No stone left unturned…

In the world of intelligence, the saying goes, reality often exceeds the imagination, and yet the operation to return Zachary Baumel’s remains to Israel in a mission that spanned the globe can easily be considered one of the most impressive in the country’s history. Read more

Of compromise and betrayal: From the Golan to Brexit

Two current sources of uproar tie Britain, the United States and Israel into a matrix of hypocrisy, double standards and spinelessness. Read more

Will Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ lead to change?

Since the 1993 Oslo accords, there have been many attempts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read more

Adapting the Law

The Bible emerged in, and out of, a world that was predominantly agricultural. A world where seasons and produce determined how societies flourished or perished Read more

For the People of Israel at UIA Australia’s 2019 campaign events

UIA Australia hosted almost 7000 attendees across its 2019 Campaign events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth in support of thePeople of Israel. Read more

Ronald Sackville to chair Royal Commission

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced the establishment of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability and the appointment of  Ronald Sackville QC as the Chair of the Royal Commission. Read more

President Rivlin’s eulogy at the funeral of Zachary Baumel ז”ל

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin delivered a eulogy at the funeral of IDF Sergeant First Class Zachary Baumel ז”ל. Read more

Lucky dip on election day

When we were growing up in Wellington many years ago (a bygone era – never to return) the highlight of the Jewish community’s social calendar and Zionist fundraising was the annual Jewish National Fund garden party. Read more

Netanyahu receives personal effects of soldier missing in action in 1982

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attended an official Russian Defence Ministry ceremony at which he received the remains of Zachary Baumel’s personal effects. Read more

ECAJ Gaza complaint upheld

The ABC has upheld a complaint made by the ECAJ that the headline of an ABC online story about Gaza was ‘misleading’. Read more

Yad Vashem seeks names of unknown victims

Since 1955, Yad Vashem has worked to fulfil its mandate to preserve the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by collecting their names, the ultimate representation of a person’s identity. Read more

Josh Frydenberg poster smeared with antisemitic graffiti

Vandals have drawn Hitler moustaches on election posters featuring the Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Read more

The end of an era

Today, Michael Danby will leave Australia’s Parliament House for the final time as an MP following a 21-year stint representing the Labor seat of Melbourne Ports.

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Beresheet prepares to orbit the Moon

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‘Today We Close the Circle:’ IDF Missing In Action soldier Returned Home After 37 Years

The body of Sergeant 1st Class Zachary Baumel, who went missing during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War, has finally been recovered and returned to Israel, 37 after his disappearance. Read more

Female skeleton cradling baby uncovered at Holocaust mass grave in Belarus

A skeleton of a mother cradling her baby was uncovered at a mass grave in the Belarusian city of Brest that was discovered months ago, reported the BBC. Read more

Terrorist shot and killed by Israeli civilian after trying to stab his daughter in car

A pair of Israeli civilians neutralized a terrorist who attempted to attack people in their cars as they drove near the Hawara checkpoint south of Shechem/Nablus in Samaria on Wednesday morning, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Read more

Seven English-speaking immigrants to be honoured for contributions to Israel

Seven immigrants from English-speaking countries will be honoured as winners of the 2019 Sylvan Adams Bonei Zion Prize, an annual award presented by the Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah organization including one from Australia. Read more

The City of David and the problem with dividing Jerusalem

Those who continue to deny the historical facts about Jewish Jerusalem got more bad news this week. Archeologists working at the City of David site in Jerusalem revealed some of their latest finds, among them was a bulla or small seal that can be dated to the sixth century B.C.E. and before the Babylonian destruction of the First Temple. Read more

Submission to UN urges rights for Palestinian, Israeli children subjected to Hamas abuse

In a legal brief filed with the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child shortly before the one-year anniversary of the Palestinian “March of Return” on March 30, the independent human-rights group U.N. Watch urged that the Palestinian Authority be held to account for violating children’s rights, alleging that it has “failed to protect both Palestinian and Israeli children in armed conflict.” Read more

Ludwig and Pyotr step up again: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

An SSO Masters Series concert with two sure-fire blockbuster works would usually leave room for something quirky from artistic director, David Robertson’s black book of offbeat music he likes to share, but it didn’t happen last night. We got the Beethoven violin concerto and Tchaikovsky’s fourth symphony neatly divided by interval. Both these works are favoured with plenty of playtime around Australian orchestras because they are so popular. Read more

Nechama Rivlin: the president visits his wife

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has visited his wife Nechama at Beilinson Hospital, immediately on his return from a state visit to Canada. She is stable and is sedated and receiving respiratory aid in the cardio-thoracic intensive care unit. Read more

Maccabi NSW honours its stars

Maccabi has held its annual Jewish Sports Awards to recognise great sporting achievements for the calendar year 2018. Read more

Trump exposes United Nations as world’s epicentre for Jew-hatred

President Trump’s Proclamation recognising Israel’s sovereignty in the Golan Heights – and the condemnation issued by the United Nations Security Council in response – has exposed the United Nations (UN) as the world’s epicentre for rabid Jew-hatred. Read more

Apr-21 5:30pm SBS-TV: The mystery of Rommel’s gold

In 1943, the Nazis looted $50 million in gold from the Jewish community in Djerba, Tunisia. The team tracks the loot to a dive site off Corsica, a pawnshop in Germany to the family of an escaped Nazi in South America. Read more

Israel’s first lady in critical condition, president rushes back to country

First Lady Nechama Rivlin, the wife of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, is in critical but stable condition after her health deteriorated late Tuesday. Read more

A life committed to motivate others

Escaping death by the minutest of margins, the gravely injured Israeli soldier Aharon Karov now motivates people around the globe to find their inner strengths, a technique he learned by The founder of the Feuerstein Institute in Jerusalem. Read more

Who does the PA want to win Israel’s elections?

The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas in Gaza are closely monitoring the development of the elections in Israel, with each opposing party preferring that another candidate win. Read more

AICC welcomes Tax Treaty

The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce has welcomed the signing of the Double Taxation Agreement between Australia and Israel. Read more

JCCV makes historic apology to Aleph Melbourne

At its Plenum meeting on Monday evening, the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) overwhelmingly voted to apologise to Aleph Melbourne for the “hateful” debate and failure to support Aleph in its quest for affiliation at the JCCV Plenum in 1999. Read more

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