JNF combines with Triguboff to aid Bedouins
The Jewish National Fund of Australia is to join Sydney property billionaire’s Harry Triguboff’s initiative in investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Bedouin sector in Southern Israel. Read more
‘World must not be silent in face of abhorrent slaughter’
April 10, 2017 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Sunday condemned the deadly terrorist attacks carried out against two different Coptic churches in the Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria, which killed at least 40 people gathered for Sunday services. Read more
Simon Wiesenthal Centre honours Shimon Peres
April 9, 2017 by Agencies
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre and its Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has awarded the Medal of Valor posthumously to the late Ninth President of Israel, Shimon Peres. Read more
Jerusalem mayor cancels San Francisco uni lecture
April 9, 2017 by Agencies
Jerusalem’s mayor Nir Barkat has cancelled his lecture scheduled on Friday at San Francisco State University citing the double standard of protecting the rights of anti-Israel demonstrators and denying debate. Read more
David’s Sling operational
April 3, 2017 by Agencies
The IAF’s newest air defence system is about to make Israel’s skies a lot safer. Read more
WJC: “The State of Israel is not up for negotiation”
March 30, 2017 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress and Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations on Wednesday hosted more than 2,000 dignitaries, public officials, NGO representatives at the UN headquarters for the second Ambassadors Against BDS summit. Read more
Diaspora member to light Jewish People’s Torch in Jerusalem
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification, the Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev has announced that this year one member of the World Jewry will be chosen to light the Jewish People’s Torch at the Independence Day Ceremony on Mt. Herzl. Read more
Students unearth a 2000-year-old Jewish Settlement near Beit Shemesh
March 28, 2017 by Agencies
240 Israeli students are involved in unearthing exciting archaeological finds at a site at which the remains of a Jewish settlement dating to the Second Temple period there have been found including an extensive complex of ritual baths and underground hiding refuges. Read more
First Cathay flight from Hong Kong arrives in Tel Aviv
March 27, 2017 by Agencies
Cathay Pacific, one of the world’s leading airlines has inaugurated a new route today between Tel Aviv and Hong Kong. Read more
One antisemitic post on social media every 83 seconds
March 26, 2017 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress has found that more than 382,000 antisemitic posts were uploaded to social media over the course of 2016 – an average of 43.6 posts per hour, or one post every 83 seconds. Read more
Jewish teenager arrested following over 100 bomb threats against Jewish targets
March 24, 2017 by Agencies
A Jewish teenager with dual Israeli and American citizenship living in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon was arrested Thursday in connection to the wave of more than 100 bomb threats against JCCs and other Jewish institutions across North America since the beginning of 2017. Read more
UN head discusses Palestinian distortion of history
March 23, 2017 by Agencies
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has met with World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder and reiterated an earlier comment he made on Israeli radio that there is an absolute tie between the Jewish people and the land of Israel. Read more
Ancient coins discovered near Jerusalem
The Israel Antiquities Authority said the cache of nine bronze coins—discovered in a large complex that served Christian pilgrims en route to Jerusalem—serves as “evidence of the Persian invasion at the end of the Byzantine period.” Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping a t the official guest house in Beijing. Read more
Netanyahu meets Chinese business leaders
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning has met with the heads of China’s largest corporations, each of which has a turnover of tens of billions of dollars. Read more
MDA Mobile app to shorten stroke treatment time and minimise stroke damage
March 20, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Magen David Adom has unveiled a new lifesaving app to 25 neurologists and emergency medicine doctors from various hospitals in Israel. Read more
Peres as graffiti
March 20, 2017 by Agencies
International graffiti artist and actor, American Corin Nemec has showed his support for Israel by painting a giant graffiti wall for peace centred on a portrait of the late Ninth President of Israel, Shimon Peres, at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Read more
WJC CEO slams U.N. report branding Israel an apartheid state
The CEO of the World Jewish Congress has called the publication of a UN report which brands Israel a racist apartheid state “a sad attempt to reinstate the infamous 1975 UN resolution that considered Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Read more
Netanyahu China bound
March 17, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will leave on Sunday on an official visit to China. Read more
Trump invites Abbas to White House to discuss peace process
March 14, 2017 by Agencies
President Donald Trump invited Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to visit the White House following their first phone conversation since Trump took office in late January. Read more
Netanyahu meets Trump special representative Greenblatt
March 14, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held a five hours’ meeting in Jerusalem with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations. Read more
Switzerland outlaws BDS
PM Benjamin Netanyahu: his visit with Putin
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his meeting with Russian president Vladamir Putin in Moscow. Read more
Amazon removes Holocaust-denial books
World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer has thanked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for removing several Holocaust-denial books flagged by the WJC on multiple occasions since 2013 as being in violation of Amazon’s guidelines prohibiting the sale of material that “promote or glorify hatred.” Read more
2,000-year-old road found in Israel
A wide and impressive 2,000 year old road dating to the Roman period, in an extraordinary state of preservation has been revealed in archaeological excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority near Highway 375. Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu meets Boris Johnson
March 9, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing to fly overseas to meet world leaders and has met with the U.K.’s foreign secretary Boris Johnson in Jerusalem ahead of this week’s talks with Putin in Moscow. Read more
WJC and Israel’s Mission to UN to co-host annual ‘Ambassadors Against BDS’
March 8, 2017 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress and Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations will co-host a special conference on the delegitimisation of Israel, at the UN headquarters in New York on March 29. Read more
Magen David Adom launches electric bike squad
March 8, 2017 by Agencies
Magen David Adom is introducing electric bikes into its array of vehicles in Israel with each bike equipped with resuscitation equipment. Read more
Israel sets its sights on China and India
Israel is to set up two new divisions within its Foreign Ministry to expand its ties with China and India. Read more
WJC praises U.S. UNHRC envoy remarks on Israel
The World Jewish Congress has praised the United States’ envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council for her remarks rejecting the body’s one-sided discrimination against Israel. Read more
