Israel ‘one of the world’s top cyber powers’

Israel’s position as a cyber superpower places it in an exclusive club of world powers, despite having a population a little larger than New York City, according to former Israeli defence official Chuck Freilich. Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine & Saudi-Israel peace deal on hold

Hopes of a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel are on hold following a report in the Wall Street Journal that – according to US officials – the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have agreed on the broad contours of a deal for Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel in exchange for concessions to the Palestinians, U.S. security guarantees and civilian nuclear help. Read more

What deal are the Americans and Saudis negotiating?

Under the headline, “U.S.-Saudi Deal Sets Path to Normalize Kingdom’s Ties with Israel,” on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published a detailed report of the content of U.S.-Saudi discussions. Read more

Potential Saudi normalisation raises questions about the Palestinian Authority

Progress towards a potential normalisation agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is raising the question of how the Palestinian Authority would fit into such a significant regional maneuver. Read more

Palestinian Authority strains ties in Jenin as it reasserts control

The Palestinian Authority is straining ties with Jenin as it continues its efforts to assert control over the city. Read more

Indigenous Friends of Israel say the Albanese government has thrown Israel under a bus

Indigenous Friends of Israel (IFI) co-founders Norman and Barbara Miller has condemned “the decision by the Albanese government to throw Israel under a bus by calling its holiest sites including the Temple Mount and Western Wall ‘occupied territories.’ Read more

Inspired by Hebrew, scholar helps revive dying aboriginal Australian languages

Amid the COVID pandemic in 2020, Ghil’ad Zuckermann drove to Cardabia Station in a remote part of Western Australia. The coast reminded the Tel Aviv-born scholar of the shorelines of Eilat. Read more

Australia to strengthen objection to Israeli settlements

Australia will strengthen its objections to the Israeli government’s planned settlement expansion and is “gravely concerned” by activities that hinder the prospect of peace in the region.  Read more

Is a US-Saudi-Israel deal really in the works?

According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, President Joe Biden is trying to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a big favour. Read more

Israeli study on tanning may open path to preventing skin cancer

Israeli researchers have proposed a new theory for why the body’s tanning process does not occur immediately after exposure to the sun’s rays but only after a few hours or even days. The discovery will serve as a foundation for further research, potentially making skin cancer preventable. Read more

Suspect throws tens of thousands of shekel bills out of window

Israeli Police and Tax Authority investigators in the northern city of Shfar’am were stunned when a suspect in an ongoing financial investigation tried to dispose of evidence by throwing hundreds of bills worth tens of thousands of shekels out the window on Tuesday, Israeli officials disclosed on Wednesday. Read more

Israeli foreign minister: Saudi deal ‘closer than ever’

Israel is closer than it has ever been to a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Monday. Read more

Israeli minister to introduce gender-segregated bathing pilot

Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman is poised to introduce this summer gender-segregated bathing times in some of the country’s natural springs, outside the official operating hours of the sites, according to Israel Hayom. Read more

All 15 justices to hear petitions against ‘reasonableness law’

All 15 justices of Israel’s Supreme Court will hear the petitions asking them to cancel the “reasonableness law” that the Knesset passed last week, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut announced on Monday. Read more

Mossad chief secretly visited DC to discuss Saudi deal

The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency secretly travelled to Washington nearly two weeks ago to discuss a deal with Saudi Arabia. Read more

Normalising ties: Israeli, Saudi sources disagree on Palestinian linkage

In recent days, officials in Jerusalem and Washington have hinted at possible progress in normalising relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Read more

Sovereignty may be the price for normalisation with Riyadh

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that “we will one day be able to have railways connect Saudi Arabia and Israel,” just hours after a New York Times piece suggested that the kingdom was expecting the Jewish state to make significant concessions to the Palestinians as a precondition for normalization. Read more

Israeli targeted procedure destroys bone marrow cancer cells

In a groundbreaking development in the fight against myeloma, Israeli researchers developed a targeted procedure to effectively destroy cancer within bone marrow. Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine key to a Saudi-Israel peace

President Biden and New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman are attempting to resuscitate the failed solution they have both championed for decades to end the 100-years old Jewish-Arab conflict: Creating an independent Palestinian Arab state between Israel and Jordan (“the two-state solution”). Read more

The day after

Trying to predict events when it comes to Israel and the region is fraught with uncertainty. Read more

Protests mount after Israel passes judicial bill

Israeli doctors began a 24-hour strike, and black ads covered newspaper front pages in a furore over the hard-right government’s ratification of the first part of judicial reforms that critics fear endanger the independence of the courts. Read more

Israel to assist firefighting efforts in Greece

Israel has sent two firefighting aircraft to Greece to help combat raging wildfires there, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced on Wednesday. Read more

Prehistoric humans in Hula Valley travelled long distances for high-quality flint

Israeli researchers have discovered that early humans living in the Hula Valley travelled long distances for high-quality flint, challenging previously-held assumptions about prehistoric man. Read more

Food for thought – a letter from America

In The Philadelphia Inquirer’s food section, a Palestinian chef opened up a whole new front…quite an unappetising one…in the propaganda wars over Israel. Read more

Israel reservists step up demos against judicial change

Protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul have intensified with demonstrations across Israel as a retired air force general said 161 of the corps’ reserve officers had vowed to no longer report for duty. Read more

Fifty years after carving his house into a cliff, Israeli man faces eviction

An Israeli man who literally carved out a home for himself in seaside cliffs faces eviction after having lived there for 50 years. Read more

Bibi-hatred trumps creating Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

One wonders what led Israel’s leading left-wing newspaper Haaretz to publish a bizarre article by Rogel Alpher headlined “I oppose peace with Saudi Arabia”  because Alpher fears Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s political position will be strengthened if Netanyahu succeeds. Read more

Drownings at Israeli beaches nearing last year’s total

Halfway through the 2023 beach season, the number of drownings in Israel is approaching the total for all of last year, according to the Knesset’s Information and Research Centre. Read more

On the other hand

Olim from New Zealand, Australia and Britain will be familiar with that quintessential popular food called fish and chips. Read more

The real crisis in the West

Over the past six months, the mass protests in Israel over judicial reform have elicited loud cries in the West that Israel is “in crisis.” Read more

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