White House wants Saudi-Israel deal by year’s end

The White House is pressing for an Israeli-Saudi peace deal in the next six months before U.S. President Joe Biden goes into full campaign mode, Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials. Read more

Celebrating 75 years of an independent Jewish state with UIA

UIA commemorated the miraculous milestone of Israel’s 75th anniversary by joining over 750 Keren Hayesod-UIA supporters from around the world for a Homeland celebration. Read more

What does Turkey’s election mean for Israel?

Turkey’s High Election Board (YSK) declared on Monday that the country would be heading to a runoff election in late May, after incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to secure over 50% of the vote in Sunday’s election. Read more

Rabbi Leon Dee calls April10 Dees Day

His wife and two of his daughters were murdered in Israel on Friday. A family of seven was to become a family of four. He talks to the media. Read more

Israel hits Gaza as Netanyahu vows enemies will pay

Israeli jets have hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza in retaliation for rocket attacks it blames on the Islamist group Hamas as tensions following police raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem this week threaten to spiral out of control.
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Hackers launch massive attack on Israeli universities

A hacker group known as Anonymous Sudan is believed responsible for a massive cyberattack on Israeli universities on Tuesday, said Checkpoint, a cybersecurity company. Read more

Ex-Prime Minister Ehud Barak confirms Israel has nuclear weapons: Why it matters

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak broke Israel’s policy of ambiguity and tweeted his confirmation that Israel possesses nuclear weapons on Tuesday. Read more

The IDF’s ‘Special in Uniform’ gives disabled Israelis a chance to serve

The IDF offers people with developmental disorders such as autism an opportunity to serve in the military, giving them a chance to integrate into Israeli society along with everyone else through a program called “Special in Uniform” (SIU). Read more

Israeli researchers develop revolutionary cell-sized robot

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a hybrid micro-robot, the size of a single biological cell that is 10 microns in size. Read more

Protests increase as Netanyahu sacks defence minister

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sacked Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, triggering mass protests a day after Gallant broke ranks with the government and urged a halt to a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system. Read more

Netanyahu delays UK trip; police use water cannons to break up Israeli protests

Israeli protests against a controversial judicial overhaul continued, with police using water cannons against demonstrators blocking roads in Tel Aviv and Haifa on Thursday. Read more

Trust is a key factor here

The Israeli government’s proposed judicial reforms continue to advance, at the same time as being unilaterally modified by the government itself. Read more

Anti-reform protests reveal police double standards

What began as Saturday evening mass protests against the government’s judicial reform program have morphed into “days of disruption” and increasingly extreme behaviour as demonstrators block highways, clash with police, blockade Knesset members in their homes, refuse to show up for reserve duty, and, in one instance, barricade the prime minister’s wife in a hair salon. Read more

Jerusalem sending ‘conciliatory messages’ to Amman

Israel is increasing its diplomatic outreach to Jordan amid anger in Amman over a speech by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich dismissing Palestinian peoplehood and displaying a map of the Hashemite Kingdom within the Jewish state’s borders. Read more

Palestinians building neighbourhood for terrorists in Samaria

A luxurious neighbourhood for Palestinian terrorists is being built on a mountain in Samaria. Read more

The urgent need for Israeli electoral reform

Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world. Read more

Proposed legislation seeks year-wait for new immigrant passport

Under new legislation proposed by Israel’s Interior Ministry this week, new immigrants would receive passports one year after obtaining citizenship, and only if they have actually relocated to Israel. Read more

Israel slams South Africa parliament decision to downgrade ties

Israel on Wednesday slammed as “disgraceful” the South African parliament’s decision to downgrade Jerusalem’s embassy in Pretoria to a liaison office. Read more

Her master’s voice

A dramatic police rescue operation reunited an abducted dog with its Israel Defence Forces combat veteran owner following a middle-of-the-night raid in the eastern Jerusalem area of Silwan. Read more

Ehud Ya’ari: Israel in “one of the most serious crises that I can remember”

Pre-eminent Israeli political commentator and Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Fellow Ehud Ya’ari has addressed AIJAC supporters in Sydney, covering the current internal disputes raging within Israel over proposed judicial reforms. Read more

The real threat to Israeli democracy

The huge demonstrations that continue in Israel and turned violent this week are fueled by the claim that the government’s judicial reform package spells the end of Israeli democracy. Read more

Joe Woolf, 94, helped connect fellow veterans of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence

Joe Woolf, a South African Jewish volunteer in the foreign-fighters unit Machal conducted research that helped preserve that group’s legacy for 75 years after Israel’s War of Independence. He died on Feb. 28 at his home in the northern Israeli moshav of Ilaniya. He was 94 years old. Read more

Israel is our business

Israel’s Six-Day War disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s graduation plans at Cheltenham High School, located less than a mile from the Philadelphia neighbourhood where I grew up. Read more

Netanyahu: ‘Freedom of protest is not a license to drag the country into anarchy’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a televised address on Wednesday evening, spoke out against the violent protests that roiled the country throughout the day, in some cases leading to clashes with police. Read more

Death penalty for terrorists passes first Knesset vote

Legislation introducing the death penalty for terrorists passed its initial Knesset vote on Wednesday. Read more

One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews

The term “displaced persons” doesn’t always adequately capture how much of a geographical impact wars have. Read more

On the other hand

This week we travelled to the north of Israel to visit our youngest son. Read more

Biden’s less than ironclad commitment to Israel

Forget the bromides about America’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel and how the United States is Israel’s “greatest friend.” Over the past week, the Biden administration has crossed two ominous red lines. Read more

Pre-Purim portents

Rosh Chodesh Adar (the new month of Adar) has arrived, and that means Purim is not far away. Read more

Oman permits Israeli planes to cross its skies

Oman announced that it is opening its skies to Israeli aircraft, opening up new and faster aviation routes between Israel and the Far East. Read more

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