JNF Australia
JNF Australia's new president Marcus Rose. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
May 12, 2019, 12:00 am
New JNF president inspired by nature
NEW JNF Australia president Marcus Rose has revealed his deep passion for nature conservation will shape his leadership, and take JNF's comprehensive breadth of environmental protection projects in Israel "to the next level".
By Shane Desiatnik
Alon Ben-Gurion at the JNF NSW annual general meeting. Photo: Nadine Saacks
April 7, 2019, 12:00 am
Sharing memories of Ben-Gurion
Alon Ben-Gurion, grandson of Israel's founding prime minister, was the keynote speaker at the Jewish National Fund (JNF) NSW AGM in Sydney late last month.
By Gareth Narunsky
The house in Mishmeret destroyed by a Hamas rocket. Photo: Israel Police
April 1, 2019, 10:42 am
What lies behind the latest Hamas attacks?
It would appear that Israel is on the brink of full-scale war against Hamas again, but why now?
By Rebecca Davis
The Sydney Jewish Museum will receive $10,000, via the JCA, as part of the ORAH Project's latest round of donations. Photo: SJM
March 22, 2019, 12:00 am
ORAH Project giving charities a boost
JEWISH charities are the big winners in the latest round of donations provided by the ORAH Project, an innovative investment fund established by Sydney's Carole and Russel Pillemer.
By Shane Desiatnik
Professor Noam Weisbrod.
January 13, 2019, 12:01 am
Israeli water experts visit
THREE of Israel's leading water experts will visit New South Wales and Queensland this month to tour drought-affected country areas.
By Gareth Narunsky
Heading to Israel (from left) JNF NSW education shaliach Yigal Nisell, Bellevue Hill Public School senior administrative officer Rachelle Wygoda, Vaucluse Public School principal Maureen Hallahan, Rose Bay Public School deputy principal Lynn Young and JNF NSW executive director Gabbie Budai.
December 3, 2018, 12:00 am
JNF to send 68 teachers to Israel
An expanded JNF Australia Educators' Study Tour of Israel of 68 teaching professionals from 20 schools across the nation – including two principals, three deputy principals and a large non-Jewish contingent – will see iconic Israeli sights and visit innovative and diverse schools from January 1-10.
By Shane Desiatnik
Professor Michael Berenbaum.
November 9, 2018, 12:01 am
Orator to look back 80 years
VISITING US scholar Professor Michael Berenbaum will discuss how the Holocaust is viewed in today's world when he delivers this year's Betty and Shmuel Rosenkranz Oration to commemorate Kristallnacht. Marking the 80th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom that shook German and Austrian Jewry to its foundations, Berenbaum will speak from his perspective as a Holocaust scholar, rabbi, writer and filmmaker.
By Peter Kohn
Ehud Barak, (right) with, Greg Sheridan. Photo: Giselle Haber
September 7, 2018, 12:01 am
Israel stands stronger than ever at seventy
A CAPACITY audience packed The Venue in Alexandria to hear Ehud Barak, a former Israeli Labour prime minister, who had become the country's most decorated soldier, proclaim that "Israel is stronger now than in other point in our history", in conversation with foreign editor of The Australian, Greg Sheridan.
By Peter Kohn
Ehud Barak.
September 3, 2018, 5:24 pm
Ehud Barak on…
’VISITING Australia for the JNF 2018 annual campaign, Ehud Barak, Israeli statesman and soldier, sat down with The AJN for a wide-ranging interview, during which the former PM declined to categorically rule out another tilt at Israel’s prime ministership.
By Peter Kohn
Ehud Barak for JNF.
July 13, 2018, 12:01 am
Ehud Barak for JNF
FORMER Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak will be the keynote speaker at JNF Australia's annual dinner events in August and September.
Rabbi Yehuda Niasoff singing memorial prayers at the Yom Hazikaron service in 2016. Photo: Giselle Haber.
April 24, 2018, 3:12 pm
‘We will never forget’
MORE than 600 members of the community turned out to pay their respects to Israel’s fallen soldiers and terror victims at a moving ceremony on Tuesday evening.
By Gareth Narunsky
Year 2 Moriah College students with (back from left) Rabbi Benji Levy, teacher Michal Levy-Hardy, KKL-JNF head of education Shlomo Deri, KKL-JNF world chairperson Danny Atar and JNF Australia education shaliah Yigal Nisell. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
February 18, 2018, 12:01 am
World chair drops in for Green Week
JNF Australia's biggest annual fundraising campaign – Green Week – was boosted in Sydney last week by the presence of four members of KKL-JNF's executive leadership team, including world chairperson Danny Atar.
Mayor of Ramat Hanegev and JNF Australia Green Week headline speaker, Eran Doron.
February 7, 2018, 12:01 am
Israeli Mayor to visit
JEWISH National Fund (JNF) Australia has a proud record of contributing to the development of communities in Israel's desert-dominated Ramat Hanegev.
By Shane Desiatnik
JNF Australia Educators Study Tour of Israel participants in Jerusalem last week.
January 23, 2018, 12:01 am
Trip inspires Aussie teachers
"MORE inspired, motivated and connected" are how 61 teachers from Jewish schools in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth are feeling after attending the inaugural JNF Australia Educators Study Tour of Israel from January 2-10.
By Shane Desiatnik
Dan Springer addressing JNF mission participants in Independence Hall.
November 10, 2017, 12:00 am
JNF group recalls Balfour
A GROUP of more than 50 Australians sat in Independence Hall in Tel Aviv last Thursday – in the same room where David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel – exactly 100 years after the Balfour Declaration was signed.
By Joshua Levi
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