Isaac Herzog
A group of Falash Mura arrive in Israel in August 2013. Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90.
September 27, 2018, 12:01 am
Falash Mura immigrants bound for Israel
Around 1000 Ethiopians whose ancestors converted to Christianity are to move to Israel and convert to Judaism. An Israeli government committee has just taken the decision to bring them to Israel and fund their absorption, and Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog is calling for thousands more people to be brought.
By Nathan Jeffay
June 29, 2018, 12:01 am
‘Appalling’ speaker
THE appearance of a prominent Israel boycott activist at the NSW Labor conference this weekend has been labelled "appalling".
By Gareth Narunsky
Isaac Herzog.
June 28, 2018, 12:00 am
Herzog takes helm of Jewish Agency
The Jewish Agency has selected Isaac Herzog, leader of Israel’s opposition, to take over as chairman from Natan Sharansky - a move Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was trying to block.
By Nathan Jeffay
Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu at the opening ceremony of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem. Photo: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner
May 17, 2018, 12:00 am
US Embassy move: ‘A great day for Israel’
After years of Israeli campaigning and complaining, the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem on Monday, in what Israel's President lauded as a "brave step".
By Nathan Jeffay
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference last year. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
February 15, 2018, 12:00 am
Police: Enough evidence to charge Bibi
After months of rumours and leaks, investigations against Benjamin Netanyahu have reached a crescendo, and police have concluded there is enough evidence to indict him.
By Nathan Jeffay
The entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.
February 1, 2018, 5:18 pm
New Polish Shoah legislation slammed
Israelis say that the parliament in Warsaw has no right to prescribe prison sentences for people who suggest that Poland bore responsibility for the Holocaust – and top scholars share their dismay.
By Nathan Jeffay
Mike Pence with Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Reuters/Ariel Schalit/JPost
January 25, 2018, 12:00 am
Protests, praise for Pence’s Israel visit
America's Vice-President left Israelis overwhelmed and Palestinians seething, as he wrapped up a 48-hour visit to Israel this week.
By Nathan Jeffay
Israel's Minister of Culture, Likud politician Miri Regev, was strongly in favour of the resolution. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL
January 5, 2018, 2:00 pm
Likud tightens grip on West Bank
The ruling party in Jerusalem has voted in favour of extending Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements. The Israeli left is livid about the resolution, which was passed by the central committee of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud.
By Nathan Jeffay
Tony Blair spoke at the conference.
June 29, 2017, 9:30 am
Optimism over ties with Arabs
THERE was something unusual in the air at Israel’s top global policy conference, which has just finished – a hint of optimism.
By Nathan Jeffay
The USS Porter firing a Tomahawk missile at a Syrian military airfield last Friday. Photo: Ford Williams/US. Navy via Getty Images/JTA
April 13, 2017, 12:00 am
Israeli leaders welcome US Syria strike
Israeli leaders across the political spectrum have welcomed the airstrikes on a Syrian base, applauding Donald Trump’s decision to retaliate after the Syrian regime attacked its own people with chemical weapons.
The IDF uncovering a Hamas terror tunnel. Photo: IDF
March 2, 2017, 12:00 am
Report: Israel bungled Gaza war
The gruelling seven-week Gaza War of 2014 was mismanaged by a bumbling security establishment in Israel, the country’s State Comptroller concluded on Tuesday.
By Nathan Jeffay
An Israeli border policeman walks near workers lifting a housing unit with a crane during the demolition of Amona on Tuesday. Photo: EPA/Abir Sultan
February 8, 2017, 2:07 pm
New settlement law slammed as ‘theft’
Politicians have passed one of the most controversial laws ever brought before the Knesset, leaving some Israelis celebrating a victory for the settlement movement and others decrying the legalisation of “land grabs”.
Israeli settlers scuffling with security forces during the evacuation of Amona. Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90/JTA
February 8, 2017, 2:05 pm
Deep divisions over Amona evacuation
Some 60 Israeli police officers were recovering from injuries this week, after being attacked by pro-settler activists who turned violent to oppose an outpost evacuation.
December 22, 2016, 12:02 am
World has failed Syria
As the news from Aleppo sinks in, Israeli politicians are responding angrily, members of the public are demonstrating, and a furious monologue by a Tel Aviv-based Arab journalist is going viral.
By Nathan Jeffay
Bill Shorten meeting Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem this week.
December 22, 2016, 12:00 am
Shorten: ‘Awe’ of Israel unites us
Sparring Australian politicians say they were so captivated by a visit to Israel this week, that they put their differences aside.
By Nathan Jeffay
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