Save a Child’s Heart conducts its 5,555-lifesaving procedure on a 2-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza

To date, Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) has treated 5,554 children, 50 per cent of whom are Palestinian. This week, the Israeli-based international humanitarian organization will perform it’s 5,555 lifesaving procedure on little Mahmad from Gaza. Read more

Arabs states draw closer to Israel to counter non-Arab powers Turkey and Iran

The decision by three Arab states to make peace with Israel can be credited both to efforts by the Trump administration and the recognition by these Sunni states that their security would improve against the ongoing threats they face from Turkey and Iran. Read more

IAEA says Iran continues to violate 2015 nuclear deal

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that Iran is still in violation of the 2015 nuclear deal by continuing to increase its low-enriched uranium stockpile. Read more

Should we care if Biden cools off relations with Saudis?

It’s the greatest of ironies. It wasn’t that long ago that Saudi Arabia was thought of as an implacable enemy of Israel and the Jewish people. Read more

Jimmy Weldon, a liberator of Buchenwald, has a lot to say on life

Jimmy Weldon, 97, is an American voice actor and ventriloquist known for portraying Yakky Doodle and other Hanna-Barbera characters on “The Yogi Bear Show.” Read more

Paul Griffiths presents his credentials

New Australian ambassador to Israel Paul Griffiths has presented his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin. Read more

International task force discuss online antisemitism

The Inter-Parliamentary Task Force on Online Antisemitism met on Wednesday morning for its first virtual briefing with community organisations. Read more

Massive response

More than 500 acceptances have been received for tonight’s tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks who passed away last weekend at the age of 72. Read more

Vic Alhadeff honoured in NSW parliament

NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay has hosted a morning tea at State Parliament House with Labor Party shadow ministers and MPs to honour NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff, who has announced his resignation. Read more

UIA Australia Raises $2.4 Million on Giving Day

UIA Australia has raised $2.4 million on its inaugural crowdfunding Giving Day using Charidy’s online platform last week. Read more

American formerly Julia Gillard’s Chief of Staff: The US Election: What Now?

The US election and its aftermath will be the focus of next week’s NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum. Read more

The Ausraeli community in Australia: a new report

Israeli emigrants to Australia, aka Ausraelis, have built a vibrant community which operates within and outside the wider Jewish community. Read more

A man who exemplified what it meant to be a Jewish leader

You didn’t have to agree with everything Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said or wrote to understand the value of what he was trying to teach. Read more

UNRWA says it has run out of funds, cannot pay employees

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday that it has run out of funding to pay the salaries of its staff across the Middle East. Read more

PA leader Saeb Erekat dies of COVID-19 in Israeli hospital

Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the PLO’s Executive Committee and chief negotiator with Israel for the past 20 years died in an Israeli hospital on Tuesday after contracting Coronavirus (COVID-19) last month and after his health condition deteriorated.
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Mark Dreyfus speaks in parliament on Yitzhak Rabin

Federal Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has spoken to parliament on the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Read more

Biden administration will likely seek to make its own stamp on Mideast, say experts

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s yet-to-be-confirmed victory over incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump has ushered in a flurry of questions in Israel over what a Biden-Harris administration would look like and how it would differ from the Obama administration specifically with regard to Israel. Read more

Israel’s president shouldn’t obfuscate the particularity of antisemitism

To mark the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted a global memorial, live-streamed from his official residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Read more

First direct tourist flight from Israel to UAE touches down in Dubai

A flydubai flight carrying Israeli tourists landed in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday at the Dubai International Airport. Read more

Pottery juglet containing 1,000-year-old gold coins unearthed in Jerusalem

A small pottery jar containing four pure gold coins dating back to the Early Islamic period, more than 1,000 years ago, was unearthed during archaeological excavations in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Monday. Read more

Let There Be Light

Thousands of people around the world took part today in March of the Living’s global interfaith campaign “Let There Be Light”, to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Read more

Report: Trump administration to ramp up pressure on Iran before end of term

Elliott Abrams, the US Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela, met on Sunday in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

Palestinians sigh in relief after Biden victory: ready to resume negotiations and coordination without preconditions

A sigh of relief and satisfaction, disgust for President Donald Trump and anticipation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s weakening, along with fears of renewed tension between Fatah and Hamas – this is how the Palestinian arena reacted to Joe Biden’s victory. Read more

Over 40,000 send flowers for Shabbat to ‘COVID-19 heroes’ as part of Shabbat Project

Thousands of bouquets of flowers were delivered in time for this past Shabbat, including to Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, doctors, frontline healthcare workers, volunteer first responders, Lone Soldiers, elderly people who are isolated during the pandemic, and others. Read more

Can a community accept gifts from crooks? Ask the rabbi

Well…can it? Read more

More congratulations for the Biden-Harris camp

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council and the Zionist Federation of Australia have congratulated Joe Biden on his election as the President of the United States, and his running mate Kamala Harris, who becomes America’s first female vice-President. Read more

Cognitive impairment and dementia: Understanding the disease – support for patients and carers

Sydney’s Wolper Jewish Hospital’s Wellbeing Program is tackling the topic of Dementia. Read more

Israel to build new community near Gaza Strip area

Israel will build a new community in the Sdot Negev Regional Council area, adjacent to the Gaza Strip, the government announced Sunday. Read more

Abbas congratulates Biden as Palestinians celebrate Trump’s defeat

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden in a statement on Sunday and alluded to the possibility that the P.A. would end its boycott of the administration in Washington when he assumes office. Read more

Still stuck in a time warp

Some of you will probably be familiar with a charming German movie called “Goodbye, Lenin,” the story of which concerns a woman in Communist-ruled East Germany who falls into a coma and wakes up a few months later in a unified, democratic Federal Republic of Germany. Read more

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