With the burning of Synagogues by Arab youth in the mixed Israeli Jewish-Arab city of Lod, and the beating of an Arab citizen by extremist Jews in Ramle, both during the present conflict, we are witnessing the end of the proposed 1 State solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Some hard-line pro-Palestinian people in Labor have…
State Conference motions – Apartheid, Settlement Expansion, Human Rights To all supporters of Palestine in the Australian Labor Party: Motions to State Conference are due at head office by 4pm July 14. The attached articles provide material that might be relevant in forwarding motions from branches and unions to the conference that deal with Palestine…
Opinion: In a Ynet exclusive, Mohamed al Khaja, the UAE’s first envoy to Israel, celebrates the stark similarities between the two nations, their budding bonhomie and sends a warm invitation to all Israelis to visit his homeland and enjoy locals’ hospitality. The Abraham Accords changed the course of history and established, for the first time,…
Today is Yom Hashoah, a day to remember the victims, survivors and heroes of the Holocaust. On Yom Hashoah, six candles are lit, each one representing one million Jewish lives lost. This also serves as a touching representation of the triumph of light over darkness. As a country with one of the highest concentrations of…
The Labor Party leader took pride in the fact that under her leadership, Labor became the first-ever Knesset list which was split completely evenly between men and women. Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli spoke with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Saturday on a range of subjects, from the party’s plans in the 2021 Israel Election on Tuesday,…
A collection of more than 1,800 stone artifacts has been returned to Australia from the Israel Museum as part of ongoing efforts to honor Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage. The transfer of the artifacts, including spears, stone tools, grindstones and other large and small objects, is the first time objects have been sent back…
That this House: (1) notes that: (a) 4 November 2020 marks 25 years since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at an anti-violence rally in support of the Oslo peace process; (b) a condolence motion for Prime Minister Rabin was moved in this House on 23 November 1995 by the Prime Minister, Mr Keating,…
Myriad deals between the two countries run gamut from health-tech to diamonds, but food-tech and agri-tech are top priorities, investors agree. Food security is emerging as a key area in which the UAE is eager for Israeli expertise, investors in each country tell ISRAEL21c. The Gulf states import more than 90 percent of their food.…
In this week’s Behind the Headlines discussion, Member of Knesset Merav Michaeli will discuss the current chaotic state of the Israeli government with ToI Senior Analyst Haviv Rettig Gur.
Kevin Rudd: ‘Michael Gawenda is free to criticise me for things I’ve said and done, but his assertions in this account are flatly untrue’. THE factional manoeuvrings of Labor’s faceless men a decade ago are convoluted enough without demonstrable misrepresentations by authors like Michael Gawenda in his biography of Mark Leibler, The Powerbroker. Gawenda claims…