Millions allocated for Jerusalem security over High Holidays

Israel’s Ministry of National Security has allocated A$50 million to bolster security in eastern Jerusalem over the upcoming Jewish high holidays, which begin on Friday, Sept. 15, with Rosh Hashanah. Read more

Penny Wong condemns escalating Middle East violence

Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has condemned escalating violence and terror attacks in the Middle East.  Read more

Jordan, Arab League and UN fuel Jew-hatred on Temple Mount

Jordan, the Arab League and the UN’s failure to condemn the virulent Jew-hatred on public display during Ramadan at Islam’s third holiest religious site – the Al-Aksa Mosque – located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – is despicable. Read more

Court approves of silent Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

For the first time since Jewish prayer returned to the Temple Mount, following a court approval which gave it legal standing. Read more

Islamist members of Bennett’s coalition threaten intifada

The Islamist Ra’am party, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition partners, has issued a statement warning the Israeli government and police of a pending violent outburst after Jews arrived at the Temple Mount with Israeli flags. Read more

Blinken blunders and other balagan

For those uninitiated in the nuances of modern Israeli discourse, balagan loosely translated means chaos or fiasco. Read more

How will we know who won the war?

Maybe one day, we will discover that the impetus for Hamas’s latest onslaught against Israel wasn’t the pending Israeli Supreme Court decision about whether or not to respect the property rights of Jewish landlords in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.

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