Inside story: Behind the Netanyahu-Harris meeting
July 28, 2024 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
This week, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris sent strong signals to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about what to expect from a relationship should she succeed U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Read more
Kamala Harris wants it both ways on Israel
July 28, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Since she became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidency in the last week, backers of Vice President Kamala Harris have been doing their best to redefine her image. Read more
Attack ‘crossed every possible red and black line’: Israeli Druze Fury at Hezbollah
July 28, 2024 by Pesach Benson
Israel’s Druze community was reeling in shock after a Hezbollah rocket killed 11 youths and injured another 29 on a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams on Saturday. Read more
Harris pushes Netanyahu to ease suffering in Gaza
US Vice President Kamala Harris has pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to help reach a Gaza ceasefire deal that would ease the suffering of Palestinian civilians, striking a tougher tone than President Joe Biden. Read more
Netanyahu’s hour
July 26, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
For the better part of an hour on Wednesday, it was possible to believe that the Western world had not lost its mind. Read more
Balak, Bilam and A Donkey
July 26, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
Last Shabbat’s Torah Parsha (portion) of Balak is a stark reminder of how relevant that episode in Jewish history is for all of us today. Read more
Why did we go wrong?
July 26, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
Why are we having difficulty coming to terms with this reality, the realization of how much we are hated ? Read more
Remembering Raoul Wallenberg
July 26, 2024 by Rob Klein
Two teens charged with vandalising Josh Burns’ office
Police have charged two people after the offices of a federal Labor MP were daubed with red graffiti and windows smashed. Read more
Six Australian Jewish Olympians ready for the Games
July 26, 2024 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Six Jewish Aussies are ready to take on the world as Paris Olympics begin. Read more
Martin Indyk, diplomat who sought Mideast peace, dies
July 26, 2024 by AAP J-Wire
Martin Indyk, an author, think tank leader and diplomat who worked toward peace in the Middle East, has died aged 73. Read more
Key Israeli minister backs proposal for ex-Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad run post-war Gaza
July 26, 2024 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
Israeli officials are quietly throwing their support behind a United Arab Emirates proposal to install a former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as the head of a PA administration in post-war Gaza. Read more
Tiberias water park closed amid fears of brain-eating amoeba
July 26, 2024 by Pesach Benson
A popular water park was closed, and dozens of Israelis recently there streamed to emergency rooms amid fears of a rare brain-eating amoeba as another patient was being treated for suspected Naegleria Fowleri.
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Anti-Israel agitators burn US flags, clash with police in protest of Netanyahu
July 25, 2024 by JNS
Anti-Israel protesters violently confronted Capitol Hill police and burned the American flag in front of Union Station on Wednesday afternoon during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hour-long address to Congress. Read more
Were Americans listening to Netanyahu’s message?
July 25, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
What Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to a joint meeting of Congress was important. Read more
Israeli officials hail Netanyahu’s ‘important,’ ‘historic’ speech to Congress
July 25, 2024 by JNS
Israeli government officials praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday following his address to the U.S. Congress. Read more
‘Our victory will be your victory,’ Netanyahu tells US Congress
July 25, 2024 by Akiva van Koningsveld
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received bursts of applause and frequent standing ovations—often from both sides of the aisle—as he delivered an address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday afternoon. Read more
Israel’s national anthem jeered at Olympic soccer match
July 25, 2024 by Reuters
Israel’s national anthem has been loudly jeered ahead of the team’s opening Olympic soccer match against Mali in Paris. Read more
Shabbat Pinchas: Zealots
July 25, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
Albanese – ‘Right thing’: Australia acts against Israeli settlers
July 25, 2024 by AAP J-Wire
Israeli settlers linked to beatings, sexual assaults and the torture of Palestinians in the West Bank have been sanctioned by Australia. Read more
Israel issues travel warning to nationals attending Paris Olympics
July 25, 2024 by Pesach Benson
Israel’s National Security Council issued a travel warning to citizens planning to attend the Paris Olympics, which are due to open on Friday, labelling France as a “level 2 threat.” Read more
Bodies of four abducted soldiers and one Israeli civilian recovered in Khan Yunis
July 25, 2024 by TPS
The bodies of five Israelis killed on October 7 were recovered from Gaza and brought back to Israel, the Israel Defence Forces announced overnight. Read more
Reporter’s Notebook: Kibbutz Be’eri slowly rises from the ashes of Oct. 7
July 25, 2024 by Amelie Botbol - JNS
As we approached the devastated villages of southern Israel, including Kibbutz Be’eri, the GPS navigation system insisted we “continue straight on Road 232,” commonly dubbed “The Road of Death” by survivors of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre. Read more
Antony Blinken: Foreign policy ‘very much’ Kamala Harris’s forte
July 25, 2024 by JNS
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed back against a reporter’s suggestion during a press conference on Tuesday that “foreign policy is not Vice President Harris’s forte.” Read more
Romeo & Julie
July 25, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Fox, Ockenden to carry Australian flag at Games opening
July 24, 2024 by AAP
Canoeing gold medallist Jessica Fox and hockey great Eddie Ockenden will be the Australian flag bearers at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. Read more
Trump to host Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago on Friday
July 24, 2024 by JNS
Former U.S. president Donald Trump plans to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday, the Republican presidential candidate said on Tuesday. Read more
Knesset advances bills to shut down UNRWA in Israel, declare it terror group
July 24, 2024 by JNS
Bipartisan Israeli lawmakers on Monday passed the first readings of three bills seeking to designate the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees as a terrorist group, cancel the legal immunity of its staff members and bar it from operating from Israeli soil altogether. Read more
Biden suggests hostage deal close
July 24, 2024 by JNS
U.S. President Joe Biden called in live to a Kamala Harris campaign event, screened on video to talk about Gazaa. Read more
A Sydney council adopts working definition of antisemitism
July 24, 2024 by J-Wire News Service
Woollahra Council has endorsed and adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Read more
