Remembering Rabin
October 26, 2015 by Agencies
Jewish leaders from around the world participating in The Jewish Agency for Israel Board of Governors’ autumn meetings have observed a moment of silence in memory of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during the opening session of the Board meetings in Jerusalem’s Old City. Read more
On ABC Radio National
October 24, 2015 by Agencies
Coptic Christian Samuel Tadros and The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council’s Jeremy Jones talk to ABC’s Rachael Kohn on this weeks “The Spirit of Things”. Read more
Lowy retires from Scentre
October 23, 2015 by Agencies
Frank Lowy will retire as Chairman of Scentre Group ) at the company’s Annual General Meeting in May next year. Read more
Netanyahu: what he said
October 22, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister has been slammed for stating that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem played a vital part in the extermination of the Jews during WWII – Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel states her country must take responsibility for the Holocaust. Read more
Israel rejects UNESCO resolution
October 22, 2015 by Agencies
Turnbull says no change to 18C planned
October 21, 2015 by Agencies
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said that his government has no plans to reopen the call for reform to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more
Sydney hosts Maccabi Australia’s 90th anniversary
October 21, 2015 by Agencies
Rabbi Yehudah Glick: we will continue to call on Jews to visit the Temple Mount
October 20, 2015 by Agencies
Rabbi Yehudah Glick, an Israeli activist seeking to increase Jewish access to the Temple Mount, offers the following commentary on the security situation in Israel. Read more
Israeli yacht rescues refugees
October 20, 2015 by Agencies
A yacht from an Israeli civilian navigation school conducting training near the Turkish coast has encountered and rescued 11 Syrian and Iraqi migrants whose boat had capsized, in addition to a 6-month-old baby who did not survive. Read more
Kotel an Islamic site?…the MFA responds
October 20, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to a Palestinian proposed USESCO resolution to register the Wailing Wall as a Muslim site. Read more
UNESCO resolution to declare the Western Wall a Muslim site
October 19, 2015 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder today warned UNESCO against exacerbating tensions in Israel by adopting a Palestinian-sponsored resolution that declares the Western Wall in Jerusalem a part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Read more
Netanyahu’s media briefing
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a media conference that a Palestinian boy Israel is accused of executing is being treated in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Read more
Temple Mount out of bounds to politicians
October 9, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered both Jewish and Arab politicians not to go up to the Temple Mount. Read more
Fly me to the moon
October 8, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, has hosted members of the SpaceIL venture at his residence in Jerusalem. Read more
Two die in Jerusalem terrorist attack
At around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday evening (October 3, 2015), a knife-wielding Arab attacked Aharon Bennett, his wife, their 2-year-old son and infant who were on their way to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. Read more
They seek them here…they seek them everywhere
October 4, 2015 by Agencies
Traveling in a motor home armed with Jewish gear, Rabbi Yossi and Malki Rodal make their way around the Australian outback in search of Jews. Read more
WJC praises Netanyahu’s call for resumption of peace negotiations
October 2, 2015 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) today hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu’s call at the United Nations for the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table and lauded Netanyahu’s remarks that Israel and Arab states are cooperating against radical Islam. Read more
Iran: The best intentions don’t prevent the worst outcomes.
October 2, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken at the United Nations General Assembly. His address in full… Read more
A map for Julie
October 1, 2015 by Agencies
Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has prepared a special map for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to explain where Daesh and Assad are, and the difference between Daesh and the real opponents of Syria and Iran on the battlefield in the northern and southern parts of western Syria. Read more
Palestinian flag flies at United Nations for the first time
October 1, 2015 by Agencies
The Palestinian flag was raised at United Nations headquarters for the first time on Wednesday afternoon in New York City, accompanying Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the world body on the same day. Read more
Israel marks China National Day
September 25, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has addressed the China National Day Reception hosted by the Chinese Ambassador to Israel Zhan Yongxin, in Tel Aviv, marking 66 years since the independence of the People’s Republic of China. Read more
Education without borders
September 22, 2015 by Agencies
‘Education Without Borders,’ a special exhibition has opened at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, shows how Israel is alone among Mideast nations in providing continuing education for all hospitalised Israeli children, including Arabs and minorities, and Syrian refugees. Read more
Anti-Israel MP elected new leader of U.K.’s Labour Party
September 17, 2015 by Agencies
Far-left U.K. parliament member Jeremy Corbyn, who has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric and a controversial association with a group run by a Holocaust denier, has been elected overwhelmingly as the new leader of his country’s opposition Labour Party. Read more
Lithuania’s Jewish cemetery project
September 10, 2015 by Agencies
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has promised that a government project to mark, memorialise and maintain Jewish burial grounds in his country would be completed by 2017. Read more
French drop investigation into Arafat’s death
French prosecutors have announced that they have decided to drop the investigation into the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Read more
US$230 million for Israel’s Arabs
September 2, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Arab municipal councils will receive a one-time budgetary supplement of $230 million from the Israeli government before the end of the year. Read more
Israeli universities rank highly
August 20, 2015 by Agencies
Maintaining its #1 position in Israel and #3 position in Asia, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rose three positions to #67 among the 500 top universities in the world, in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities…and The Technion in Haifa is in the 77th spot but is ranked 18th in the world in computer science. Read more
Beyond Hamas: planned Abbas visit elucidates Iran’s lesser-known ties to PA
August 19, 2015 by Agencies
While Iran’s funding of the Palestinian terror group Hamas is well-documented, the Islamic Republic’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority (PA) is less frequently discussed. Read more
A letter to Ban Ki-Moon
Following increasing attacks on Israelis, Ambassador Ron Prosor has sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Read more
A new look at the Australia-Israel relationship
August 18, 2015 by Agencies
Australia and Israel’s complex relationship has received a fresh public examination with the release of the new academic collection, Australia and Israel: A Diasporic, Political and Relationship. Read more
