Vidor project opened in Israel

Sydney-based Lottie and Ervin Vidor have attended the opening of the Vidor Family Visitors’ Center in the Arava region of Israel. Read more

New bird watching centre near Tel Aviv funded by Australians

The ceremony to celebrate the laying of the foundation stone for the new Rosh Tzippor bird-watching centre to be established in the forest in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. Read more

Victorian political leader visits the Negev

The Leader of the Labor Opposition party in Victoria has visited the Western Negev in Israel. Read more

Sir Zelman Cowen Forest in Israel

PNG Prime Minister plants tree

Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has planted a tree during a recent visit to Israel. Read more

Holocaust Survivors in Israel Spend a Day with the JNF

Over 400 people from Amcha centers in northern, central and southern Israel have spent a day on an ecological tour of KKL-JNF sites, including Alexander River Park, the Ilanot tree arboretum, KKL-JNF water reservoir and Herzl House in Hulda Forest…gifted by JNF Melbourne. Read more

Australian initiative cleans up Israel

Volunteers from 250 localities took part in this year’s International Cleanup Day, an event that KKL-JNF has orchestrated in Israel for the past thirteen years. Read more

JNF Update

The Jewish National Fund recently hosted a breakfast forum in Sydney addressed by Major-General Oren Shachor [Res.] co-founder of the Jerusalem Arbitration Center. Read more

Mapping a visit to Israel

JNF Education Director, Erez Feinberg, has initiated a project at Mount Scopus College working with students to build a papier mache model showing the landscape of Israel. Read more

Maccabi contingent plants trees

The Australian delegation to the Maccabiah Games sets out to plant trees at KKL-JNF’s planting center in Nahshon Forest. Read more

J-Wire visits Sha’ar HaNegev

On a recent visit to Israel, J-Wire visited the secondary school at Sha’ar HaNegev, 4kms from Israel’s border with Gaza…and still a weekly target for Qassam rockets launched from Gaza. Read more

The Struggle for the Negev

Ari Briggs – International Director of Regavim, an Israeli Non-Government Organization, and JNF Shaliach Ygal Shapir  have shared a platform at Sydney’s The Central Synagogue discussing good and bad news coming out of the Negev. Read more

Triple Dose of David

Australian business luminary David Gonski has participated in three communal functions in less than 24 hours…a Magen David Adom lunch, a cocktail party for the Moriah Foundation and breakfast with the JNF. Read more

Sydney-funded scenic lookout inaugurated in the Negev

The Scenic Lookout at Kibbutz Kramim in the Negev, donated by Gary and Sharon Hendler of Sydney, Australia, was inaugurated this week. Read more

Australian trees a boon for Israel’s bees

Australian eucalyptus trees have come to the rescue of Israel’s bees…and reversed the dwindling production of honey. Read more

JNF president in daring fire rescue

Stuart Romm, president of the NSWJewish National Fund, risked his life rescuing his neighbour from his blazing home. Read more

JNF Annual Conference

All Australian states were represented at this year’s Jewish National Fund’s annual conference in Melbourne at which some important milestones and awards were made. Read more

170 Aussies plant JNF trees on IDF air force base

170 18-yr-old Australians shared the planting of trees on TuBishvat with young Israelis on active duty at the Nevatim Air Force base…a first for JNF Read more

Bride gets her green wedding wish

Adopt an Acacia is a new JNF initiative which has itself been adopted by Sydney couple Zoe and Darren Smorgon. Read more

Melbourne seeking names of fallen IDF soldiers and victims of terror

Melbourne’s annual Yom Hazikaron Communal Commemoration is the time our community collectively grieves and honours Israel’s Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror and can offer some solace to bereaved families and friends of the fallen. Read more

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