US ambassador meets Bennett

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with the new US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Richard Nides. Read more

Israeli envoy slams UN agency for discriminating between murder of ‘Israeli ctizens’ and ‘settlers’

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan sent a scathing letter to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres following statistics published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in which it differentiates between the murder of “Israeli Citizens” and “Settlers.” Read more

UN adopts three resolutions condemning Israel, ignores Jewish ties to Temple Mount

The U.N. General Assembly passed three resolutions this week that targeted Israel, which brings the total to 14 resolutions being adopted in the next month that single out the Jewish state. Read more

Gal Gadot movie becomes most-watched film in Netflix history

“Red Notice,” starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Ryan Reynolds is now officially Netflix’s most-watched film of all time, surpassing the previous record-holder, “Bird Box.” Read more

Bennett to Blinken: Nuclear talks must be halted

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has called for a halt to the nuclear talks taking place in Vienna between Iran and world powers. Read more

New German chancellor vows to fight antisemitism at event honouring Holocaust survivors

Incoming German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talked about Germany’s commitment to combating antisemitism at the annual International Holocaust Survivors Night (IHSN) hosted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Read more

Israelis lost in Ramallah rescued from attempted lynching

Two Israelis who mistakenly entered Ramallah on Wednesday evening were rescued by Palestinian security forces from an attempted lynching. Read more

Smart, suture-less wound dressing prompts healing, wards off infection

“Sutures? That’s practically medieval!” Read more

US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides visits Yad Vashem

The US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides and his son have visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem. Read more

Jewish Agency’s JReady network makes broad impact on world Jewry’s emergency preparedness

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Global KH-UIA award for Sydney community leader

Sydney communal leader Stephen Cordell was earlier this year honoured with an Order of Australia medal and now has received international acknowledgement for his long-standing honorary leadership as the only Australian to receive the prestigious Yakir Keren Hayesod Award. Read more

Facebook shuts down Hamas-linked network

Facebook has removed four networks from “Palestine,” Poland, Belarus, and China during November for violating its policy on Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB), the social media company stated Wednesday, including a Hamas-linked network. Read more

Yad Vashem slams Fox News host’s comparison of Dr. Fauci to Nazi Doctor Mengele

Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, reacted sharply after Fox News host Lara Logan compared Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, to Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, infamous for his experiments on humans. Read more

Tel Aviv ranked world’s most expensive city

Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city, according to the Economist, leaping from the fifth most expensive city last year to the dubious first place in 2021. Read more

US contributes to PA budget for the first time since 2017

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) general budget shows that the US transferred financial aid to its coffers in October, for the first time since March 2017, the last time the US did so under the administration of former President Donald Trump. Read more

‘You have the audacity to single out Israel for violence in Jerusalem?’ Israeli envoy slams UN’s anti-Israeli resolution

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addressed the General Assembly on Wednesday in a discussion on the “Question of Palestine,” in which the Assembly voted on three anti-Israel resolutions as part of an annual series of resolutions known as the “Palestinian Package.” Read more

Israeli luminaries receive Light of Israel award

Israel’s Foreign Ministry and Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll held a special ceremony in Jerusalem on Wednesday honouring a group of Israelis who “continue to share their light and Israel’s light with the world.” Read more

Bones of Herzl’s grandparents to be brought to Israel

The president of the Republika Srpska of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed on Monday to help exhume the bones of the grandfather and grandmother of Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism, and send them to Israel. Read more

A touch of Israel on the Gold Coast – a touch of Australia in Netanya

Following the naming of a beachside area ‘Netanya Park’ in Surfers Paradise, Israeli city Netanya is to name a soon-to-be-built suburb after the City of Gold Coast. Read more

Black Eyed Peas lead member defies Palestinian pressure to boycott Israel

Black Eyed Peas lead band member will.i.am said he would not get into politics after Palestinian activists pressured him not to perform in Israel Read more

On anniversary of UN decision to recognize Jewish People’s statehood, UN holds solidarity event with Palestinians

On the 74^th anniversary of the United Nations decision to recognize the Jewish People’s right to statehood and the partition Plan on November 29, the UN held only a solidarity event with Palestinians. Read more

Despite unprecedented revenues, PA still playing poor

Financial reports released by the Palestinian Authority (PA) show that its revenues during the first 10 months of 2021 were the highest in its history. Read more

First known Chinese-language dreidels produced for China’s Kaifeng Jews

In honour of Chanukah, the Jerusalem-based nonprofit Shavei Israel designed and produced hundreds of dreidels with Mandarin lettering for the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, China, as well as for 20 members of the community who have already made Aliya to Israel with the organization’s assistance. Read more

Egypt’s proposal infuriates Hamas: economic rehabilitation in exchange for long term truce

A Palestinian source has told TPS that Egyptian intelligence had recently offered the Hamas leadership to open economic horizons for it in Egypt and pursue a very generous passage policy at the border crossings, in exchange for a long term ceasefire with Israel, but Hamas sees this as interfering in its internal affairs and as an Egyptian bargaining chip. Read more

UK BDS group, high-profile authors back Sally Rooney boycotting Israeli publisher

Seventy high-profile writers, poets and playwrights from several continents signed an open letter expressing support for best-selling Irish novelist Sally Rooney, who refuses to sell translation rights of her new book to an Israeli publisher in solidarity with the BDS movement. Read more

World Squash Federation cancels competition in Malaysia after it bans Israel

The World Squash Federation (WSF) announced Monday that the 2021 WSF Men’s World Team Squash Championship, which was scheduled to take place in Kuala Lumpur in December, has been cancelled after Malaysia refused to admit the Israeli team into the country. Read more

Australia’s first private, women’s-only mental health hospital opens

Cabrini Health has formally opened the Lisa Thurin Women’s Health Centre in Melbourne’s Elsternwick. Read more

US Ambassador Nides arrives in Israel

The new US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides arrived at Ben Gurion airport on Monday to begin his tenure, ending a 10-month period in which there was no official US envoy in Jerusalem. Read more

Defence Minister Benny Gantz speaks on Iranian threat

Israel’s Minister of Defence Benny Gantz on Monday issued a strongly worded statement calling once again on world nations to recognize the growing threat of a nuclear powered Iran. Read more

NSW Police data reveal ISIS and Hezbollah flags displayed in state

Documents obtained this week by the NSW Labor Opposition through Police Budget Estimates reveal the ISIS flag – the black Jihadist flag – had been displayed in NSW on more than 300 occasions and the Hezbollah flag almost 50 times – since 2015 Read more

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