Uri Geller Museum: A (bent) spoonful of celebrity fun in Jaffa

Two thousand twisted pieces of cutlery adorn a 1976 Cadillac parked in the new Uri Geller Museum in Jaffa. A Guinness World Record-winning bent spoon, weighing 11 tons, dominates the museum courtyard. Read more

Miriam and Bro – new friends for Melbourne’s Jewish student

Melbourne’s Chabad Youth has appointed two new directors and shluchim to its Chabad Campus. Read more

US, Israel remain at loggerheads over consulate to Palestinians in downtown Jerusalem

Israel and the United States remain at an impasse about American plans to reopen the U.S. consulate on Agron Road in downtown Jerusalem that was closed under former President Donald Trump. Read more

Report: UK cuts UNRWA funding by more than 50 percent due to incitement

Britain has cut its funding of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees by a little more than 50 percent, according to a report in The Guardian. Read more

Sheikh Jarrah family agrees to return home to Jewish owners

With an Israeli High Court decision in the Sheikh Jarrah-Shimon HaTzadik eviction dispute still pending, another Arab family living in the eastern Jerusalem neighbourhood has reached an agreement with the Jewish owners of its home to hand over the property. Read more

Political life after the budget

For the first time in three years, the State of Israel has a budget. Read more

Israel’s ambassador to UK forced to flee violent students at London’s LSE

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom Tzipi Hotovely has been forced to flee London’s School of Economics and Political Science on Monday night after being violently assaulted by students. Read more

Kristallnacht

November 9-10, 1938, marked the onset of the Holocaust. Read more

78 Arabs arrested in police’s largest arms bust in history

Around 1,600 Israeli police officers raided dozens of targets across Israel on Tuesday morning and arrested 78 major weapons dealers in the Arab sector, the largest operation of its kind against illegal weapons trafficking since the establishment of the state. Read more

Lapid meets with J Street-led Democrat trip, including vocal critics of Israel

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met with a visiting congressional delegation of Democrats on Monday organized by J Street. Read more

On 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Austria dedicates new memorial to murdered Jews

On the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht and in a clear gesture that it is finally taking public responsibility for its past, the government of Austria unveiled the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial, its first public Holocaust memorial. Located in Ostarrichi Park in the centre of Vienna. Read more

BDS supporters harass Miss South Africa on competing in Israel-hosted pageant

The beauty queen who will represent South Africa in the 2021 “Miss Universe” pageant set to take place in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat is facing online harassment by supporters of the BDS movement against Israel. Read more

Celebration of Special Religious Education

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Darren Bark opened the 5^th Celebration of Special Religious Education (SRE) – held online this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, with over 800 participants logging in. Read more

Bennett’s diplomatic tsunami

Naftali Bennett’s government’s diplomatic policies came into full view in recent weeks and were put to the test at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow last week. The results are unmistakable. Read more

Ford fitting its new trucks with Israeli water-from-air tech

Ford has announced that it will install small Israeli-developed water-from-air units on its new vehicles, boosting the off-road experience the truck can provide. Read more

Hamas sentences two to death for collaborating with Israel

The Hamas military court in the Gaza Strip sentenced on Monday three residents to death, two of them for collaborating with Israeli intelligence and one for drug trafficking. Read more

Major Israeli food businesses Shufersal and Strauss under investigation for price fixing

Two of Israel’s largest companies, The Shufersal supermarket chain and the Strauss food production company known largely for its dairy products, are currently under investigation for price-fixing schemes. Read more

Chief Of Staff: IDF ‘accelerating’ operational readiness to deal with Iran

The IDF is “accelerating” its readiness to contend with Iran’s nuclear and military threat to Israel while contending with six arenas simultaneously, IDF Chief of Staff Avi Kochavi told the Knesset. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Eliezer Levi Montefiore — talented artist and patron of the arts

Eliezer, the son of Isaac Levi and Hanna, was born in the West Indies in 1820. Read more

NSW Government delays Secord bill to ban Nazi symbols and flags until next year

In the NSW State Parliament today,  NSW Shadow Minister for Police and Counter-Terrorism Walt Secord slammed the Perrottet Government for delaying the bill to ban Nazi flags and symbols – saying there was a “small pocket” opposed to the legislation. Read more

Israeli defence company Steadicopter unveils new unmanned helicopter

The Israeli defence company Steadicopter Ltd. unveiled a new unmanned helicopter on Tuesday named Black Eagle 50 Electric. Read more

Ben-Gurion Day to honour Jewish state’s founding father, host of Israeli achievers

The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will commemorate Ben-Gurion Day on Nov. 10 with an awards ceremony attended by Israeli President Isaac Herzog on the BGU Marcus Family Campus. Read more

Israel’s first-ever Olympic medalist to head Israeli Olympic Committee

Israel’s first-ever Olympic medalist is breaking new ground once again, with her appointment as the first woman to ever head the country’s Olympic Committee. Read more

Israel’s top-ranked cycling team makes its long-awaited homecoming

When Team Israel Start-Up Nation cyclist Guy Niv connects with his fellow riders, it usually requires flying from Ben-Gurion International Airport to Europe or some other far-off destination for a training ride or a race. Read more

Three generations convert to Judaism together on the same day and an orthodox chupah for octogenerians

Boris and Ludmila emigrated to Israel from Russia in the 1990s, as part of the great wave of aliyah from the former Soviet Union. Read more

For the first time, Israel approves entry of hi-tech workers from PA

Israel’s Cabinet decided on Sunday to approve a quota of workers from the Palestinian Authority (PA) to work in the high-tech sector in Israel. Read more

Tourist groups can enter Israel without 3rd vaccine

The Corona Cabinet approved on Sunday evening a new outline that will enable groups of tourists vaccinated with two COVID-19 vaccines to enter Israel, even if more than six months have passed from the time they received the vaccine, and even if they have not received the third vaccine. Read more

Haley, Pence warn Israel not to rely on Biden

“Israel should not count on Biden to stop the Iran nuclear program,” Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the United Nations, warned, calling on Israel to defend itself. Read more

PA to declare Israeli organisations as terrorist entities in response to Israel’s proscribing of 6 PFLP-Linked ones

The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Saturday that it is preparing lists of “settler organizations” operating in Judea and Samaria with a goal of prosecuting them. Read more

Palestinians demand the reopening of the American consulate in Jerusalem: behind the scenes, what America demands from the PA in exchange for opening the consulate

The Palestinian Authority is losing patience and is demanding that the United States fulfil its promise to reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem, this is according to various sources in the PA and the PLO. Read more

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