‘We set them back by years’: IAF continues operation to uproot Hamas’s infrastructure
May 19, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The IDF continued with Operation Guardian of the Walls to uproot Hamas’ military infrastructure in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night while Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists shelled Israeli towns and cities in the vicinity of the Strip. Read more
Should Judaism be modernised?
May 19, 2021 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi… Read more
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process condemns Hamas’ actions
May 19, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Israeli embassy in Wellington has released a statement saying the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process had condemned Hamas. Read more
NZ Green Party MPs uses Hamas slogan
May 19, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The New Zealand Jewish Council has condemned the inflammatory comments and inaccurate statements made by two Green MPs in recent days, which risk stoking antisemitism and endangering Jews in New Zealand. Read more
PA TV reports: IDF warns civilians in Gaza to leave before attack
May 19, 2021 by TPS
Israel’s policy of warning Gazan civilians to evacuate buildings and areas ahead of an Israeli Air Force (IAF) strike on terror targets has been confirmed by the Palestinian Authority (PA), Palestinian Media Watch reported. Read more
Arab Israelis on strike in solidarity with Muslim Rioters, Hamas
May 19, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The High Monitoring Committee of Israel’s Arabs has announced a day of strikes yesterday, apparently in solidarity with the Muslim riots around the country and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Read more
The Muslim riots in data: 10 Synagogues, 112 Jewish homes burned
May 19, 2021 by TPS
At least 10 synagogues were attacked and burned in the past week of Muslim riots across the country while 28 mosques were exposed as weapons storage sites, the data show. Read more
Two dead, 184 injured in bleacher collapse at Givat Ze’ev synagogue
May 18, 2021 by JNS
Two people were killed on Sunday evening during prayers at an unfinished synagogue in the town of Givat Ze’ev, near Jerusalem. Read more
2 killed, 7 injured by direct rocket hit
May 18, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Two people were killed and another seven were injured on Tuesday when a rocket directly hit the agricultural packaging house they were working in at the Eshkol Region, adjacent to the Gaza Strip. Read more
‘AP,’ ‘Al Jazeera’ and the mainstream media are tools in Hamas’s war against Israel
May 18, 2021 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
Journalists are expressing their outrage that the 12-story Al-Jalaa building housing the Gaza headquarters of Associated Press and Al Jazeera was targeted during retaliatory Israeli airstrikes on Saturday. Read more
Facing the real cause of the long Arab war
May 18, 2021 by Caroline Glick - JNS
The time has come for Israel to stop giving a pass to Arab Jew-hatred. Read more
Medical practitioners and nurses in Nazi Germany
May 18, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A travelling exhibition, that showcases the persecution and murder of hundreds of thousands of sick and disabled patients by medical practitioners and nurses in Nazi Germany, has been brought to Brisbane by several academics from the University of Queensland. Read more
IDF: We killed 160 terrorists
May 18, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
After a comparatively quiet night, Gaza-based terrorists proceeded with their attacks on Israeli towns surrounding the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. Read more
Israel honours a Righteous Among the Nations
May 18, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Chargé d’Affaires and acting ambassador for Israel to Australia Jonathan Peled has presented the certificate and medal of being Righteous Among the Nations to the daughters of Cornelia de Reuver whose family saved Bela van Praagh during the Second World War. Read more
Netanyahu to Biden: Determined to complete operation against Hamas
May 18, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by telephone on Monday with US President Joe Biden and told him he was determined to see Operation Guardian of the Walls through and hit Hamas hard. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past: The first Jewish Educator for Sydney
May 18, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Maurice Abraham Cohen, known as Moses was born in 1851 in Ukraine to a Sephardic Jewish family. Read more
Feintooner
May 18, 2021 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Double Jeopardy. Read more
On the other hand
May 18, 2021 by Michael Kuttner
As I write these lines, rockets and explosions are reverberating in many parts of Israel. Read more
Pratt Foundation sponsors US$40,000 Arthur Rubinstein international piano master competition
May 18, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The 16th Arthur Rubinstein international piano competition has been held in Tel Aviv. Read more
Jew lynched by Arab-Israelis in Lod dies of wounds
May 18, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Yigal Yehushoa, an Israeli Jew who was lynched by a violent Muslim mob in the city of Lod in the centre of the country, died of his wounds on Monday. Read more
ECAJ highlights errors in ABC report
May 16, 2021 by J-Wire News Service
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has disputed the findings highlighted in the report by ABC’s Emily Clark An attempt to explain why explosions are again filling the skies over Israel and Gaza. Read more
IAF bombs home of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar
May 16, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Gaza-based terrorists continued with their bombardment of Israeli cities and towns throughout Saturday night, as the IDF progressed with its phased plan to uproot Hamas’ terror infrastructure. Read more
When Hamas fires missiles at Israeli homes, forget nuance
May 16, 2021 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It’s been almost seven years since the 2014 summer war in Gaza, but the discussion of the current fighting going on between Israel and Hamas seems as if it’s being read from the same script. Read more
For Palestinians, the past remains the future
May 16, 2021 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
Judging by the present pattern, the next conflagration over Gaza—and by extension, the still-unresolved Palestinian question—will occur in 2028 or so, just in time for the 80th anniversary of Israel’s creation. And judging by the present mood, the seven years until then will yield as little political progress as have the past 13, a period in which we’ve witnessed two full-scale wars between Israel and Hamas, with a third now in the offing. Read more
An IDF ruse turned Hamas’s tunnels into death traps
May 16, 2021 by Yaakov Lappin
Shortly after midnight, the Israel Defence Spokesperson Unit sent a vague message: “IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip. More details to follow.” Read more
At new Babyn Yar synagogue Ukraine’s Prime Minister of honours Ukrainians who saved Jews during Holocaust
May 16, 2021 by J-Wire News Service
At a ceremony hosted by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre (BYHMC), Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmygal, the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Andrii Yermak and Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko honoured Ukrainians who saved Jews during the Holocaust and announced that those still alive will receive a lifelong monthly state stipend, in recognition of their heroism. Read more
Pro-Israel rallies in New Zealand
May 16, 2021 by J-Wire News Service
Rallies will be held next Sunday (23 May) at 3:00 PM in Auckland, Wellington and Hastings in order to show publicly support for Israel’s right to defend herself and for her right to respond to unwarranted aggression from the Islamist terror groups operating from Gaza. Read more
Veteran Israeli diplomat Dore Gold discusses current Gaza crisis for AIJAC
May 16, 2021 by J-Wire News Service
Ambassador Dore Gold, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, former Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, proved an update on the situation in Israel for the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council’s (AIJAC’s) latest webinar on May 12. Read more
Strong Israeli Government can curb domestic Arab Jew-hatred
May 16, 2021 by David Singer
The display of unadulterated Jew-hatred shown by a large number of Israel’s Arab residents during the past week – provoking equally condemnatory retaliatory responses by Jewish individuals – can only be dealt with and eradicated by a strong Israeli Government. Read more
A statement from Benjamin Netanyahu
May 16, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued an update on the continuing conflict with Hamas in Gaza. Read more
