Category: News

Bayside Council unanimously adopts antisemitism definition
Australian Jewish News, 17 September 2025
Bayside City Council in Melbourne’s south-east has become the second Victorian local council to formally commit to recognising and addressing antisemitism at its meeting on Tuesday night. [Read Article]

Fiji inaugurates embassy in Israel’s capital of Jerusalem
Jewish News Syndicate, 17 September 2025
The South Pacific country of Fiji inaugurated its embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, becoming the seventh nation to have its diplomatic mission in the capital of Israel. [Read Article]

Groundbreaking ‘biological glue’ invented by Israeli scientists could replace need for stitches in surgery, saving millions of lives
All Israel News, 25 October 2025
A team of Israeli scientists is behind a groundbreaking invention that could change everything about the way surgery is performed and could potentially save millions of lives. [Read Article]

New Israeli artificial cornea implanted for first time, no donor needed
World Israel News, 4 November 2025
A new kind of artificial cornea invented in Israel was implanted Thursday for the first time in the country in a patient who had previously undergone three transplants from human donors without success. The minimally invasive procedure, which takes 30 to 40 minutes, was performed at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot. [Read Article]

World’s first robotic closed abdominal surgery on pregnant patient performed in Israel
All Israel News, 15 November 2025
The Rabin Medical Center near Tel Aviv announced on Thursday that it had performed the world’s first robotic closed abdominal surgery on a pregnant patient. Tsofiya Leibovich (23) gave birth to a girl just weeks after the successful surgery was completed. Known as laparoscopy, the closed abdominal surgery is described by the Cleveland Clinic as a “minimally invasive procedure that looks inside your stomach or pelvis.” [Read Article]

Meriam’s song: How Israeli innovation is helping to save the Great Barrier Reef
All Israel News, 15 November 2025
Shelly Bengiat, founder and chairwoman of Coralz Envirotech Education Group, walked into a church “by accident” and changed her whole approach to the marine conservation work she has dedicated her life to. [Read Article]

After protest at synagogue, Mamdani says Israel immigration event misused ‘sacred space’
The Times of Israel, 21 November 2025
Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayor-elect, has responded to a protest targeting an event promoting immigration to Israel at an Upper East Side synagogue, suggesting that the event was an inappropriate use of a “sacred space.” [Read Article]

‘Means more than any medal’: UK coach runs global marathons in memory of Bibas family
Ynet News, 10 August 2025
Yoel Levy, a UK-based fitness coach and social media influencer, is running marathons worldwide to honor the Bibas family and raise awareness about their story. [Read Article]

Italian Jewish Medical Association demands action after hospital staff film anti-Israel Teva drug disposal
Ynet News, 21 August 2025
A senior member of the Italian Jewish Medical Association has called for immediate disciplinary action against two medical workers who filmed themselves discarding Israeli pharmaceutical products, saying the incident reflects a broader antisemitic climate spreading across European institutions. [Read Article]

New wave: Israeli startup turns sea power into energy at Los Angeles port and beyond
The Times of Israel, 31 August 2025
SAN PEDRO, United States (AFP) — Floating blue paddles dance on the waves that lap a dock in the Port of Los Angeles, silently converting the power of the sea into useable electricity. [Read Article]

‘Jewish Fitness Coach’ runs marathon as Batman
Australian Jewish News, 4 September 2025
UK-based Levy, who combines fitness with activism under the name The Jewish Fitness Coach on social media, ran the entire Sydney Marathon dressed as Batman in honour of Ariel and Kfir Bibas and their mother Shiri. He carried an image of the young brothers and he also ran with them as his screen saver to motivate him throughout the race. [Read Article]

Macron recognizes ‘Palestine’ – and buries France
Israel National News, 9 September 2025
Two weeks. That’s all it took between Macron’s grandiloquent announcement — “France recognizes the State of Palestine!” — and the implosion of his own government. Proof that when you play firefighter-arsonist in the Middle East, you end up burning down your own house. [Read Article]

In a world breakthrough, Israeli researchers grow first long-term human kidney in lab
The Times of Israel, 5 August 2025
In a world first, researchers from Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University have successfully grown human kidney organoids – a synthetic 3D organ culture – using kidney tissue stem cells. [Read Article]

In world 1st bid to cure paralysis, Israeli team gears up to implant innovative spinal cord
The Times of Israel, 21 August 2025
The world’s first-ever spinal cord implant into a paralyzed patient will be performed in Israel in the coming weeks. [Read Article]

Small but significant: Ancient Egyptian coin reshapes view of Jerusalem between Temple periods
All Israel News, 21 August 2025
An ancient gold coin featuring Egyptian Queen Berenice II has been discovered in Jerusalem’s City of David excavations, causing much excitement among experts. The rare coin is small in size, but significant in shaping the way historians understand the city of Jerusalem following the destruction of the First Temple. [Read Article]

Germany: Palestinian state recognition now is ‘counterproductive’
Jewish News Syndicate, 22 August 2025
Berlin has no immediate plans to recognize a Palestinian state, a German government spokesperson declared on Friday, calling such a move at this stage “counterproductive.” [Read Article]

Building E1 between Jerusalem, Ma’aleh Adumim is critical for Israel’s future – opinion
The Jerusalem Post, 22 August 2025
There are six key reasons why building E1 is key for the future of Jerusalem, Israel’s security, and diplomatic sanity. E1 begins on the eastern slopes of the Mount of Olives and runs along the road towards Ma’aleh Adumim. Every Israeli prime minister since Yitzhak Rabin has planned and promised to build there for salient reasons: municipal and strategic imperatives that only have grown with time. [Read Article]

Israel’s most advanced communications satellite successfully launched by SpaceX
The Times of Israel, 13 July 2025
Israel’s most advanced communications satellite, dubbed Dror-1, was successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral in the United States on Sunday. [Read Article]

In wartime innovation, researchers develop artificial skin to help burn victims
The Times of Israel, 14 July 2025
Driven by the war and the surging number of soldiers and civilians suffering from severe burns, researchers from Tel Aviv University and Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center say they have developed a unique bioengineered skin to use for grafting in burn victims. [Read Article]

‘Money that can expire’: RBA laying groundwork for a dystopian financial reality where ‘money is given a brain and then the switch is handed to someone else’
Sky News Australia, 21 July 2025
Something is happening to money. Not the kind of change you notice right away. The kind that takes shape quietly, in boardrooms and briefing notes. [Read Article]

First-ever ancient blade manufacturing workshop uncovered in southern Israel
i24 News, 28 July 2025
The Israel Antiquities Authority has uncovered an ancient blade manufacturing site, along with the flint cores from which the blades were once made, in an archeological excavation conducted ahead of the construction of a new neighborhood in the southern Israeli city Kiryat Gat. [Read Article]

‘Pure calculated theatre’: How Australia is killing cash while pretending to save it with ‘feel-good’ pledges to protect access to physical money
Sky News Australia, 29 July 2025
Australia’s regulators just unveiled their grand plan to slow the death of cash. New registries. Enhanced oversight. A $25.5 million lifeline to Armaguard, the country’s last cash carrier. [Read Article]

Arab League condemns Oct. 7, urges Hamas to disarm
World Israel News, 30 July 2025
The Arab League has issued its first-ever condemnation of the October 7 attacks, calling on Hamas to disarm and step aside from Palestinian leadership. [Read Article]

Reverse water carrier set to begin pumping into Sea of Galilee, three years after completion
allisraelnews, 30 July 2025
Three years after construction was completed and the reverse water carrier – designed to transfer desalinated water via the National Water Carrier to the Sea of Galilee – was inaugurated, the project is set to be activated for the first time this coming October, Kan News reported Tuesday. [Read Article]

Ancient mosaic unearthed in southern Israel now restored and ready for public viewing
All Israel News, 30 May 2025
One of the most spectacular mosaics ever found in Israel is now on display to the public for the first time. The Be’er Shema (Birsama) mosaic was discovered almost 35 years ago near Kibbutz Urim in the Negev Desert, and is believed to be approximately 1,600 years old. [Read Article]

Anti-Israel motion fails in Northern Beaches
The Australian Jewish News, 19 June 2025
An anti-Israel motion about the conflict in Gaza, penned by Greens councillor Ethan Hrnjak, failed to pass at a June 17 Northern Beaches Council meeting, in which the city’s mayor, Sue Heins, described the motion’s nature and timing as “abhorrent”. [Read Article]

Sanhedrin Issues Declaration to Muslim World Following Israeli Military Success Against Iran
Israel 365 News, 25 June 2025
The nascent Sanhedrin has issued a sweeping religious declaration to the Muslim world following Israel’s recent military strikes against Iran, asserting that Israel’s battlefield successes demonstrate divine favour and calling on Muslims to recognise the Jewish people as God’s chosen nation. [Read Article]

Messiah in the air: Ben-Gvir authorizes Jewish singing, dancing on Temple Mount
World Israel News, 26 June 2025
For the first time in years, Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount were permitted to sing and dance openly across the entire compound, marking a historic shift in enforcement policy under Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. [Read Article]

Ayatollah Proudly Announces Iran Has Destroyed 14 Bunker Buster Bombs With Its Nuclear Facilities
The Babylon Bee, 26 June 2025
TEHRAN — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared a resounding victory over the United States and Israel after Iran destroyed 14 American bunker buster bombs with its nuclear facilities. [Read Article]

Bronze Lion Heads Unearthed in Archaeological Dig in the Sharon Region
The Jewish Press.com, 27 June 2025
In a rare archaeological revelation, four exquisitely crafted bronze discs bearing lion-head designs—dating back nearly 1,900 years to the Roman period—have been unveiled for the first time in the latest issue of ‘Atiqot, the journal of the Israel Antiquities Authority. [Read Article]

Israeli researchers develop tastier tomatoes utilizing new innovative method
All Israel News, 28 June 2025
Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a new innovative method that could result in tastier and climate-resilient tomatoes. Professor Eilon Shani and Ph.D. student Amichai Berman led the study, which was a collaborative effort with other researchers in Israel and at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing. The Israeli agri-tech business NetaGenomiX also participated in the study and the findings were published in Nature Communications. [Read Article]

Historical Moment In Israel
Pulse of Israel, 24 March, 2025
For the first time ever, the Israeli government is openly addressing the deep state’s control over the country! In a groundbreaking government meeting, Ministers and Prime Minister Netanyahu have finally put the issue on the table—exposing how unelected bureaucrats have been overriding the will of the people for years. This is a massive turning point. By openly discussing what was once never spoken about, the government is paving the way for the public to finally understand the truth—and support the changes needed to restore real democracy in Israel. [Watch Video]

Israeli doctors are pumped after country’s first successful artificial heart transplants
The Times of Israel, 7 June 2025
Israel celebrated its first successful artificial heart transplant at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on May 25. Four days later, a second successful artificial heart transplant took place at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan. [Read Article]

Israeli scientists discover immune cells that ‘both fight and fuel’ breast cancer
The Times of Israel, 9 June 2025
Tel Aviv University researchers say they have found that a type of white blood cell, usually known for fighting infection, might help breast tumors grow and spread. [Read Article]

GHF distributes 2.5 million meals in largest single-day delivery
Jewish News Syndicate, 11 June 2025
The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation stated it delivered roughly 2.5 million meals on Wednesday, its largest single-day delivery to date. The total number of meals GHF has distributed is now reported at more than 16 million. [Read Article]

The legality of the Gaza Flotilla interception
Israel National News, 11 June 2025
The interception of the Madleen “Freedom Flotilla,” approximately 100 nautical miles off the Israeli coast in international waters (well beyond Israel’s 12-nautical-mile territorial limit), predictably ignited a firestorm of accusations regarding its legality. [Read Article]

Genocide Lie Debunked: Why Israel’s 2.4% Death Toll Shocks the World!
Israel 365 News, 11 June 2025
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, launched in response to Hamas’s brutal October 2023 attacks, has been unjustly branded as genocidal by critics, including activists like Greta Thunberg, who recently joined a Gaza aid mission aboard the so-called “selfie ship,” the Madleen. Yet, the facts tell a different story. [Read Article]

Why international law is on Israel’s side in the Gaza conflict – opinion
The Jerusalem Post, 9 June 2025
Israel’s war in Gaza is necessary to national survival, and its associated military actions impact Palestinian civilians because of Palestinian perfidy. In essence, Israel’s war against jihadi terror must be fought on two separate but overlapping dimensions: operational and legal. Though each dimension presents challenging elements, the second, or jurisprudential, standard needs immediate clarification and support. [Read Article]

Orange butterfly named in honor of Ariel Bibas
Israel National News, 4 April 2025

The Academy of Hebrew Language has informed former hostage Yarden Bibas that it is renaming the “Ketmit Jerusalem” butterfly to “Ketmit Ariel” in honor of his four-year-old son, Ariel, who was taken captive by Hamas and brutally murdered in Gaza. [Read Article]

Top-ranked Israeli robotics team gives up championship bid over Shabbat observance
The Times Of Israel, 23 April 2025

An Israeli youth robotics team withdrew from the final round of an elite robotics championships over the weekend in Texas due to their religious observance of Shabbat, which precludes the use of electronics, among other things. [Read Article]

‘I have loved you with an everlasting love’: 77 reasons I love Israel as she turns 77
All Israel News, 7 May 2025

Jerusalem, Israel — Never has it been more challenging to be an Israeli. Yet never have Lynn and I been more grateful to be citizens of the State of Israel, or to live in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, or to be in love with the God of Israel and His Word, or to have the honor and joy of teaching others about God’s great love and prophetic plan for Israel and the Jewish people. [Read Article]

European Parliament freezes funding to the Palestinian Authority due to antisemitic textbooks
All Israel News, 8 May 2025

The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to freeze funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah due to the ongoing “antisemitism, incitement to violence, hate speech, and glorification of terrorism” in Arabic-language schoolbooks used by the PA as well as the UN agency UNRWA. [Read Article]

Caught in the crossfire: Gaza’s Christians suffer as Hamas hides behind churches
World Israel News, 9 May 2025
In Gaza, one of Christianity’s oldest communities faces extinction — not simply from war, but from being used as human shields in a cynical terror strategy. [Read Article]

Did Red Heifers From Texas Spark The War In Israel?
Harbinger’s Daily, 9 May 2025

It was just a few years ago when several red heifers were spotted in Rockwall, Texas. They were carefully inspected, and after being qualified by several rabbis, they were transported to Israel, where they still reside today. So, what is the big deal with these red cows, and more importantly, why would Hamas concern itself with a Jewish Temple requirement? [Read Article]

Greens’ wild turn on Israel cost them
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, 9 May 2025

The Greens party’s dismal election results, which may see them all but ejected from the lower house, show that Australia has largely rejected and is punishing its hatred and inflammatory, divisive rhetoric. [Read Article]

Israel’s advanced spinal implant tech gives hope to patients suffering from chronic pain
All Israel News, 2 March 2025

Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, outside of Tel Aviv, has developed an advanced spinal implant that raises hope for those who suffer from chronic pain. The medical device utilizes real-time sensor data to dramatically improve the patients’ quality of life by adjusting pain management.[Read Article]

Innovative Israeli malaria test sparks hope for saving millions worldwide
All Israel News, 8 March 2025

Israeli researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science near Tel Aviv have developed an innovative malaria test that could potentially save millions of human lives around the world. The testing method consists of a new protein designed to detect dormant so-called Plasmodium vivax parasites in malaria patients. [Read Article]

Gal Gadot is first Israeli actor to receive star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Times Of Israel, 18 March 2025

Gal Gadot received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, becoming the first Israeli actor to be awarded the honor. Speaking at the ceremony, Gadot referred several times to her Israeli roots, even speaking some Hebrew. [Read Article]

Pakistani delegation tours Israel and visits Hostages Square in rare visit from hostile country
All Israel News, 18 March 2025

Unknown to most Israelis, a delegation from Pakistan visited Israel last week, at the invitation of the Sharaka organization, aiming to build bridges between the two countries. [Read Article]

Baby boom: Birth rates in Israel are on the rise, primarily in Jewish families
The Jerusalem Post, 19 March 2025

Israel is witnessing an increase in birth rates, particularly among Jewish families, according to the latest birth statistics for 2024, after a prolonged decline in the number of children per family. [Read Article]

‘After Oct. 7, we want to be with our people’: Doctors flock to Israel
Israel Hayom, 19 March 2025

To an outside observer, it seems almost strange. An event in the heart of New Jersey with hundreds of visitors, citizens of the United States, interested in relocation. And not just any move, but to a country at war on seven fronts, some highly active and others hidden from view, simmering beneath the surface. [Read Article]

Waverley Council’s Aussie first
Australian Jewish News, 20 March 2025

Waverley Council on Tuesday night endorsed the first local government strategy to combat antisemitism in NSW and Australia. [Read Article]

Israel lifts all restrictions on northern border communities
Jewish News Syndicate, 24 February 2025

The Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command has lifted all remaining restrictions on communities along Israel’s northern border, initially imposed due to hostilities with Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. [Read Article]

ICJ grants African Union permission to join case against Israel
Jewish News Syndicate, 23 February 2025

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday granted the African Union permission to participate in South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide.[Read Article]

Buenos Aires’ Palestine Street to Be Renamed ‘Bibas Family Street’
The Jewish Press, 23 February 2025

The city of Buenos Aires is in the process of renaming “Palestine Street” to “Bibas Family Street,” following the tragic deaths of Argentine national Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, … [Read Article]

Protest Against Greens Party Event Draws 100
The Australian Jewish News, 24 February 2025

A protest organised by community group J-United drew approximately 100 demonstrators in Melbourne on Saturday, at what was meant to be the site of a Greens Party community barbecue. [Read Article]

What are Palestinian ‘refugee camps’ and why do they exist in Palestinian territory?
All Israel News, 23 February 2025

The existence of Palestinian refugee camps within the Palestinian-ruled territories can be confusing to those unfamiliar with the Arab-Israeli conflict. How can Palestinians be refugees in their own territory? [Read Article]

35,000 Jews have immigrated to Israel since last year’s Hamas Oct 7 terror attack
All Israel News, 29 December 2024

Approximately 35,000 Jews worldwide have immigrated to the Jewish state since the Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel in 2023, according to a Jewish Agency report published on Sunday. The data revealed that Jewish immigrants hail from some 100 countries, with 31,000 moving to Israel in 2024. [Read Article]

All travelers to Israel must obtain visa starting January 2025
The Jerusalem Post, 30 December 2024

As of January 2025, visitors to Israel will need an ETA-IL – an electronic travel authorization permit – or visa, with the exception of Israeli citizens or those who have an identity number, the Population and Immigration Authority said on Monday. [Read Article]

Ice Hockey Australia slammed for cancelling 2025 event over inclusion of Israeli team
The Australian Jewish News, 14 January 2025

Ice Hockey Australia’s (IHA) recent decision to pull out of hosting a 2025 Ice Hockey World Championships men’s division 2 series in Melbourne in April that includes an Israeli team – citing “safety and security risks” – has been slammed by Australian Jewish leaders, Israel’s Ambassador to Australia Amir Maimon, and Victoria’s Police Minister Anthony Carbines. [Read Article]

Attorney-General visits Israel
The Australian Jewish News, 14 January 2025

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has arrived in Israel amid strained bilateral relations between the two nations. It comes at a delicate time for Australian-Israeli relations, with Jewish community leaders expressing serious concern over recent shifts in Australia’s policy stance. [Read Article]

‘Global emergency’: Nearly half the world’s adults hold antisemitic views — ADL survey
Times of Israel, 14 January 2025

Nearly half of all adults worldwide hold significant antisemitic views and younger people are more likely to discriminate against Jews, according to an Anti-Defamation League survey released on Tuesday. [Read Article]