressed the ANZAC  dawn service a the Australian War Cemetery at Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. Read more

IDF shells targets in Lebanon in response to rocket attack

IDF artillery shelled targets in southern Lebanon on Sunday night in response to a rocket attack from the area earlier in the night. Read more

PA Imam calls to exterminate Jews

An Imam in the Palestinian Authority (PA) led a prayer in the Al-Ain Mosque in El-Bireh, near Ramallah, last week broadcasted on PA TV in honour of the Muslim month of Ramadan, during which he called for the extermination of Jews. Read more

Glen Eira Council to vote an IHRA definition

On Tuesday, Melbourne’s Glen Eira Council is to vote on adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Read more

Israel closes border with Gaza after rocket attacks

Israel announced over the weekend it was shuttering the Erez Crossing from the Gaza Strip and barring the entry of Gazans into the country following several rockets attacks. Read more

Israeli police action on Temple Mount came after coordination with Egypt and Jordan

Israel’s actions on the Temple Mount last week took place after Israel notified Egypt and Jordan, a senior Palestinian Authority source said. Read more

Absence in UN of condemnation of rocket attacks

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday evening and expressed his disappointment over the international community’s failure to condemn the recent rockets attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israel. Read more

Police report: Rioting within the Al-Aqsa Mosque

At the end of the Fajr prayer on the Temple Mount this morning (Thursday), dozens of lawbreakers and masked men rioted and disturbed the peace with severe violence, as they have done in recent days. Read more

Ukrainian refugees to participate in the March of the Living to Auschwitz

After a two-year hiatus due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the March of the Living will return this year, in-person, on a limited basis with 2,500 participants from 25 countries including the UK, UAE, Israel, USA, Austria, Germany. Read more

Melbourne’s The Jewish Holocaust Centre gets a new name

Only months before reopening following a three-year major redevelopment, the Jewish Holocaust Centre announces a transition to the name Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) accompanied by a logo and refined look from late April 2022. Read more

Bennett buckles to Muslim violence, shutters Temple Mount for Jews

Israel’s government, led by Naftali Bennett, has announced that it will block the entry of Jews to the Temple mount for two weeks until the conclusion of the Muslim month of Ramadan, apparently buckling to pressure from his Islamist coalition members, pressure from Arab countries, and violence from Muslim rioters at the holy site. Read more

A seder in Odessa

While tens of thousands of Jews have fled Ukraine since the start of the war, the majority of Jews still remain.

Most elderly Jews are too frail to leave and do not want to be split up from their family or leave the only home they know. For some, the journey out of the country is simply too terrifying a prospect or it is simply too dangerous to venture out.

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Israel emphasizes ‘need for international support for returning calm to Jerusalem’

Israel’s leadership engaged in a flurry of phone calls and diplomatic activity after facing heavy criticism from Arab and Muslim countries over Israel’s presence on the Temple Mount. Read more

A letter to Zoe Daniels

A failure to respond to his direct letter to the Independent candidate for Goldstein former ABC journalist Zoe Daniels has prompted Rabbi James Kennard to write n open letter to her on Facebook. Read more

Holocaust survivor, 91, perishes in store basement in Mariupol

As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?” Read more

Israel fires at Hamas target after attack

Israel has fired on a target in the Gaza Strip, in response to a rocket attack, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says. Read more

Iron Dome battery intercepts rocket launched from Gaza over Israel’s south

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at Israel on Monday night, triggering warning sirens in Israeli communities across the border. The Israel Defence Forces said an Iron Dome air-defence battery successfully intercepted the projectile in mid-air. Read more

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