French telecom company Orange confirms plans to pull out of Israel
June 5, 2015 by Agencies
The French telecommunications giant Orange on Thursday followed up on its CEO’s endorsement of ending the company’s dealings in Israel by confirming that Orange plans to cut ties with Partner Communications Ltd., its affiliate that provides cell phone service in the Jewish state. Read more
Opening banter
June 4, 2015 by Agencies
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully has met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Read more
President Rivlin meets U.N. Middle East special envoy
June 4, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has held his first working meeting with UN Middle East Special Envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, during which they spoke about the current security and political situation in the region. Read more
Maccabeats return to Melbourne
The popular Maccabeats, an a Capella group from Yeshivah University in New York, will return to Melbourne next month for their “return down under” concert. Read more
Frank Lowy OK
May 19, 2015 by Agencies
Frank Lowy appears to have survived his dramatic fall at Sunday’s A-League final. Read more
An award for Helen Mirren
May 14, 2015 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) and The Weinstein Company announced today that Academy Award winner Helen Mirren will receive the WJC Recognition Award for her role in the acclaimed film ‘Woman in Gold’ and for helping to educate the public about the issues of Nazi-looted art. Read more
Israel-German relationship “a miracle”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the relationship between Israel and Germany “a miracle”. Read more
Day One at the antisemitism global forum
May 13, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Naftali Bennett, were among the many officials who spoke at the opening session of the 5th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem yesterday. Read more
Rivlin, Berlin and the Holocaust
May 12, 2015 by Agencies
President Reuven Rivlin has spoken in Berlin of the Holocaust at at the infamous Platform 17 from which the city’s Jews were transported to Auschwitz. Read more
Rivlin in Germany
May 12, 2015 by Agencies
President of Israel Reuven Rivlin has joined the Mayor of Berlin, Michael Muller in a symbolic walk through the city’s Brandenburg Gate. Read more
The end of the war
May 8, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin and Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations have both delivered important speeches on the 70th anniversary marking the end of WWII. Read more
Danby supports arrest and extradition
May 8, 2015 by Agencies
Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has told Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper that an Israeli woman should face charges of child sex abuse whilst employed in Melbourne if allegations of her doing so were true. Read more
IsraeLife Delegation Lauded for Tremendous Rescue Efforts
May 5, 2015 by Agencies
The IsraeLife delegation to Nepal, with the participation of United Hatzalah, ZAKA and F.I.R.S.T volunteers, has completed its mission of recovering the body of missing Israeli trekker Or Asraf and transferring the body to his family for a proper burial in Israel. Read more
At work in Nepal
May 3, 2015 by Agencies
Nine senior medical personnel from Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital are playing a crucial role in the IDF’s rescue mission in Nepal. Read more
Nepal: IsraAID team finds woman still alive after five days
May 1, 2015 by Agencies
IsraAID’s Search and Rescue Team (SAR) in Kathmandu has rescued a young woman five days after a catastrophic hit Nepal. Read more
Chabad Nepal rabbi’s children evacuated to Israel
April 30, 2015 by Agencies
As he continues to follow closely the developments in Nepal and the progress of Israel’s aid mission there, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has hosted the children of the Lubavitch Chabad emissaries based in Nepal. Read more
At work in Nepal
April 30, 2015 by Agencies
The Joint Israelife Disaster Response team, comprising volunteers from ZAKA, United Hatzolah and F.I.R.S.T, attended to about thirty injured Nepalese yesterday in the small, far-flung villages east of Kathmandu. Read more
Yom Hazikaron: Melbourne
April 29, 2015 by Agencies
Over 1,000 Melbournians have commemorated the lives of Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror on Yon Hazikaron. Read more
The Holocaust: The Red Cross “lost its moral compass”
April 29, 2015 by Agencies
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the world’s foremost humanitarian organization, and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) have commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. Read more
ADC welcomes Pope’s comments
April 28, 2015 by Agencies
Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has welcome remarks by Pope Francis in which he decried the “troubling” antisemitic movements and violence in Europe and called on Christians to deplore all forms of antisemitism and to stand united with the Jewish people. Read more
Survivors to visit Bergen Belsen
April 24, 2015 by Agencies
More than 100 survivors of the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen, children born at the post-war displaced persons (DP) camp Bergen-Belsen, as well as British liberators will travel to Lower Saxony, Germany on 26 April to mark the anniversary of the camp’s liberation 70 years ago. Read more
Yom Hazikaron: Benjamin Netanyahu
April 23, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl on Yom Hazikaron. Read more
Independence Day – A message from Benjamin Netanyahu
April 23, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister sends a video message for Israel’s Independence Day. Read more
Yom Hazikaron: the President speaks
April 22, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has addressed the commemoration of Yom Hazikaron…Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars and Victims of Terrorism. Read more
Bibi meets children of fallen IDF members
April 21, 2015 by Agencies
Ahead of Yom Hazikaron, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with the children of members of the Israeli Defence Forces who lost their lives on active service. Read more
Holocaust survivors in Israel observe Yom Hashoah
April 17, 2015 by Agencies
Thousands of Holocaust survivors have observed Yom HaShoah—Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day—at ceremonies held today (Thursday, April 16) in the 57 residential facilities operated by The Jewish Agency for Israel’s sheltered housing subsidiary, Amigour. Read more
Netanyahu at Yad Vashem
April 17, 2015 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at Yad Vashem on Yom Hashoah. Read more
March of the Living 2015
April 17, 2015 by Agencies
70 years after the end of the Second World War 11,000 participants, both Jews and non-Jews, joined the 27th March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Read more
Nuclear threat from Iran concerns children of survivors
As Israel readies to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new Bar-Ilan University study reveals that the adult children of Holocaust survivors are more preoccupied with the threat of a nuclear Iran than their peers whose parents are not Holocaust survivors. Read more
March of the Living 2015
April 13, 2015 by Agencies
70 years after the end of the Second World War the March of the Living will once again take over 10,000 young people, Jews and non-Jews, from across the world on an emotional and inspiring educational journey. Read more
