Four Israeli universities among top 50 producers of worldwide entrepreneurs

Four Israeli universities are ranked among the top 50 undergraduate programs in the world that produce the most successful entrepreneurs, according to a new study by the market-data company PitchBook. Read more

RU OK breakfast in Sydney

Over 60 Sydney community members attended the RU OK Day breakfast at JewishCare. Read more

Mashaal: Hamas will thwart Israeli annexation of Jordan Valley

Hamas will do everything in its power to stop Israel from annexing the Jordan Valley, former Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said on Wednesday. Read more

Jordan Valley council head hails sovereignty announcement

Israeli residents of the Jordan Valley hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement on Tuesday that he plans to extend Israeli sovereignty to the area if he is re-elected on Sept. 17. Netanyahu’s pledge was widely criticized in the Arab world, and also by some Palestinian Jordan Valley residents. Read more

Netanyahu: U.S. recognition of strategic areas is ‘changing the course of Jewish history’

If voters stay home on Tuesday, the Blue and White Party will be forming Israel’s next government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. Read more

Evolution

In a recent article, Yale University computer science professor, David Gelernter, said that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has too many holes and is now too old to be a probable scientific theory. Read more

Toss of the coin

Mercifully we are heading down the straight towards the finishing line on 17 September at which time citizens will need to make an informed decision as to which group of politicians will make up our next governing coalition. Read more

Holland slams UN Human Rights Council’s ‘Disproportionate Singling Out of Israel’

Holland on Wednesday slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) “unacceptable and disproportionate singling out of Israel” and it’s notorious the permanent Agenda Item 7. Read more

IAF pounds Hamas targets in Gaza in response to rocket attacks

Israelis Air Force (IAF) warplanes on Wednesday bombed several Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks on several Israeli civilian targets. Read more

Israeli electrician chances upon trove of 4,500-year-old artifacts

An Israeli electrician on the way to work in the north chanced upon fascinating and rare archeological findings. Read more

Israeli organisation charges Facebook of complacency with incitement, demands action

An Israeli organization that monitors Palestinian incitement in the media has charged Facebook with complicity with incitement to terrorism and has issued a demand that it cease from doing and shut down pages that incite to terrorism. Read more

Record turnout for JNF in Sydney

Former Head of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) and CEO of EL Al, Major General (Res.) Elyezer Shkedy addressed a record crowd at the JNF Campaign Dinner in Sydney. Read more

Bringing Jewish life to Budapest

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What does Bolton’s exit mean for U.S. policy on Israel and Iran?

With John Bolton ousted as national security advisor on Tuesday, questions remain regarding the Trump administration’s posture on both the U.S.-Israel relationship and the Iranian threat. Read more

Palestinians are tired of being the only refugees denied the right to resettlement

Hundreds of Palestinian refugees demonstrated outside the Canadian Embassy in Beirut on Sept. 5 to request asylum in Canada or the European Union, the second such protest in the last month. Read more

McDonald’s to acquire Israeli customer-service tech startup Apprente

McDonald’s has signed a deal to acquire the Israeli-founded customer service automation startup Apprente Inc. Read more

Ceremony at Living Memorial site in Jerusalem pays tribute to 9/11 victims

An annual ceremony was held at the 9/11 Living Memorial site in Jerusalem on Tuesday night to honour victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. Read more

Israel welcomes US sanctions on Hamas and Iranian terror leaders

Israel has welcomed the US Department of the Treasury’s announcement that it has sanctioned a list of terrorist leaders from several organizations, including from Hamas and Iran’s Quds Force as “the right way to stop the Terror-State of Iran and its proxies.” Read more

Sep-15 Sydney: Book launch – In Heaven’s Name Why?

Rabbi Chaim Ingram invites the community to the launch of his newest book. Read more

The ‘first Jewish’ president’s antisemitic surrogate

Will Bernie Sanders be America’s first Jewish president? That’s up to Democratic primary voters and then the rest of the electorate should he receive his party’s nomination. Read more

Netanyahu vows to annex settlements after election, starting with Jordan Valley

In a major announcement less than a week before Israel’s general elections on Sept. 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to annex all settlements if re-elected, starting immediately with the Jordan Valley. Read more

Israeli researchers find key to reversing biological clocks – in worms

What if women could pause their biological clocks? Israeli researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s (HUJI) Genetic Department have discovered the switch that may do this – in worms. Read more

Baby named after father killed in May rocket attack

Eight-day-old Pinchas Menachem Pashwazmanon has had his Brit (circumcision) and received the name of his father, killed in Ashdod in May by a rocket launched by Gaza-based terrorists. Read more

R U OK?

The time period we are currently in is full of anticipation for the upcoming high holidays. Read more

Trump seems set to see Netanyahu as Israel’s next Prime Minister

President Trump seems set to see Bibi Netanyahu re-elected as Israel’s next Prime Minister in the upcoming elections to be held on 17 September – the second this year following an indecisive vote in April that left no-one able to form Government. Read more

President Rivlin celebrates his 80th birthday

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin on Monday celebrated his 80^th birthday. The celebrations were lower-key and bittersweet as they occurred only a few weeks after his wife Nechama passed away. Read more

Netanyahu to Iran: ‘Israel knows what you’re doing, when you’re doing it and where you’re doing it’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposed new data which shows that Iran’s has hidden elements of its nuclear program from the world – another secret nuclear site. Read more

It takes a team to support a team

Australia’s proud history of participation at Maccabiah is set to continue at the 21^stMaccabiah Games in 2021. Read more

NSW and Israel have signed a Declaration of Intent to promote bilateral cooperation in health and medicine

Susan Pearce, Acting Secretary, New South Wales Health and Mark Sofer, Israel’s Ambassador to Australia, have signed a Declaration of Intent between the New South Wales Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Health of the State of Israel to promote bilateral cooperation between the two parties in health and medicine. Read more

A Hakoah hero passes away..

Former Hakoah player and coach Gerry Chaldi passed away this week in the Montefiore Home in Sydney’s Hunters Hill on the day his daughter Alex was married in Israel where she lives. Read more

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