Hebrew Uni archaeologists find prehistoric village

Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have revealed in Israel a prehistoric village, dated around 12,000 years ago, in excavations in the fertile Jordan Valley.  Read more

France proposes renewed Israeli-Palestinian conflict talks

France has proposed an international peace conference to restart negotiations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that if the effort fails the country could unilaterally recognise a Palestinian State. Read more

How March of the Living Impacts on Participants

With more than 220,000 participants having experienced March of the Living International (MOLI) trips to Eastern Europe and Israel, MOLI has published a study examining the effects that the program has had on its participants. Read more

American award for New Zealand scientist

Sir Peter Gluckman, Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of NewZealand,  is the recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Award for Science Diplomacy (2015). Read more

New resource for Holocaust survivors and their families

The World Jewish Restitution Organisation has launched a new website that will serve as a resource for Holocaust survivors and their families as well as for the growing movement of advocates seeking to resolve Holocaust-era property restitution issues in Eastern and Central Europe. Read more

Hamas operative killed in another tunnel collapse

A Hamas operative was reportedly killed in Gaza on Monday in the third deadly tunnel collapse to occur in the coastal enclave in less than two weeks. Read more

Parents travel to Jerusalem to see paratrooper son graduate

Ari Tuch got the surprise of his life when he graduated from the IDF’s Paratroopers Brigade’s arduous training course, and pledged allegiance to the State of Israel and the IDF…his parents had made an unannounced trip from Sydney to witness the ceremony at the Kotel, Read more

WJC leader shocked at reports Abbas hosted terrorists’ families

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met Wednesday in his office with the relatives of 11 terrorists killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis in recent weeks…three hours after a 19-yr-old Border Policewoman Hadar Cohen was killed in an attack at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate.
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Online hate analysed

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day  Australia’s Online Hate Prevention Institute released a groundbreaking report “Measuring the Hate: The State of Antisemitism on Social Media”. Read more

Rescue Remedy

ABC’s Rachael Kohn interviews the ‘Canadian Schindler,’ Judy Feld Carr who was a regular housewife with six kids with a big secret. Read more

Eichmann’s clemency petition revealed

“I was not one of the [Nazi] leaders responsible, and as such do not see myself guilty,” Eichmann wrote in a petition to then-President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi • Document to be made public in a Jerusalem ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Ambassador lends a hand

Australia’s ambassador to Israel has left his signature on the virtual wall of hands that was launched by the “Aviv for Holocaust Survivors”, a non-profit organisation, which helps survivors utilise their rights – free of cost. Read more

WJC praises UNESCO head for condemning Holocaust cartoon contest

World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer has praised UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova for issuing a clear condemnation the third edition of a Holocaust cartoon contest held in Iran which features many entries that openly deny the Shoah. Read more

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: a message from Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu send a message on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more

ADC remembers January 27

Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed annually on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps.  Read more

Leibler bequeaths 40,000 book collection to Bar-Ilan University

He may not have read all the titles in his book collection of 40,000 volumes, but Isi Leibler knows exactly where each and every one of them is shelved in his Jerusalem home.  Read more

Leifer: an alleged victim speaks

Australian authorities are currently seeking the extradition from Israel of Malka Leifer wanted in connection with 74 cases of child sexual abuse…one of the alleged victims tells her story. Read more

Israeli mother of six killed in Palestinian stabbing attack in Otniel

A 38-year-old Israeli mother of six was murdered in a terrorist stabbing attack at her home in the community of Otniel in the southern Hebron Hills on Sunday. Read more

A slap in the face for claimants

Following Thursday’s presentation of the interim report of the German task force set up in 2013 to check if art works found at the home of the late Cornelius Gurlitt were looted by the Nazis, World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder said the results of the investigation were “meager and not satisfactory.” Read more

New IDF submarine inaugurated

President Reuven Rivlin has attended the inauguration of the new IDF Dolphin-class submarine, the INS Rahav docked at the naval base in Haifa. Read more

Tel Aviv killer found

Israel’s Shin Bet security agency and police counter-terrorism forces on Friday found and shot dead Nashat Milhem, the Arab terrorist who fatally shot two Jews at a Tel Aviv pub on Jan. 1 and was also suspected to have murdered an Arab cab driver during his escape. Read more

WJC questions new publication of Mein Kampf

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said an annotated edition of Hitler’s book ‘Mein Kampf’, due to hit German bookstores this week, was unnecessary. Read more

Prime Minister’s Office: Martin Indyk fabricated conversation with Netanyahu

Former U.S. Middle East envoy Martin Indyk lied twice about a supposed conversation he had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the funeral of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, a Prime Minister’s Office official said this week. Read more

BDS win for Israeli university

Spain’s National Court has awarded compensation to Israel’s Ariel University declaring its exclusion from an inter-university competition was “illegal- null and void” following an unprecedented government decision.

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U.N. envoy to disputed Palestinian territories resigns

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) special investigator for the disputed Palestinian territories, Makarim Wibisono, announced his resignation on Monday, citing Israel’s refusal to grant him access to the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a factor in his decision. Read more

Hebrew University rated 47th worldwide

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been placed first in Israel and 47th in the world in the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities. Read more

Israeli therapy for prostate cancer approved by Mexico

A therapy invented at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and clinically developed in collaboration with Steba Biotech (Luxembourg) has been approved by Cofepris, Mexico’s health authority, for the focal treatment of early-stage prostate cancer. Read more

Members of Bnei Menashe survive Indian earthquake

The Bnei Menashe, descendants of one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, have reported extensive damage to their community in the Indian state of Manipur following a 6.7 magnitude earthquake which struck northeastern India early Monday morning killing at least nine people and injuring more than 90. Read more

Terror in Tel Aviv: Israeli families mourn victims

Two days after Friday’s deadly terrorist attack on Tel Aviv’s bustling Dizengoff Street, the father of 26-year-old Israeli Jewish victim Alon Bakal wants the world to know about his late son. Read more

Hamas releases footage of captive Gilad Shalit ‘having fun’

Hamas has released a video showing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit “having fun” while being held captive by the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group. Read more

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