Hamas is weakening, but the campaign against it will be lengthy

While the Israel Defence Forces is gaining ground against Hamas by the day, destroying it as a military force will take time, according to former IDF officers. Read more

World Jewish Congress welcomes Meta Oversight Board decision on Holocaust denial content

Meta’s Oversight Board is to address Holocaust denial content more seriously on its platforms, Facebook and Instagram. Read more

POSITION VACANT – SYDNEY

The Sydney Jewish Museum seeks a full-time experienced Fundraising Manager Read more

World number of Holocaust survivors

There are about 245,000 Holocaust survivors alive, according to a new Claims Conference report. Read more

Knesset caucus hears testimony on Hamas’s brutal sexual violence

“There will be some difficult things to digest here, so take a deep breath.” Read more

Plan for one-month Gaza truce makes progress

Israel and Hamas have moved closer to an agreement on a 30-day ceasefire in Gaza when Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners would be released, sources tell Reuters, as Israel presses ahead with its assault on southern Gaza’s main city of Khan Younis. Read more

Malevo

A Melbourne entertainment review by Alex First Read more

Hamas rejects offer of two-month ceasefire for release of all hostages

Hamas rejected an Israeli proposal for a two-month ceasefire in exchange for the staged release of the 136 remaining hostages being held in the Gaza Strip, a senior Egyptian official told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Read more

Dry Bones: With allies like these …

An Israeli twist on the age-old adage, “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” Read more

Israel: Gaza goals unchanged after 24 troops killed

Twenty-four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Israel’s worst day of losses in Gaza, the military says, as its forces encircled southern Gaza’s main city, Khan Younis. Read more

Twenty-one soldiers killed in blast, building collapse

Twenty-one Israeli soldiers were killed on Monday when a blast ripped through a Gaza compound being prepared for demolition. Read more

Joseph Brender – a pillar of Sydney’s Jewish community

Philanthropist Joseph Brender was not only a major donor to charities in Australia but was also a serious worker for causes in which he believed. Read more

Gaza hostage relatives burst into Israeli parliament

A group of relatives of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza has stormed a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem, demanding MPs do more to try to free their loved ones. Read more

Penny Wong announces sanctions against Middle East terror groups

The federal government has slapped sanctions on three entities and 12 people with links to prescribed terrorist organisations Hamas, Hizballah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad following attacks in the Middle East. Read more

The last question for Rabbi Apple – and a tribute from the Great Synagogue

Q. Is there a Jewish view about women using make-up?     Ask the rabbi. Read more

Jewish, Muslim women denounce world silence on Hamas’s sexual attacks

A Jewish beauty queen from Israel and a Muslim doctor from Britain denounced Hamas’s sexual violence and the silence of feminist groups at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Read more

Israeli barmitzvah boy forgoes party, treats 200 soldiers to dinner

Amichai Jackson, a bar mitzvah boy from the Gush Etzion community of Elazar, decided that in lieu of a party to mark the milestone event, his parents should use the money to treat Israeli soldiers to dinner. Read more

Gandel Rehabilitation Centre in Jerusalem treating war-wounded

Hadassah representatives clapping and singing “Shalom Aleichem” welcomed the first patients into the Gandel Rehabilitation Centre at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus marked the phased opening of the facility. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Two-State Haste makes Waste. Read more

Biden opens UN door to Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

President Biden has seemingly indicated that he is now prepared to consider backing the normalisation of relationships between Israel and Saudi Arabia – if both acknowledge they favour implementing any solution – other than Biden’s preferred two-state solution – to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read more

Nova Festival victims’ families plant trees where they lost their loved ones

Grieving families have planted trees in the parking area for the Nova Festival, where they lost family members in the October 7 massacre. Read more

The Iron Claw

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Israel has repeatedly been mugged by reality

At its core, Zionism is all about Jewish self-determination. Read more

An icon dies – Rabbi Raymond Apple passes away in Jerusalem

Sydney’s The Great Synagogue community has been saddened to hear of the passing of Rabbi Raymond Apple AO, who was the spiritual head of the congregation for over three decades. Read more

Israeli cycling team member wins Tour Down Under

Welshman Stevie Williams won the last stage of the Tour Down Under to confirm his victory in the overall title. Read more

Thousands take to Israel streets to protest Netanyahu

Thousands of people have demonstrated in Israel against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

On the other hand

“The avocados have arrived.” Read more

Priscilla

A movie review by Alex First Read more

World In Crisis

According to Bartelby in the Economist last week, we are heading towards a global disaster. Read more

UN head: Netanyahu won’t answer my phone calls

António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday from Davos, Switzerland, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined to take his phone calls since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7. Read more

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