Israel’s Independence Day celebration at UN features sustainable lab-grown meat

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan and the Israeli Mission to the UN hosted a celebration of Israel’s 74th Independence Day featuring sustainable meat and innovative Israeli protein substitutes, with about 250 participants, including dozens of UN ambassadors from around the world. Read more

How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies

A Palestinian Arab journalist with Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead this week in a firefight between Hamas and the Israelis in the West Bank city of Jenin. Read more

Putin ignores recent tensions over Ukraine in Independence Day greetings to Israel

Some in Israel are speculating that the Russian government may be looking to put the past week’s tensions aside and try to restore better relations with the State of Israel. Read more

Australia’s leaders send messages for Yom Ha’atzmaut

Both Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese have sent messages on Israel’s  74th birthday. Read more

3D-printing method may curb reef devastation plaguing coral ecosystems

In a paper published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, researchers from four of Israel’s leading universities highlight a three-dimensional printing method they developed to preserve coral reefs. Their innovation is based on the natural structure of coral reefs off the southern coastal Israeli city of Eilat, but their model is adaptable to other marine environments and may help curb reef devastation plaguing coral ecosystems around the world. Read more

Jordan and Israel need to act to end Jew-hatred in Jerusalem

Jordan’s failure to promote interfaith relations between Muslims and Jews has once again witnessed rioting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Read more

Rabbi Shua Smukler talks about Aliyah

Ha’Aliyah and the new Olim to Israel was celebrated in Israel…a time to talk with Sydney’s Rabbi Shua Smukler as he and his family prepare for Aliyah…writes Michael Manhaim. Read more

Herzog on video link with Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe aboard the International Space Station

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog have spoken tonight via video link with Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe, live from the International Space Station, where he is stationed as part of the Rakia Mission. Read more

Israel and Bhutan improve their ties in Canberra

The Embassy of Israel in Australia and the ACT Jewish Centre have jointly hosted an informal gathering with representatives from the Royal Bhutanese Embassy, Canberra and the Australia-Bhutanese community. Read more

Inconvenient revelations

Very often there are news items that upset conventional thinking and as a consequence, they sink without trace. Read more

Israeli study finds 4th vaccination reduces serious disease

A  study has found that the rate of severe disease among people who received the 4th dose of vaccine against Coronavirus was lower by a factor of about 3 compared to people who only received three vaccine doses. Read more

Gaza source: ‘Deterioration in Jerusalem’ will force Hamas to attack

“Hamas is not interested in opening a front against Israel,” but a deterioration in Jerusalem will force it to react, a leader in the Gaza Strip told TPS. The Palestinian Authority also estimates that Hamas is not seeking a large-scale confrontation at this time. Read more

ISIS affiliates encourage further attacks in Israel

Israeli Arabs who were affiliated with Islamic State (ISIS) perpetrated two terrorist attacks in the Israeli cities of Beersheba and Hadera, leaving six dead and about 20 injured. Read more

‘We cannot be broken!’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett issued a recorded statement Wednesday evening to the Israeli public reassuring them as to the measure being taken to deal with the latest wave of terrorism in their country. Read more

Report: Bennett considers Ukraine visit to promote negotiations with Russia

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that he would accept Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s invitation to visit the country on the condition that it made progress in talks with Russia, Ynet learned on Monday. Read more

Israel’s Shining Star field hospital in Ukraine opens

Israel’s “Shining Star” field hospital in the city of Mostyska in western Ukraine opened on Tuesday with a special ceremony that was attended by representatives of the Ukrainian government, the Deputy Minister of Health, the Governor of the Lviv district, and Mayor of Mostyska, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Israeli Embassy in Ukraine, the head of the delegation and other officials. Read more

Israeli doctors implant world’s thinnest artificial cornea

Israeli doctors achieved a medical breakthrough in the ophthalmology department at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem with the first implant of the thinnest artificial cornea ever printed in the world. Read more

Emirates Airline announces daily flight service between Dubai and Tel Aviv

Emirates Airline announced the launch of a daily flight service connecting Dubai and Tel Aviv starting on June 23, reported Globes on Tuesday. Read more

New Deltacron variant discovered in Israel

The Deltacron, a new, hybrid Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant was recently discovered in Israel, as the fifth wave of infections refuses to subside. Read more

The plight of trapped women

Marking Yom HaAguna, the international day highlighting the plight of “trapped women” commemorated annually on the Fast of Esther, the Yad La’isha Legal Aid Centre, part of the Ohr Torah Stone network, confirmed that they had released 49 women from unwanted marriages over the past year in Israel. Read more

‘Believe more in the threats of our enemies than in the promises of our allies’

Some years ago, I heard the head of an Israeli think tank say, that Jewish life is a constant tension between two, often clashing, narratives. Read more

Ukrainian refugees to receive free medical services in Israel

Israel’s Terem Medical Clinics will be providing free treatment to Ukrainian refugees who do not qualify to join a health fund. Read more

Why does the world care what Israel does about Ukraine?

It has long been axiomatic that Israel—a tiny country whose people comprise a tenth of a percent of the world’s population and whose landmass is an exponentially smaller fraction of a percent of the planet’s landmass—gets the sort of media attention that would be appropriate for one of the largest nations. Read more

United Hatzalah team rescues injured family of five from Ukraine in 22-hour operation

United Hatzalah’s medical relief mission to Ukraine last week rescued five injured members of one family, including an infant, from the war-torn nation, according to a spokesperson for the organization. Read more

Israeli field hospital for Ukrainian refugees to be named after Golda Meir

Israel announced on Monday that it has officially approved a field hospital for refugees in Western Ukraine. Read more

Iran ‘thwarts nuclear site sabotage bid’

Iranian state television says its security forces have thwarted planned sabotage at the country’s major Fordow nuclear site by a network it accused Israel of recruiting. Read more

‘Israel is your home,’ Israeli premier tells Ukrainian Masa participants

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with participants in the Masa Israel Journey program from Ukraine at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Read more

Ukrainian refugees to arrive in Israel on Sunday

Over 300 Jewish olim (immigrants) fleeing Ukraine will arrive in Israel on Sunday in a joint operation led by the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, The Jewish Agency for Israel and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ). Read more

Israel is navigating perilous diplomatic terrain in Ukraine

Ever since biblical times, the people of Israel have had to navigate the harsh terrain between clashing global powers. Now, here we are again, in Ukraine, having to maneuver between Russia and the West. The terrain this time around is exceedingly difficult, with significant security and ethical pitfalls along the way…writes Michael Oren. Read more

Will Israel find itself on the wrong side of the ‘changing’ world order?

With fighting raging in Ukraine, Israel finds itself torn between supporting independent Ukrainian sovereignty and not wishing to anger a newly belligerent world power in Russia. Read more

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