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Rafi Eitan speaks in the Knesset plenum in 2008. (Michal Fattal/Flash90)
March 25, 2019, 9:23 am
Legendary Mossad agent Rafi Eitan dead at 92
Rafi Eitan, the Israeli spy who led the team that captured Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and later was the handler of American spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard, has died.
Malki Roth was killed in the attack on the Sbarro restaurant in 2000. Her killers receive stipends from the PA.
July 5, 2018, 12:00 am
Israel, Australia tackle terror funding
Israel has passed a new law to hit the Palestinian Authority in the pocket as long as it insists on paying terrorists.
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
Mike Pence addressing the Knesset on Monday. Photo: Ariel Schalit/AFP/Getty Images
January 25, 2018, 12:00 am
Pence: Trump has chosen ‘fact over fiction’
US Vice-President Mike Pence told the Knesset this week "In the weeks ahead, our administration will advance its plan to open the US Embassy in Jerusalem, and the United States Embassy will open before the end of next year."
By Nathan Jeffay
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat addressing the Knesset in 1977.
November 23, 2017, 12:00 am
Sadat’s visit that changed history
There was a mixture of optimism and pessimism on Tuesday, as the Knesset marked the 40th anniversary of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s historic visit to Jerusalem.
David Southwick with Sharren Haskel (left) and Michal Biran.
July 31, 2017, 12:01 am
Southwick delivers Leifer petition
MEMBER for Caulfield David Southwick has presented Israeli politicians with a petition calling for the extradition of alleged child sexual abuser Malka Leifer.
ZFA president Danny Lamm.
July 2, 2017, 12:00 am
Local leaders condemn Netanyahu u-turn
THE Netanyahu government’s reversal of its plans for an egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel and its decision to retain the Orthodox rabbinate’s monopoly on conversions have drawn fire from Australian Jewish leaders.
By Peter Kohn
Caulfield MP David Southwick.
June 30, 2017, 12:02 am
Knesset petitioned over Leifer
THE Victorian Parliamentary Friends of Israel (VPFI) has launched a petition to help bring alleged child sexual abuser Malka Leifer back to Australia.
By Joshua Levi
Lahav Harkov is set to speak in Sydney and Melbourne in June.
May 19, 2017, 12:00 am
Harkov to headline Limmud-Oz
THE Jerusalem Post’s senior Knesset reporter, Lahav Harkov, will present a behind-the-scenes presentation about Israeli politics in Sydney and Melbourne next month.
By Shane Desiatnik
Benjamin Netanyahu meet with Xi Jinping in Beijing this week.
March 23, 2017, 12:01 am
Bibi threatening new election
Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he is considering taking Israel to the polls. Again.
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”.
The West Bank settlement of Beit El. Photo: AP Photo/Nasser Nasser
December 9, 2016, 12:00 am
Settlement bill slammed
Israeli legislators have thrown their weight behind a controversial bill that will retroactively legalise settlement-building on private Palestinian land.
By Nathan Jeffay
An Israeli jogger passes a pro-Trump placard in Tel Aviv. Photo: EPA/Jim Hollander
November 18, 2016, 12:00 am
A Messianic era for Israel
Donald Trump’s election as US president is proof that the Messianic age has arrived, Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri has claimed.
By Nathan Jeffay
November 9, 2016, 1:49 pm
Clash over ‘Wall for all’ heats up
Israel should ignore the feelings of American Jews and break promises for a non-Orthodox prayer section at the Kotel.
Shimon Peres in 2009.
September 29, 2016, 10:27 am
The hawk who became a dove
SHIMON Peres was a Pole who became an icon of Israel. He was a hawk who became the country’s most famous dove. He was a man who struggled for years to endear himself to the public – and finally became a national treasure.
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