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In the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, Jerusalem. Photo: Rebecca Davis
May 3, 2019, 1:51 pm
Jerusalem or Tel Aviv?
IT is an age-old debate, even more polarising than the Melbourne versus Sydney argument. Jerusalem or Tel Aviv?
By Rebecca Davis
Israel’s Netta Barzilai winning last year’s Eurovision song contest. Photo: AP Photo/Armando Franca
February 7, 2019, 12:00 am
Standing up to the Eurovision boycott brigade
SBS is to be applauded for its principled stand. Eurovision is about music; keep politics out of it.
By vic alhadeff
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews. Photo: DS images/Dean Schmideg
December 15, 2017, 12:00 am
Trade war of political words
The Jewish community is thrilled that the Victorian government has opened a trade office in Israel irrespective of its location.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
December 14, 2017, 12:00 am
Australia won’t move embassy to Jerusalem
Australia will not follow the lead of the United States and move its embassy to Jerusalem. "Our policy position remains precisely where it has been for many years," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said this week.
By Joshua Levi
Ron Yitzhak Kokia, an IDF soldier who was stabbed to death in a terrorist attack in Israel on November 30. Photo: IDF
December 7, 2017, 9:05 am
Nineteen-year-old murdered
He was waiting for a ride to go home for the weekend, but instead of getting picked up and seeing his loved ones, Ron Kokia was brutally killed in Israel's latest terrorist attack.
By Nathan Jeffay
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert leaving jail.
July 6, 2017, 12:01 am
Olmert released from prison
FORMER Prime Minister Ehud Olmert walked free this week, leaving prison after serving just 16 months of his 27-month sentence for corruption. 
Thousands of Israeli Left wing activists particiapted a rally in Rabin Square, Tel-Aviv, calling for talks with Palestinians and in support of the two states solution on May 27, 2017. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90
June 1, 2017, 12:01 am
A cause for celebration or mourning?
JUST three days after a concert at the Kotel to mark Yom Yerushalayim, another massive crowd gathered in Tel Aviv to mark the very same occasion. This time, angry speeches took the place of jubilant dancing.
From left: Senator James Paterson, Jamie Hyams, Kate Ashmor, David Southwick, Victorian Liberal Leader Matthew Guy, MP Tim Smith and Caulfield electorate conference chair Daniel Weil.
April 6, 2017, 12:00 am
Vic Libs call for embassy move
The stage could be set for Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop to greenlight a move of Australia’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem after the influential Victorian branch of the Liberal Party voted resoundingly for a switch from Tel Aviv.
Hila Oren addresses the audience at CityTalks in Sydney last week. Photo courtesy: City of Sydney
April 3, 2017, 12:03 am
Making Sydney a smart city
TEL Aviv is a smart city in more ways than one. Largely thanks to the efforts of Tel Aviv Global CEO Hila Oren, residents are enjoying improved innovation, nightlife, connectivity through their own personalised “digital card” and free Wi-Fi all over the city.
By Yael Brender
Dana Dion.
March 16, 2017, 10:10 am
Art meets with nature on Dion’s palette
SYDNEY artist Dana Dion’s latest exhibition comprises works inspired by the views through branches and trees where she lives and works.
Artist Yosl Bergner in his Tel Aviv studio.
February 8, 2017, 11:19 am
Yosl Bergner’s lifetime of art
Artist Yosl Bergner won acclaim for his art in Australia in the 1940s and in Israel since settling there in 1950, working in his Tel Aviv studio until shortly before his death on January 18, aged 96.
Jewish police detain a former Kapo who was recognised in the street at the Zeilsheim displaced persons’ camp in Germany. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alice Lev)
February 6, 2017, 12:02 am
Kapo trials revealed
BETWEEN 1950 and 1972 the State of Israel prosecuted approximately 40 Holocaust survivors in a set of trials known as the “Kapo Trials”.
By Yael Brender
Donald Trump with Benjamin Netanyahu in New York. Photo Kobi Gideon/GPO
February 1, 2017, 2:50 pm
Bibi blasted over Trump wall tweet
Already in hot water over his support for Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed his White House visit for February 15.
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
Dave Sharma at the Ozraeli Gala.
October 6, 2016, 9:53 am
Diplomacy with a difference
IN one of the most unusual diplomatic functions that Israel has seen, 350 people packed into a Jaffa courtyard to toast Australia-Israel “mateship”.
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