20th commemoration of the Maccabiah bridge collapse

In 1997, Amanda Montag was nine weeks pregnant with daughter Jemima when she fell into the Yarkon River following the collapse a makeshift bridge carrying the Australian contingent. Four athletes lost their lives. Read more

Magen David Adom providing medical facilities for the Maccabiah

For the past few weeks MDA has been preparing to medically secure the 20^th Maccabiah events that will begin with a festive ceremony at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. Among other things, MDA, as Israel’s national rescue organisation, will medically secure all attendants and participants of the Maccabiah. Read more

Come to India, Moshe

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have met with Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were murdered in the 26 November 2008 terrorist attack on the Mumbai Chabad House. Read more

British royals to tour Holocaust sites in Poland and Germany

British royals Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will tour several sites memorialising victims of the Holocaust during a visit to Germany and Poland later this month. Read more

WJC decries UNESCO vote challenging Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem

The World Jewish Congress has denounced a UNESCO World Heritage Committee vote in favour of a motion challenging Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem, and urged member states convening in Krakow to vote against a Palestinian request denying Jewish historical ties to the Old City of Hebron. Read more

Palestinian Authority rebuilds memorial for Palestinian terrorist demolished by IDF

After IDF soldiers last Friday demolished a memorial in Jenin erected in honor of Palestinian terrorist Khalid Nazzal, Palestinian Authority (PA) activists built a new memorial stone at the same site the next day and constructed a second memorial for Nazzal in Ramallah. Read more

President Rivlin says all Jews have a special place in their hearts for the Kotel

President Reuven Rivlin has published an open letter following a number of letters and messages received by the President’s Office on the issue of the recent tensions and disagreements surrounding the Western Wall. Read more

The WJC emphasises that peace between Palestinians and Israelis must be reached through a direct diplomatic process and cannot be imposed by external parties

The World Jewish Congress has expressed its deep concern over a one-sided two-day forum being held by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the UN headquarters in New York, under the banner “Ending the Occupation.” Read more

New firewall developed at BGU to protect android phones from hardware security threat

Cyber security researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed an innovative firewall program that adds a missing layer of security in the communication between Android cellphone components and the phone’s central processing unit. Read more

Israeli actress Gal Gadot ranked most popular celebrity on social media

Israeli actress and “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot was ranked first on the latest edition of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top Actors list. Read more

First rocket fired into Israel from Gaza since March

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched retaliatory airstrikes on two Hamas terror targets in Gaza yesterday [Tue], in response to the first rocket fired into Israeli territory since March. Read more

Visas for foreign entrepreneurs at 12 innovation Landing Pads

As part of the Innovation Visas program, entrepreneurs may reside in Israel for a period of up to 24 months, during which time he/she may submit a request to the Israel Innovation Authority’s “Tnufa” support program. Read more

An extraordinary 900-year-old collection of women’s jewellery

So just how did 900-year-old rings, bracelets, earrings and hairpins come to be in the kitchen of a Crusader fortress tower in Modiʻin? The question may not be one of those in the local student’s next history exam, but it certainly occupies them as they participate in an archaeological excavation close to home. Read more

The bird sanctuary in the heart of a city

The  Bird-watching Centre in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park’s Rosh Tzippor Forest is  now reality thanks to JNF Australia and one of its major donors. Read more

Anatomy of a terrorist attack

23-yr-old border policewoman Hadas Malka was stabbed on duty in Jerusalem. Mohammed Abed al-Rahman was the Magen David Adom paramedic who stubbornly fought for her life…in vain. Read more

After London mosque attack, Jewish groups express solidarity with Muslims

Several British Jewish groups expressed solidarity with the U.K.’s Muslim community following an attack outside London’s Finsbury Park Mosque Monday, where a van ploughed into a crowd of Muslim worshipers as they left prayer services just after midnight. Read more

BBC apologises for misleading terror attack headline after Netanyahu complains

Following complaints by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a BBC headline on the recent Palestinian terror attacks in Jerusalem, the British news organisation recanted and apologised. Read more

Three Israeli teens arrested for desecrating Australian WWI cemetery

Three Israeli teenagers were arrested Saturday after being caught vandalising headstones in the Be’er Sheva War Cemetery in southern Israel, the burial site of Australian military from World War I. Read more

Netanyahu comforts murdered policewoman’s family

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara have paid a condolence call on the family of the late Hadas Malka, who was murdered in a terrorist attack at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on Friday evening. Read more

Netanyahu mulls shutting down Al Jazeera offices in Israel

Following moves by Jordan and Saudi Arabia to shut down the Al Jazeera broadcaster’s offices in their countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deliberating the possibility of closing the Qatar-based network’s operations in Israel. Read more

Netanyahu calls for dismantling of UNRWA after terror tunnel discovery

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday called for the dismantling of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), following the discovery of a Hamas terror tunnel dug underneath two of the U.N. body’s schools in Gaza. Read more

MDA’s Make a Wish Ambulance fulfils Dor’s wish to watch the Wonder Woman movie

Dor Tsitsishvili, 16, from Beer Sheva, is battling cancer and requires constant medical supervision. Dor’s greatest love is superheroes – he is passionate about comic books and adores Wonder Woman. Read more

Nikki Haley visits Yad Vashem

The U.S. Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations Nikki Haley has visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more

Six Day War: Day Six

Jubilation as the war ends. Israel, small and only 19 years old, was now the Middle East’s dominant military power. Read more

Anti-Semitic arson attacks hit Manchester kosher restaurants

Following two arson attacks on kosher restaurants in Manchester, U.K., police have labeled the incidents as “antisemitic hate crimes.” Read more

Six Day War: Day 5

Why did Israel ascend the Golan Heights, and why did the Egyptian public forgave Nasser for their defeat. Read more

Record May for tourism to Israel

May 2017 has been a record-breaking month for tourists visiting Israel, with the highest figures ever recorded for the month of May…347,000 tourist entries were recorded, 16.7% increase on May 2016. Read more

WJC delivers petition calling for Hamas to return the bodies of fallen soldiers to Israel

World Jewish Congress CEO and Executive Vice President Robert Singer has delivered a petition holding more than 11,000 signatures to ICRC President Dr. Peter Maurer at a meeting in Geneva, asking the International Committee of the Red Cross to pressure the Hamas terror organisation into returning the bodies of fallen Israeli soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin to their families. Read more

Six Day War: Day Four

It was a totally unprecedented outcome: Israel had defeated Egypt and Jordan and reunited Jerusalem! Israelis and Jews worldwide were overjoyed. Israel had averted near certain annihilation, and acquired territory that was strategically critical and historically meaningful. Read more

Nikki Haley meets the PM and the President

The United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Nikki R. Haley has met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem. Read more

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