Netanyahu: joint statement with Malcolm Turnbull
February 24, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Prime Ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Benjamin Netanyahu have a joint statement following their talks in Sydney. Read more
A half hour on their own
February 24, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Sara Netanyahu and Lucy Turnbull took time out of their busy schedule accompanying husbands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, to share a coffee in a kosher café in Sydney. Read more
Gift of Life desperately seeking donors
February 24, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
At this very moment eight Jewish blood cancer patients including two babies are in desperate need of unrelated matching blood stem cell transfusions. Read more
Netanyahu: Meet the Cabinet
February 24, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attended a meeting with many members of Australian Prime Minister’s Cabinet at which he called for an increase on trade between Australia and Israel. Read more
Netanyahu: Bibi goes to Moriah
February 23, 2017 by Sophie Deutsch
Some of Australia’s youngest Jewish students were fortunate enough to witness history in the making, warmly welcoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Moriah College in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Read more
Connections to Indigenous Diggers of WWI
February 23, 2017 by Roz Tarszisz
The Australian Jewish community has connections to Indigenous communities that go back to pivotal events in WWI.
Course at Melton in March
February 23, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
In a series of articles, Melton teachers will discuss the fascinating courses they will be teaching in March. Read more
Qantas and EL AL announce codeshare agreement
February 23, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Australian and Israeli travellers are set to benefit from a new codeshare agreement between Qantas and EL AL. Read more
Netanyahu: meet the community
February 23, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Prime Benjamin Netanyahu had his audience drawn from the Jewish communities across Australia spellbound in Sydney’s Central Synagogue. Read more
Netanyahu: a lunch for business leaders “We love Australia”
February 23, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was joined by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Leader of Opposition Bill Shorten at a lunch attended by Australian and Israeli business people. Read more
Netanyahu: bilateral talks with Malcolm Turnbull
February 23, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The stop in Netanyahu’s busy schedule in Sydney was at Admiralty House in Kirribilli making the unusual journey to the Sydney residence of Australia’s Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove by boat. Read more
Netanyahu: Media conference
February 22, 2017 by J-Wire
Prime Ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Bibi Netanyahu faced the media at Sydney Kirribilli House following discussions held in private. Read more
World Class Line up for UIA Campaign
February 22, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Stephen Harper, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada, will headline an amazing line up of speakers for the UIA Campaign this year across Australia next week. Read more
1,800 years Hebrew inscriptions discovered
An 1,800 year old limestone capital dating to the Roman period that is engraved with two Hebrew inscriptions was discovered during the course of restoration and conservation work being carried out in the ancient synagogue and neighbouring Beit Zinati visitor centre at Peqiʽin, in the Western Galilee. Read more
Anti-Semitism on the rise in the U.S.
February 22, 2017 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has warned that antisemitism in the United States was on the rise and called on the authorities on all levels to take appropriate measures to combat it. Read more
Welcome Bibi
February 22, 2017 by Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Australia. It is not his first visit to the land Down Under but it is his first time as Israel’s prime minister and the first visit a sitting Israeli prime minister since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Read more
1,500,000 buttons
February 21, 2017 by Talia Katz
Melbourne’s Bialik College has achieved its goal of collecting 1.5 million buttons each one representing a child murdered in the Holocaust…a plan devised almost ten years ago. Read more
Netanyahu in Singapore
February 21, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has visited the Singapore Jewish community, at the Maghain Aboth synagogue ahead of tomorrow’s arrival in Sydney. Read more
Netanyahu in Australia
February 20, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara will arrive in Australia on Wednesday for what will be a historic occasion…the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister will visit Australia. Read more
New Zealand wants data on hate crimes
February 20, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
New Zealand’ s Human Rights Commission has confirmed that there is no need for new hate crime laws but there is a need to collect data when hate crimes take place. Read more
Netanyahu: the first visit to these important countries
February 19, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the cabinet his visit to Singapore and Australia will the first by an Israeli prime minister “to these countries”. Read more
Hezbollah’s Nasrallah boasts about hitting Israel’s nuclear facilities
February 19, 2017 by Agencies
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah took to the Lebanese terror group’s airwaves Thursday to boast about being able to target Israel’s nuclear facilities in Dimona, while chiding Israel for being afraid of Hezbollah’s “might.” Read more
Preferences to One Nation in NSW on the cards?
February 17, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
The deputy leader of the NSW opposition Walt Secord says Premier Gladys Berejiklian has refused to rule out directing preferences to One Nation candidates at the 2019 NSW election. Read more
Danby asks Australian government to condemn Iran’s missile testing
February 17, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Inserting an advertisement in the Australian Financial Review, Labor Federal MP Michael Danby has continued his campaign for the Australian government to publicly condemn Iran’s repeated firings of ballistic missiles. Read more
MDA delivers 100 blood units and plasma to Peru in order to save Israeli traveller’s life
February 17, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
During the past week, Magen David Adom, with the coordination of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has flown blood units to Lima, Peru in order to save the life of Zohar Katz, an Israeli traveller who is hospitalised there in severe condition. Read more
Tu B’Shevat: Northern Queensland style
February 17, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
The Cairns Jewish community celebrated the Tu B’Shevat by planting trees for the city’s council. Read more
ADC concerned abut One Nation candidate
February 16, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Anti-Defamation Commission has expressed its deep concern about statements made by One Nation candidate Michelle Meyers that the LGBTI community is employing Nazi style tactics in their campaign for marriage equality. Read more
JCCV defends 18C
February 16, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Jennifer Huppert, President of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has commended the ECAJ and AIJAC in their advocacy in defence of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Act). Read more
Gen17 community survey a blueprint for the future
February 16, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
How important is connectedness to Jewish communal life? What proportion of Jewish Australians is concerned by the level of antisemitism? What proportion of young parents considers the cost of Jewish education prohibitive? Read more
Netanyahu at the White House
February 16, 2017 by Agencies
At a media conference at The White House, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told President Donald Trump that “the United States has no better ally than Israel”. Read more
