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Nov 15, 2018
Fifteen hours. That’s all it took for Hamas to shoot 460 rockets and mortars at southern Israel.
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Nov 15, 2018
On Monday evening, the skirmish raging between Israel and Hamas became very real for former Deputy Israeli Ambassador to South Africa, Michael Freeman, and his wife, Sigalit. They learned that the home of Sigalit’s mother had been hit by rocket fire, and neither of them was in a position to do anything.
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Nov 15, 2018
South African Minister of State Security Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba makes it clear that while the Jewish community is under no particular threat, the department of state security takes seriously its mandate to protect the country’s citizens.
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Nov 15, 2018
Danni Heymann, the King David Victory Park Grade 12 pupil at the centre of last week’s anti-Semitic WhatsApp voice note, went from being a victim to feeling sympathetic and genuinely fond of the boy who sent her the message.
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Nov 15, 2018
South African olah, Nava Uner, has lived through two previous Gaza attacks, but this past week was undoubtedly the worst.
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Nov 15, 2018
As I was heading home on Tuesday, I heard on ChaiFM that 460 rockets had been fired from Gaza into Israel since late Sunday. That is an outrageous number. If every one of them hit inhabited areas, thousands of Israelis would have been killed.
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Nov 15, 2018
Late on Tuesday, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect. While at the time of writing the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) had still not confirmed the existence of such a truce, Israeli citizens living in the south of the country were told they could return home and to “normalcy”.
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Nov 15, 2018
“The president is not directly responsible for acts of domestic terrorism, but he should be more careful with his language.” That’s the way the Economist headlined its report on the horrific Pittsburgh killings just more than two weeks ago.
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Nov 15, 2018
As Herzlia Middle School’s prestigious prize-giving evening came to a close, two Grade 9 boys stepped forward from the rest of their grade on the stage and knelt down (known as “taking the knee” as a form of protest) in front of the audience when the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah, was sung. The audience was shocked at what many people believed was a flagrant disregard of the ethos of the school.
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Nov 15, 2018
The founder and Chief Executive of Discovery, Adrian Gore, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Sunday Times Top 100 Companies Awards last week.
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Fifteen hours. That’s all it took for Hamas to shoot 460 rockets and mortars at southern Israel.
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Danni Heymann, the King David Victory Park Grade 12 pupil at the centre of last week’s anti-Semitic WhatsApp voice note, went from being a victim to feeling sympathetic and genuinely fond of the boy who sent her the message.
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Whether you’re Israeli or South African, you know that hummus is, by definition, a savoury dish prepared using chickpeas, spices, and olive oil.
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There are four young Israelis living in Pretoria who have caused quite a stir – not least of all because they are housed at the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa (NZG). Three of them hail from Tel Aviv, and one from Jerusalem. And, their every move is monitored as they are on constant display, with people coming from all over to see them.
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The Tree of Life Congregation community of Pittsburgh was participating in the worldwide Shabbos Project last Saturday when a gunman opened fire and killed 11 congregants in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. This was confirmed by a number of ex-South African Jews in Pittsburgh, including Dr Marlene Behrmann Cohen, who lives in Squirrel Hill – ‘ground zero’ of the attack.
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