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By Canaan Lidor
Max Veifer, a vlogger from Israel, connected with the pair on an app, which links users at random.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Police have received 166 reports in recent weeks about antisemitism, with 15 under investigation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
This time, the Newtown Synagogue in the Inner West area was the target.
By Israel Hayom
Omar and Ella had to complete extensive 13-page declarations typically reserved for foreign fighters and government officials.
The terrorist operatives were honored for their "extraordinary resilience, bravery and courage."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“These are dark days for Australian democracy,” said former Israeli politician Ayelet Shaked, who claimed the decision was due to the "radically pro-Palestinian policies" of the Australian government.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies condemned the "despicable act," calling it "pure, unadulterated antisemitism."
The investigative unit of the United Nations opened a case probing whether pro-Hamas lobbying groups funded Francesca Albanese’s trips in 2023 to Australia and New Zealand.
The birthday boy dressed up as a Hamas terrorist.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Australian Jewish Association has called on authorities to not issue a visa on the grounds that his planned visit constitutes a threat to the local Jewish community.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Anti-Semitism has no place in Australia. It has no place anywhere in the world,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Marcus Solomon, an experienced commercial litigator and arbitrator, on Wednesday was sworn in to the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He chose to conclude the ceremony “with an old Jewish custom” — saying the Shehechyanu Jewish prayer, which is typically recited to celebrate new experiences.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Data gathered by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry showed that the number of anti-Semitic abuses reported this year has already matched the total number of incidents from 2020.
Ben & Jerry's was already being removed from Australian kosher supermarkets.
The extradition request can now be signed off by Israel’s Justice Minister, Avi Nissenkorn, who has already indicated his intention to do so without delay.
In the coming days, the Jerusalem District Court will determine whether to extradite her back to her country, where she is wanted for sex offenses.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Critical donations are being sent in the wake of the massive brush fires that have resulted in the death of millions of species since September.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Germany’s statement is the latest voice of dissent against the ICC’s announcement.
The leaders emphasized the excellent ties and close friendship between the two governments and their peoples.
The PA has made it clear they will not stop payments to the jailed terrorists.
Leifer is wanted in Australia on 74 counts of sexual abuse dating to her time as headmistress of the ultra-Orthodox Adass Israel school from 2001-2008.
By JNi.Media
Bishop said has been in communication with the PA Foreign Minister to make sure the money her country sends Ramallah—an estimated $43 million—will only be spent on good things.
Covering the latest news stories that matter for Israel.
On the path to statehood, with a little help from our friends.
By JNi.Media
“The most striking finding of the report is the remarkable consistency between the happiness of immigrants and the locally born.”
The UN's vote against recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capitol.
A lot of news is simmering hot down there that the rest of the world may not know. Listen in and get the low-down!
Jerusalem recalled its ambassador to Wellington after New Zealand sponsored Security Resolution 2334; full ties were resumed in June.
By JNi.Media
Israel's Supreme Court rejected an appeal from local Arab residents who had claimed some of the land belonged to them. Upon completion, the neighborhood will boast 480 apartments.
By JNi.Media
On Sunday, instead of issuing an apology for what had been, at best, a blunder, and at worst a call to annihilate a country friendly to Australia, ABC actually hit back, saying Facebook user's accusations were incorrect and offensive.
Public outcry has reversed a decision!
By JNi.Media
"They wanted to sensationalize and exaggerate to the point of lying – borderline lying," Feldman stressed.
“Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Saudi Arabia must create a joint protection program to remove all anthropogenic stressful conditions."
By JNi.Media
The discussion, then as now, revolved around annexation versus a two-state solution, although at the time the most these Israeli ministers could imagine was a Palestinian autonomy under Israeli rule (a solution that's to the right of today's Likud).
The political and military intrigues going on in Syria.
Why we do, what we do, the way we do it!
By JNi.Media
Another way for Australia to demonstrate its unswerving support for Israel, as the Middle East’s only liberal, pluralist democracy, might be to ... move its embassy to Jerusalem.
I was recently approached by someone who asked me why childhood sexual abuse in our communities is such a hot topic right now. My response was that it’s about time.
By JNi.Media
"In a busy school, this student did go to a respected staff member said 'is this OK?' and the staff member said 'yes,'" the principal explained.
Foreign Minister Bishop publicly stated two years ago that the international community has no place to decide which Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are legal and which ones are not.
By JNi.Media
Back on February 11, 2015, the Australian ABC network reported on Nechama Bendet's testimony to the Royal Commission that day, admitting it was a mistake that Yeshivah College had never apologized directly to Manny Waks, a student who had been sexually abused by a guard.
By JNi.Media
World Vision Australia chief, Rev. Tim Costello told AAP, "We have absolutely nothing to do with terror. We audit every cent that goes through."
By JNi.Media
Hamas warehouses were disguised as World Vision warehouses, and trucks bringing supplies from Israel into Gaza unload their goods at those Hamas warehouses instead of legitimate World Vision warehouses.
Joshua Ryne Goldberg is 20 years old, Jewish, an Internet troll, poses as an ISIS supporter, and now faces up to s 20 years in jail.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The café opened in 1939 and was closed n 1949.
Akiva Eldar, an editor of Haaretz, was hit while visiting his mother-in-law.
They disrupted a lecture by retired British Col. Richard Kemp, who says Israel tried to prevent civilian deaths in Gaza.
The ICC is a political organization dependent on donor countries.
The decision to not publicly light the Menorah in Sydney, epitomizes the eternal dilemma of Judaism and Jews in the Diaspora.
The gunman, besides being a Muslim cleric, has a violent record.
By JTA
Jewish communities in Australia remained under lockdown as a hostage crisis continued at a café in Sydney. The Community Security Group, which handles security for the Jewish communities of Australia, raised the threat level to severe on Monday after an apparent Islamist gunman entered a café in downtown Sydney and took dozens of hostages, the […]
Gad Elbaz wrote on Facebook, “A Miracle, a miracle a miracle of Hanukkah.”
By Rachel Levy
A massive sting operation hauled in 15 suspects and foiled a plot by ISIS to hold a public beheading in Australia.
Is Woodstock still leading the world to destruction?
A suspected car bomb caused police to evacuate the campus.
By JTA
Police in Melbourne arrested seven pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed the roof of an Israel-based company.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
It is critical to note the solid legal basis for the position that no part of Jerusalem is actually "occupied."
Jordan summons Australian official over Canberra's decision to stop referring to east Jerusalem as 'occupied' territory.
The Palestinian Authority has summoned Thomas Wilson, Australia’s ambassador to the P.A., for a dressing down over Canberra’s decision to remove the word “occupied” from eastern Jerusalem. According to Rotter, the Palestinian “foreign ministry” told the ambassador that the international community recognises the “fact” that the Palestinian capital is occupied.
The Prime Minister didn't mince words at Sunday's cabinet meeting, slamming the int'l community for embracing the Hamas government, while praising Australia for its moral clarity.
Hypocritical statements emanate from Jordan.
PUG Calls for Reevaluation of the Arab Relationship with Australia
Australia joins Canada in extending real hands of friendship to Israel.
Shurat Hadin: Boycott of Israeli professor violated anti-racism law. Aussie prof: I'll work with whomever I choose.
A leading Australian rabbi has set family violence and sexual abuse as top priorities for the country’s top rabbinic organization. “There’s nothing we shouldn’t be speaking about. Let’s talk about organ donation, let’s talk about child protection, let’s talk about reporting to the police, abortion, end-of-life issues,” Kluwgant told Melbourne’s The Age. Kluwgant assumes the […]
Australia has always had a vocal far-left constituency, but they are a minority that have had little voice in mainstream politics. Is that changing?
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has ramped up its campaign against the boycott, divestment, sanction movement (BDS) in Australia with an information booklet outlining the history and aims of the BDS movement. The booklet, which has been distributed to politicians, journalists and public officials lays bare the hypocrisy of the BDS brigades Down Under […]
Despite mini-crises over fake passports and Prisoner X, Australia has been one of Israel’s most reliable allies.
By JTA
Yom Kippur prayers may be on the minds of Jews in Australia, ravaged by roaring fires. “Who will perish by water and who by fire,” says the prayer. One Jew lost his home – but saved a mezuzah.
Violence in the Syrian Civil War knows no borders and has spillover as far as away as Australia, where shooting and arson attacks have taken place. A Melbourne-based nurse visited Syria twice to help with humanitarian efforts on behalf of rebels and said her husband’s car had been firebombed and their hem shot at, the […]
The White House announced Monday that more than dozen more countries have formally backed a “strong international response" to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The United States now has the support of 24 countries, not including Israel which has tried to lay low. The list includes an interesting collection of allies, such as […]
Add Poland to Hezbollah’s terrorist network, which smuggled from Poland parts of the bomb that killed five Israelis last summer, a Polish daily reported. Hezbollah paid $100,000 for the attack.
By Batya Medad
It takes a strong military dictator to control the volatile Egyptian population.
The news media are focused on other things, and the victims are remembered mainly by those who knew and loved them.
By JTA
Australia, one of Israel’s staunchest supporters, now has a deputy prime minister who is a founding member of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine group, a sign of shifting political sands that may change the country’s attitudes towards the Jewish state. Anthony Albanese, a longstanding member of the left faction of the Labor Party, was sworn […]
By JTA
A Vilna Ghetto survivor and partisan fighter whose restaurant in Melbourne became a meeting place for the postwar survivor community died on Saturday at the age of 89. Avram Zeleznikow was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust and waded through more than 30 miles of sewers to escape the ghetto in […]
The South African doctor arrested and detained in Dubai was acquitted but may nevertheless be forced to remain there as the prosecution appeals.
Australia has confirmed that “Prisoner X,” since identified as Ben Zygier, worked for the Israeli government, and it warned Israel it faces a strong protest if it is proven his home country passport was misused. Zygier, alias Ben Alon and Ben Allen, hanged himself in an Israeli jail two years ago after having been arrested […]
More details are slowly coming to light in the case of Ben Zygier, also known as Prisoner X. A day before he committed suicide, Zygier met with outside defense attorney Avigdor Feldman, besides his meetings with his regular attorneys Roi Belcher, Moshe Mazor and Boaz Ben-Tzur. Zygier had been considering his legal options, including the […]
By JoeSettler
As you must have heard, Prisoner X, was kept in a secret Israeli government jail, the one previously used to hold Yigal Amir, and it's forbidden by the censor to talk about him or his incarceration. Here at the Muqata, we've uncovered the real reasons why Prisoner X was arrested. Here they are (a joint Joe-Jameel effort): […]
The Case of Prisoner X: He hanged himself in Israeli jail cell in 2010. A gag order was clamped on the story. An Australian media outlet now says he was a Mossad agent who committed a terrible crime.
The operator of Australia’s Pluto liquefied natural gas project, Woodside Petroleum, will buy a 30 percent share in Israel’s Leviathan natural gas field for $2.5 billion, becoming a strategic partner in the drilling.
Photos are coming in from Australia and around the world, including the US, Canada and Israel.
Sometimes the global efforts of the Islamists pay dividends for them. Sometimes they are frustrated by the authorities. Nothing happens very quickly in the battle against them. And no one can seriously claim they are being defeated; on the contrary. Some snapshots from the last 24 hours.
By JTA
An Australian man who allegedly raped a Holocaust survivor two decades ago will face trial.
The mainstream Australian media are reporting with astonishment on the sight of elementary school children being pushed front and center by radical adults to embody the lust for Islamist jihad and to advocate the killing of unbelievers.
By JTA
Lily Hyde will leave the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home in Sydney on Wednesday morning for Tel Aviv, where she will be reunited with her family. She is believed to be the oldest Australian ever to immigrate to Israel.
Australia’s 2011 census shows that Australia’s official Jewish population has risen to almost 100,000, a rise of 10 percent in five years.
September 4, 2026 
