Sovereignty may be the price for normalisation with Riyadh

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that “we will one day be able to have railways connect Saudi Arabia and Israel,” just hours after a New York Times piece suggested that the kingdom was expecting the Jewish state to make significant concessions to the Palestinians as a precondition for normalization. Read more

$40million for faith-based institutions – applications now open

Applications are now open for the Albanese Government’s Securing Faith-Based Places grant program. Read more

Israeli targeted procedure destroys bone marrow cancer cells

In a groundbreaking development in the fight against myeloma, Israeli researchers developed a targeted procedure to effectively destroy cancer within bone marrow. Read more

Thousands protest against Hamas in rare Gaza demos

Several thousand people have briefly taken to the streets across the Gaza Strip to protest chronic power outages and difficult living conditions, providing a rare public show of discontent with the territory’s Hamas government. Read more

Parade (Soundworks Productions)

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

What is one to make of Albert Einstein’s statement that “The Jewish God is simply a negation of superstition”?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine key to a Saudi-Israel peace

President Biden and New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman are attempting to resuscitate the failed solution they have both championed for decades to end the 100-years old Jewish-Arab conflict: Creating an independent Palestinian Arab state between Israel and Jordan (“the two-state solution”). Read more

UIA Zoom to feature Israeli constitutional expert

Professor Suzie Navot will be the special guest on UIA’s tomorrow’s weekly online Israel Update. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Trains, Pains and Saudi Deals

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Israel opposition seeks 18-month judicial reforms halt

The leader of Israel’s parliamentary opposition has demanded that the government freeze its judicial overhaul for 18 months if it wants to resume negotiations on a consensus formula for the changes. Read more

Israel announces $27 billion high-speed rail project

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced a mammoth 100 billion shekel ($27 billion) plan to link the north and south of the country by rail. Read more

Ben-Gvir ascends Temple Mount for Tisha B’Av

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Thursday in observance of Tisha B’Av. Read more

Israel divided as Netanyahu defends judicial reforms

The Knesset’s decision to trim Supreme Court powers to overrule government actions as part of a planned judicial overhaul will not hurt Israel’s democracy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. Read more

Messianism and the 9th of Av

Regardless of how well or poorly Jews have integrated into their host societies, in each generation, they have fasted over the two destructions of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 BCE and 70 CE. Read more

June (Fabricated Rooms)

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Why compromise is unlikely in Israel’s crisis

The night before Monday’s Knesset vote on the first of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, a video filmed on the escalators in Jerusalem’s central train station went viral on social media. Read more

The day after

Trying to predict events when it comes to Israel and the region is fraught with uncertainty. Read more

Israel’s top court to look at reforms in September

Israel’s Supreme Court says it will wait until September to address the recently passed law aimed at weakening the judiciary. Read more

Shabbat VaEtchanan: Law or Lore

The reading from the Torah this week is remarkable in that it combines the two most important texts in the Torah. Read more

Israel’s president speaks of both animosity and unity

As Israel prepared for the start of Tisha B’Av, a 25-hour fast day that commemorates the destruction of the Jewish temples and other historical calamities that have impacted the Jewish people, Israeli President Isaac Herzog took to social media to urge understanding, cooperation and kinship in the face of deep divisions in the country over judicial reform. Read more

Evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple unearthed in Jerusalem

Tangible evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple and the devastating events that unfolded in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago has come to light with the discovery of a rare coin in Jerusalem’s City of David National Park. Read more

Israeli demonstrators to ramp up judicial law protests

Demonstrations against and for Israel’s judicial overhaul have paused for a traditional Jewish fast, with national leaders calling for reconciliation while activists vow to return to the streets and step up pressure on the government. Read more

JCA refutes media report that it had funded the “Yes” campaign

Sydney’s Jewish Communal Appeal has taken issue with national spreadsheet The Australian, which reported that the JCA had donated $200,000 of community funds to the “Yes” campaign ahead of The Voice referendum.” Read more

Jewish students make contribution to countering antisemitism

Students from Leibler Yavneh College were among 15 secondary schools from around Victoria presenting their ideas about diversity and inclusion to politicians and community leaders at the inaugural Victorian Youth Summit at the University of Melbourne Read more

Tisha B’Av at the Western Wall in 1967

We publish archived JNF photos of Tisha B’Av shortly after the liberation of the Western Wall during the 1967 Six-Day War. Read more

Netanyahu takes hit in polls as crisis deepens

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suffered a hit in the polls over a judicial law his hard-right coalition has championed as he attempts to navigate his gravest domestic crisis. Read more

Rabbi’s daughter committed suicide – now he helps others

After tragically losing his 18-year-old daughter to suicide, Rabbi Shalom Hammer embarked on a mission to commemorate her by helping others with mental health issues. Read more

Pepper has been found

Police report that Pepper Stern has been found. Read more

Israeli military waits to see if reservists refuse to report for duty

On the day after Israel’s coalition unilaterally passed into law the so-called “reasonability bill,” part of its controversial judicial reform plan, Israel Defense Forces senior command is now in uncharted territory. Read more

Real Madrid opens Jerusalem soccer clinic

Spanish superclub Real Madrid has opened its youth training camp in Jerusalem, welcoming teenage soccer players from Israel, Morocco, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. Read more

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