Israel complying with law as it fights ‘depraved’ Hamas

Israel is in full compliance with international law as it cuts off critical supplies to Gaza and bombs the territory in its war against Hamas, Ambassador Amir Maimon in Australia says. Read more

The illuminated Opera House and the Palestinian flag flying in Canterbury-Bankstown

NSW Premier Chris Minns has conceded he was not fully aware of the security risk posed by illuminating the Opera House sails in Israeli colours and Israel’s ambassador to Australia understands a Palestinian flag being blown in Sydney. Read more

Biden changes stance on adopting UN two-state solution

President Biden has seemingly changed his mind following the horrific Simchat Torah massacre and hostage-taking in Israel on 7 October. Read more

Macron suggests anti-IS coalition fight Hamas

French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed that an international coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria widens its scope to include the fight against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. Read more

Beware of media interviews with returning Gaza hostages, expert warns

A mental health expert cautioned journalists to be very careful about interviewing Israeli captives released by Hamas. Read more

Kfar Aza, Be’eri and Hamas’s own footage stand witness to a massacre

Israel and a significant portion of the international community have been deeply affected by the events of Saturday, Oct. 7, when Hamas carried out a coordinated land, air and sea attack on multiple communities on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. Read more

Photos of captive Israelis on seats of El Al humanitarian delivery flight

An EL AL passenger plane arrived at Ben Gurion Airport yesterday without passengers. Read more

Self defence not measured by Gaza deaths: Israel’s ambassador

The legitimacy of Israel’s attacks against Gaza in retaliation to Hamas cannot be measured in innocent lives lost, Israel’s top diplomat in Australia says. Read more

‘I went through hell’: Freed hostage describes 17 days of Hamas captivity

“I went through hell that we never thought it would get to this,” said Yocheved Lifshitz in her first meeting with reporters on Monday after being freed by Hamas the previous night. Read more

A plaudit for barrister Adam Butt

Professor Suzanne Rutland pens an article on Adam Butt, the barrister who represented five Jewish students who had been bullied through antisemitism at Melbourne’s Brighton Secondary College and took the Victorian Government to court. Read more

Dry Bones: Generations

Hamas’s Oct 7 pogrom has changed us. Read more

Released hostages Nurit Cooper, 79, and Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, en route to hospital

Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Gal Hirsch, Israeli coordinator for the captives and missing, confirmed on Monday that the Hamas terrorist organization had released Nurit Cooper, 79, and Yocheved Lifshitz, 85. Read more

Ceasefire advocates are Hamas’s useful idiots

It’s been more than two weeks since the atrocities of Oct. 7 shocked the world with the deliberate cruelty and barbarism exhibited by Hamas terrorists as they conducted what has been aptly described as pogroms inside Israel. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Aaron Bolot – award-winning architect  from the 1930s to 1960s

Aaron Bolotinskiy, later known as Bolot, was born on 14 February 1900 in Crimea – near the Black Sea – and, together with his family, migrated and settled in Brisbane in 1911. Read more

Three generations wiped out by Hamas in Kibbutz Be’eri

A 73-year-old grandmother, her 43-year-old son and barely 10-month granddaughter. Three generations of one Israeli family brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 were laid to rest Sunday side by side, the infant sharing the same coffin as her father. Read more

‘The payback was overwhelming’: News services apologize for Gaza coverage

The New York Times on Monday admitted that its reporting on the Oct. 17 blast at the Al Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza “relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified.” The apology comes on the heels of a similar apology from BBC News. Read more

Tent city for displaced israelis being built in Ramat Gan

A tent city is being built in Ramat Gan to house some of the more than 200,000 Israelis internally displaced by the war with terrorists from the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Read more

Foreign Minister bringing families of kidnapped Israelis to UN

Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen will speak about the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7 and Israel’s response at the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York today (Tue). Read more

Israel: 310 Hamas positions attacked in last day, number of captives rises to 222

Briefing reporters on Monday, Israel Defence Forces Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said air strikes hit 310 Hamas positions inside Gaza during the past day. Read more

Egypt offers to set up tent city inside Gaza

Fearing a mass migration into the Sinai, Egypt offered on Monday morning to set up a tent city inside Gaza for Palestinians displaced by the war. Read more

Meanwhile back in Australia

In Melbourne, Nazi salutes are now illegal, a crane shows the Palestinian colours. In Sydney, an  ugly beach incident and an unwanted musical interlude. Read more

Human tragedy in Israel-Gaza deeply distressing: Wong

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has reflected on ‘disturbing rhetoric’ about Israel and Gaza as Australia backs a global statement on the conflict. Read more

For Israeli war evacuees, time stands still

Did anyone ever tell you that time has no meaning during a war? That’s how it feels in Israel as we enter the third week of the war against Hamas. Read more

Israel didn’t start this war, but Israel must finish it

On October 7, 2023, Hamas jihadists from Gaza malevolently carried out sheer wanton attacks on Israel. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Global screaming heats up hatred Read more

Murdered and missing in Hamas attack include citizens from 41 nations

Citizens from at least 41 countries were murdered or taken hostage by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, according to the latest statistics released by the Israeli government. Read more

Biden speaks to freed American-Israeli hostages

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Saturday with Judith and Natalie Raanan, freed the previous night from captivity in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Read more

HaShomer HaChadash recruits volunteers to work in agriculture close to Gaza

From the moment the war in the south began, HaShomer HaChadash established a headquarters recruiting volunteers to assist in agricultural work and the protection of agricultural areas. Read more

‘Too many red lines were crossed: Israeli hospital bans BBC News crew from premises

Citing BBC News’s “biased coverage” of the Gaza war, staff at the Galilee Medical Centre in Nahariya banned a film crew from entering the hospital on Saturday, according to a spokesperson. Read more

A Shabbat at the beach but guests fail to show

There were two hundred chairs at one long table, with the photo of each guest at the back of a chair. Read more

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