Report: Israel Lobbying Congress to Pressure S. Africa to Drop Hague Complaint

Israel wants Congress to convince South Africa’s new rulers the Hague complaint would come at a high cost.

Oops: NBC Sportscaster Says Ex-Maccabi Tel Aviv Player Represented ‘Palestine’

“You saw with Lessort, one of the back centers, with the Palestine flag draped over his shoulders."

South African Jewish Student to American Jews: Join the Club

This young Jewish woman might as well have been channeling a Hasidic Rebbe.

S. Africa Demotes Jewish Captain of National Cricket Team

Teeger is an observant Jew who keeps Shabbat and kashrut.

Netanyahu Condemns South Africa’s ‘Mendacious Pontificating’ about Israel’s So-Called ‘Genocide’

Meanwhile, Article 2 of the Genocide Convention's definition of genocide fits Hamas’s crimes like a glove.

Report: Holocaust Education Expanding in Africa, Arab Countries, and Where It Really Counts –...

The Report includes an extensive discussion about Cyprus, presenting it as a model to be emulated.

South African Human Rights Activist Rhoda Kadalie, True Friend of Israel, Dead at 68

Rhoda Kadalie always spoke truth to power, which in South Africa included her being a staunch defender of Israel against the official antisemitic line.

Friday the NY Times Attacks ‘Pegasus,’ Monday Israel Tightens Spyware Export Rules

So Pegasus is equal-opportunity spyware and, needless to say, Israel's greatest friend in the world (America) was not amused.

Report: Algeria Enlisting African Union Members to Revoke Israel’s Observer’s Status

Israel was an observer in the Organization of African Unity, but in 2002, when it was replaced by the African Union, the Israeli membership was revoked.
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Scores of Jewish Tombstones Vandalized in South Africa

“The barbed wire we put up a few years ago has also been stolen.”

Netanyahu Mourns Brother Yoni, Hero of 1976 Entebbe Operation

The family believes that Yoni was killed by the German who commanded the Entebbe hijackers.

MDA Helps Set Up Coronavirus Drive-Thru Testing in the Congo

Congo's Minister of Health visited the "Drive and Test" facility that opened in their country in late May and expressed their gratitude to MDA.

Dozens of Nigeria’s Igbo Jews Join Shavei Israel’s Zoom Webinar

"They have been apart for a long time because of the Coronavirus so it was great for them to see each other and know they're all okay, to bring them together in this way.”

Netflix Showing New Film on Ethiopian Jews’ Rescue in SF Jewish Festival

From 1979 to 1983, Aliyah activists and Mossad agents operating in Sudan encouraged the Beta Israel communities in Ethiopia to come to the Sudan, and from the Sudan they would be taken to Israel via Europe.

Locust Plague of Biblical Proportion to Hit Egypt in Time for Passover

Control operations have treated nearly 85,000 hectare since December, of which 30,000 hectare were treated in the past three weeks in Egypt, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.

Israel Prepares for Visit by Prime Minister of Muslim-Majority Republic of Mali

Mali's Prime Minister Maiga met in 2018 with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Liberia.

Terror Strikes Luxury Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya

Al Shabab killed 67 people in Nairobi in 2013; the group slaughtered 150 in 2015.
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Nigerian Police Arrest 51 Biafran Demonstrators Claiming to Be Jewish

The protesters were intercepted by riot police, who shot several teargas canisters at the procession, a move that caused a stampede at the local Isi Gate Market.

Idriss, Netanyahu Announce Chad to Renew Diplomatic Ties with Israel

"The world is changing before our eyes. Crises and wars we knew are changing as well....There's a time for war and a time for peace."

MK Smotrich: Keep the Falash Mura in Africa

The Falash Mura are members of the Beta Israel community in Ethiopia and Eritrea who converted to Christianity over the past two centuries.

Likud Chairman in South Africa Murdered

Yaakov Hagoel, chairman of the World Likud, said the murder was apparently carried out following Kovansky's decision to fire many of his employees because of his financial trouble.

Knesset Holocaust Remembrance Session Morphs into Debate of Israel’s African Illegals

"Islamophobia is also a kind of anti-Semitism," MK Tibi noted, "so we must all be united in the fight against racism, the rejection of the other and the creation of stereotypes."

Yam Pro Signs $180 Million Deal to build Wave Energy Power Station in Ghana

According to the US Energy Information Administration, if we could capture 1% of the ocean's energy, we could produce enough power to meet the global energy demand 5 times over.

Jewish Groups Condemn African National Congress’ Downgrading Ties with Israel

“South African Jewry feel betrayed by the liberation movement of the ANC structures and are deeply disappointed that they were persuaded by those with (an) obsession to vilify the Jewish state.”

A Planet Enraged: Nigerian Avenges US Jerusalem Call by Stabbing Danish Journalists in Gabon

The attack was not classified as an act of terror, but Gabon police arrested dozens of people who had been at the market place where the attack had taken place.

Israeli Government Joins ‘Power Africa’ Initiative, Good News for Energy Sector

Power Africa uses collective problem solving to enable African leaders to pave their own future.

High Court Rejects NGOs Suit to Ban Deportation of Illegals

The ruling stated that "the consent of the foreigners to their removal is not required for the deportation to be lawful, and it is also possible to deport them against their will.

Israel Cancels Contract with Rightwing Think Tank on Illegal Migration over Technicality

Although the lawsuit focused on irregularities in contracting with an independent agency, its purpose was to prevent a study showing an improvement in the human rights situation in Eritrea, in preparation for the deportation of illegal migrants.

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