Appearing at the Australian Open

Some names to follow as the 2022 Australian Open tennis championships start tomorrow in Melbourne. Read more

Update: Hostages taken at US synagogue, one freed

Police are negotiating with a man believed to have taken people hostage at a synagogue in Texas during a religious service that was being broadcast online. Read more

Israel minister has virus after fourth jab

Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and will self-isolate but continue working from home. Read more

Hostages taken at Texas synagogue

Police are negotiating with a man believed to have taken people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, during a service that was being broadcast online. Read more

BDS: Apologies and declining funds

The Sydney Festival BDS affair trundles along well after the last performance sponsored by the Israeli embassy closed its run on Sunday. Read more

Israel aims to test BriLife vaccine candidate as booster dose

Israel is preparing to test its novel coronavirus vaccine candidate, BriLife, as a booster dose, NRx Pharmaceuticals reported this week. Read more

Aussie cyclist lands last-minute pro cycling deal with Israeli team

Australian Simon Clarke has returned to Europe after the Israel-Premier Tech team rescued his professional cycling career by signing him to a one-year deal. Read more

Bennett’s coalition experiences ‘meltdown,’ loses eight votes at the Knesset

The Coalition, head by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, suffered several significant political defeats on Wednesday evening at the Knesset’s plenum when it lost by eight votes to the Opposition. Read more

Israeli scientists discover supernova explosion of Wolf-Rayet star

Israeli scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a rare type of exploding star that has never been observed before, according to a report published on Wednesday in the peer-reviewed British weekly scientific journal Nature. Read more

Israeli PM Bennett talks ‘regional security’ with Russian President Putin

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, in a conversation described by Bennett’s office as “good.” Read more

Two IDF officers killed in shooting accident

Two IDF officers, commanders in an elite unit, were mistakenly shot and killed by their comrade on Wednesday night in an apparent case of misidentification. Read more

Amazon denounced for selling, streaming original Nazi-propaganda films

Americans Against Anti-Semitism has asked Amazon to remove from its platform more than 30 Nazi propaganda films that are available for purchase and streaming. Read more

Former First Lady Aura Herzog is laid to rest at the Great Leaders of the Nation Plot on Mount Herzl

The late Mrs Aura Herzog, mother of President Isaac Herzog and widow of the sixth President of Israel Chaim Herzog, was laid to rest today at a funeral service at the Great Leaders of the Nation Plot on Mount Herzl. Read more

Shin Bet exposes Iranian recruitment of 5 Israelis who spied for ‘Rambod’

A number of Israeli citizens were recruited by the Iranian intelligence to carry out missions within the State of Israel and were recently exposed and arrested by the police, the Shin Bet security agency revealed Wednesday. Read more

Israeli planting in Negev is ‘Mansour Abbas’ most significant test,’ Islamic movement says

The clashes in the Negev resumed Wednesday morning and continued for the second day in a row. Residents of the unrecognized Bedouin villages worked to prevent the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) tractors from preparing the land for planting. Read more

IDF cancels training, malls scale back operations, amid spike in Omicron cases

The ministerial committee on fighting the coronavirus convened on Tuesday night for the first time in three weeks to discuss “the continued effort to combat the Omicron strain” as the virus continued to cause disarray in the country. Read more

Bedouin riot, try to derail train, over JNF planting in the Negev

Bedouin clans rioted in the northern Negev on Tuesday night, tried to derail a train, and clashed with police, following JNF planting of trees on land the Al-Atrash clan claims as its own. Read more

IDF Commando Brigade prepares operating rooms to be set up in enemy territory

The Commando Brigade of the Israel Defence Forces has recently established a unit that can set up a field hospital in enemy territory after being airlifted to any location, the military said on Tuesday. Read more

Holocaust a ‘minor matter,’ right-wing Romanian party claims

A recent statement by the right-wing, populist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party that Romania’s school system should cut back on Holocaust education and focus on “Romanian national values” has caused an uproar in the eastern European country. Read more

Israel’s UN delegation seeks more Israelis in the world body

Israel’s delegation to the United Nations has been working in recent weeks to increase the number of Israelis employed at the world body’s headquarters in New York. Read more

Polish diplomat fired after calling country’s Holocaust speech law ‘stupid’

A Polish diplomat has reportedly been fired after calling his own government’s laws regarding speech centred around the Holocaust “stupid.” Read more

Over 11,000 IDF Soldiers infected with Corona or are in quarantine

More than 11,000 IDF servicemen have been infected with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) or are in quarantine, placing a strain on the military. Special and crucial units have moved to operating in capsules to minimize the possibility of broad infection. Read more

Netanyahu files police complaint after receiving death threat

Israeli opposition leader and former prime minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has filed a police complaint after receiving a death threat against himself and members of his family. Read more

Geoff Lipshut heads Australia’s delegation at the Winter Olympics

Melbourne’s Geoff Lipshut will head off to Beijing shortly as Chef de Mission of Australia’s Winter Olympics delegation. Read more

Armed procession in UNRWA camp

The Jerusalem-based Bedein Centre has written to the Head of the Australian Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority on a Fatah commemoration held in the UNRWA-funded Deheishe refugee camp. Read more

Pre-war Vilna online

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBVOCP), a historic 7-year, $7 million initiative to process, conserve and digitize YIVO’s divided pre-war library and archival collections. Read more

Aura Herzog, mother of the President and wife of the former president, passes at 97

The Beit Hanasi (President’s House) announced this morning the passing of the Aura Herzog, the mother of President Isaac Herzog and the wife of the late President Haim Herzog, Israel’s sixth president. Read more

Lapid and French President Macron discusses Iran nuclear talks, Israel’s demand to ‘put pressure on Iran’

Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid held “a long conversation” on Saturday night with French President Emmanuel Macron on the “regional challenges, the nuclear talks and Israel’s demand to put pressure on Iran, and relations between Israel and the European Union.” Read more

Clarke could be closing on cycling deal in Israel

Simon Clarke’s last-minute scramble to secure a new pro cycling contract could be about to pay off. Read more

Israel spirals into chaos as Omicron variant runs rampant

Israel has descended into apparent chaos and mass confusion as the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Variant is ripping through the country and the government appears to have given up on confronting the challenge. Read more

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