Secord welcomes election of Scott Farlow as new chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel

NSW Labor frontbencher and deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel Walt Secord has welcomed the election of Liberal MP Scott Farlow as the new chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel. Read more

UN should start focusing on the Jordan-Israel two-state solution

United Nations Secretary-General – Antonio Guterres – was at it again this week repeating the failed decades-old UN mantra supposed to end the 100-years-old Jewish-Arab conflict: Read more

Technion, Israel Aerospace Industries launch project to develop nanosatellites

The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology has signed a cooperation agreement with the Space Division at Israel Aerospace Industries to develop and launch a nanosatellite that will enter low-altitude orbit around the moon and collect data using a payload of scientific instruments. Read more

PM Bennett: ‘We do not want to return to days of lockdowns’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced during a Coronavirus (COVID-19) assessment and tour of Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday that he will re-establish a corona cabinet and implement tighter restrictions in response to the recent spike in cases across the country and the Delta (Indian) variant spreading rapidly. Read more

Huge scam exposed in Jerusalem: Police arrest six Arabs for forgery of ownership documents in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood

Israel’s police arrested early Tuesday morning six Arabs suspected of a multi-million real estate scam in eastern Jerusalem, an affair sure to send shockwaves through multiple systems. Read more

Israel registered over 100 COVID-19 cases yesterday

Israel’s health system registered on Tuesday 128 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the country in 24 hours, the first such instance in over two months. Read more

Israel takes action against COVID-19 outbreaks

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held a meeting with the relevant government officials on Sunday evening regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks in Israel, following multiple cases of infections in schools in two cities in the country. Read more

PA refuses Israel’s offer to transfer 1m COVID-19 vaccines

The Palestinian Authority (PA) cancelled an agreement in which Israel was to transfer over one million Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to the PA, claiming the Pfizer vaccines were damaged. Read more

Haley, Hagee show solidarity in visit to Israel, warn against revitalized Iran

Israel, you are not alone. … We represent 10 million-plus people in America and these people say to you Israel, we have your back.” Read more

Linoy Ashram wins gold, silver in European Gymnastics Championship

Israeli gymnast Linoy Ashram was crowned European champion in the clubs exercise in the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Varna, Bulgaria. Read more

Israel becomes first country to ban fur sales for fashion

Israel has become the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur for fashion (with a few exceptions), effective six months from now. Read more

Jordanian table-tennis player pulls out of match to avoid facing Israeli opponent

A Jordanian national table tennis player recently withdrew from the World Para Table Tennis Championships in Slovenia to avoid playing against an Israeli athlete, confirmed the Jordanian Paralympic Committee. Read more

Israel opens COVID-19 vaccines to teens aged 12-16

Israeli teens aged 12-16 can get vaccinated against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) beginning on Sunday, the latest phase of the country’s battle against the pandemic. Read more

Shin Bet head warns of political violence

Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman issued an unusual warning on Saturday against the intense political climate in the country which he claims may lead to political violence. Read more

How did Hamas become the darling of the West?

In February 2009, I wrote an essay about a symposium at UCLA that marked the beginning of Hamas’s penetration into academic circles…writes Judea Pearl. Read more

Israeli researcher named National Geographic Society ‘Emerging Explorer’

The National Geographic Society has named University of Haifa professor Dr Aviad Scheinin as one of its “Emerging Explorers” in 2021—one of 15 individuals it described as changing the world “one idea at a time.” Read more

Netanyahu: Israel will get rid of Iran’s existential threat, even if US opposes

If faced with the difficult situation of having to choose between an Iran armed with nuclear weapons or a diplomatic clash with Washington following an attack on Iran, Israel would choose the latter, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared. Read more

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Former Ambassador David Friedman: ‘Trump administration would have given Israel free reign to defend itself’

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was dispatched to Israel by U.S. President Joe Biden this week in the direct aftermath of an acute conflagration highlighted by 11 days of indiscriminate rocket attacks by Hamas on Israeli population centres and pinpoint Israeli airstrikes on Hamas installations in Gaza in retaliation. Read more

Chief rabbi calls out South Africa’s president over Israel ‘apartheid’ allegations

South Africa’s Sunday Times published an open letter by Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who compared Israel to South Africa under apartheid. Read more

Simon Cowell drops planned appearance as judge on ‘X Factor Israel’

British media mogul and veteran music producer Simon Cowell has cancelled his planned appearance as a judge on the new season of “The X Factor Israel”. Read more

10 takeaways from the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas

Over this past weekend, Arabs were shooting fireworks in the sky, supposedly in celebration of holding Israeli population centres hostage for 11 days with more than 4,000 rockets. Read more

Israel is removing all corona restrictions starting next Tuesday, June 1st

For the first time since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, all restrictions in the State of Israel will be lifted. Health Minister Yuli (Joel) Edelstein announced today that he will not extend the restrictions that will expire next Tuesday, June 1^st. Read more

Biden’s skin-deep support for Israel

Until Wednesday, President Joe Biden had maintained a fairly supportive posture towards Israel in the face of the Hamas terror regime in Gaza’s launch of its newest round of war against the Jewish state. Read more

UN rebukes Hamas for bombing its aid for Gaza

Hamas’ mortar attacks on the crossings from Israel into the Gaza Strip while humanitarian supplies and personnel were being brought into Gaza are “unacceptable” and are “preventing vital humanitarian supplies from entering the Strip,” said Lynn Hastings, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in Palestine. Read more

A statement from Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued an update on the continuing conflict with Hamas in Gaza. Read more

Preventable and predictable

When tragedy strikes the often-heard explanation is that it was “an act of God” and therefore unforeseen and beyond the ability of humans to prevent it. Read more

Scott Morrison says no to Durban 4

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has applauded Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement that Australia will not participate in the event to mark the 20th anniversary of the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Read more

First plane of Israeli medical aid lands in India

The first cargo plane with tons of medical equipment donated by Israel to the Government of India landed at Indira Airport in Delhi on Wednesday morning. Read more

Jerusalem police arrest 5 Arab rioters in Sheikh Jarrah

Jerusalem’s police arrested three Arabs in the city on Wednesday night during violent riots in the Shimon Hatzadik neighbourhood, also known as Sheikh Jarrah. Read more

Bob Carr targets Israel again

Former NSW Premier and former Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr has sent an email to “to all supporters of Palestine in the Australian Labor Party”. Read more

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