Visas for foreign entrepreneurs at 12 innovation Landing Pads
June 22, 2017 by Agencies
As part of the Innovation Visas program, entrepreneurs may reside in Israel for a period of up to 24 months, during which time he/she may submit a request to the Israel Innovation Authority’s “Tnufa” support program. Read more
An extraordinary 900-year-old collection of women’s jewellery
June 21, 2017 by Agencies
So just how did 900-year-old rings, bracelets, earrings and hairpins come to be in the kitchen of a Crusader fortress tower in Modiʻin? The question may not be one of those in the local student’s next history exam, but it certainly occupies them as they participate in an archaeological excavation close to home. Read more
The bird sanctuary in the heart of a city
June 21, 2017 by Agencies
The Bird-watching Centre in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park’s Rosh Tzippor Forest is now reality thanks to JNF Australia and one of its major donors. Read more
Memories of the Six Day War
June 21, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Former Coogee Synagogue and Mount Sinai College board member Harry Schnapp has reflected on his involvement in the Six-Day War at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum. Read more
Anatomy of a terrorist attack
June 21, 2017 by Agencies
23-yr-old border policewoman Hadas Malka was stabbed on duty in Jerusalem. Mohammed Abed al-Rahman was the Magen David Adom paramedic who stubbornly fought for her life…in vain. Read more
After London mosque attack, Jewish groups express solidarity with Muslims
June 21, 2017 by Agencies
Several British Jewish groups expressed solidarity with the U.K.’s Muslim community following an attack outside London’s Finsbury Park Mosque Monday, where a van ploughed into a crowd of Muslim worshipers as they left prayer services just after midnight. Read more
BBC apologises for misleading terror attack headline after Netanyahu complains
Following complaints by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a BBC headline on the recent Palestinian terror attacks in Jerusalem, the British news organisation recanted and apologised. Read more
Three more awards
June 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Three more awards on the Queen’s Birthday list to members of the Australian Jewish community have been added to those published on Monday, taking the total of twenty-seven. Read more
Getting to know you
June 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Australia’s new ambassador to Israel Chris Cannan has spent his first day on the job meeting the Director General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. Read more
ZFA response to senator’s speech on the West Bank
June 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Senator Lisa Singh has delivered a speech in the Senate critical of Israel describing her visit to the Palestinian Territories. Read more
Three Israeli teens arrested for desecrating Australian WWI cemetery
June 19, 2017 by Agencies
Three Israeli teenagers were arrested Saturday after being caught vandalising headstones in the Be’er Sheva War Cemetery in southern Israel, the burial site of Australian military from World War I. Read more
Don’t close the door on kids’ singing by censoring Jewish history
June 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Artsplash Co-ordinator Mary Prichard has reinstated three songs from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat into its programme for the September festival in Wellington, using the correct words including “Israel”. Read more
Netanyahu comforts murdered policewoman’s family
June 19, 2017 by Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara have paid a condolence call on the family of the late Hadas Malka, who was murdered in a terrorist attack at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on Friday evening. Read more
Win a startup trip to Israel
June 19, 2017 by J-Wire
NSW fintech and cyber security startups are invited to a free event tonight to find out how to apply to win a career-igniting trip to the world’s innovation capital of Israel as part of a joint NSW Government and Austrade program. Read more
Sir Frank Lowy: the community congratulates him
June 18, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Chairman of Westfield Corporation, Mr Frank Lowy AC, said today he was deeply honoured to be appointed a Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the Birthday Honours List…and the community’s leaders have expressed have their congratulations. Read more
Australian UN official in hot water
June 16, 2017 by Michael Kuttner
There is a report that Israel has been requested the replacement of Robert Piper, UN Deputy Special Co-Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Occupied Palestinian Territory. Read more
Netanyahu mulls shutting down Al Jazeera offices in Israel
June 15, 2017 by Agencies
Following moves by Jordan and Saudi Arabia to shut down the Al Jazeera broadcaster’s offices in their countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deliberating the possibility of closing the Qatar-based network’s operations in Israel. Read more
Eugene Berkovic
June 15, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Eugene Berkovic (ז״ל). Eugene was a consummate and talented professional, who worked as a taxation partner at Deloitte Australia. Read more
The end of an era
June 15, 2017 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
A very short but sweet farewell from Henry Greener and Amit Rehak in the Shtick Office and Editing Suite, producing the very last episode to go to free-to-air TV on C31 Melbourne which is embarking on Internet TV from July 2017. Read more
The Gonski Hit List explained
June 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
“The Australian” front page article “Gonski hit list: the elite schools set to lose” features a table heading “Private Schools Losing Out” includes four Jewish Day Schools has raised concerns within the community. Read more
Call to Six-Day War volunteers
June 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Volunteers who served in Israel during the Six-Day War are encouraged to attend the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum next week, which will feature the 50th anniversary of the war. Read more
Ambassador Gerberg to return to Wellington
June 14, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The diplomatic crisis between Israel and New Zealand following Wellington sponsorship of the UNSC resolution 2344 is over…and Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand is to return to Wellington. Read more
Netanyahu calls for dismantling of UNRWA after terror tunnel discovery
June 13, 2017 by Agencies
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday called for the dismantling of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), following the discovery of a Hamas terror tunnel dug underneath two of the U.N. body’s schools in Gaza. Read more
The one who got away
June 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne’s Gillian Layton has been added to the list of Jewish recipients honoured in the Queen’s birthday awards. She received an OAM and has taken the list to twenty-four and with now four women honourees. Read more
The Queen’s Birthday Awards – The 2017 Jewish honourees
June 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Philanthropy, Australia-Israel relations, medicine, pharmacy, science and law are some of the fields in which twenty-four members of the Australian Jewish community have been honoured in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday awards. Add in the arts and two rabbis….but only four women have been honoured.
Betar award for Joseph Brender
June 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney philanthropist Joseph Brender has been honoured with a special award of appreciation by World Betar Chief Executive Nerya Meir. Read more
MDA’s Make a Wish Ambulance fulfils Dor’s wish to watch the Wonder Woman movie
June 12, 2017 by Agencies
Dor Tsitsishvili, 16, from Beer Sheva, is battling cancer and requires constant medical supervision. Dor’s greatest love is superheroes – he is passionate about comic books and adores Wonder Woman. Read more
Research at Israel’s leading quantum science centre to protest data privacy and prevent cyber eavesdropping
The Quantum Information Science Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has won a NIS 7.5 million tender from the Government of Israel to lead the construction of a national demonstrator for quantum communications technologies. Read more
JH Kids
June 11, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Sydney’s Jewish House has launched a new building in Bondi Junction, which will houses the JH Kids Program, clinical-psychology and general practitioner services, P4P (Professionals 4 People) as well as other Jewish House programs. Read more
Nikki Haley visits Yad Vashem
June 11, 2017 by Agencies
The U.S. Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations Nikki Haley has visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more
