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JTA – As she watched a cascade of seemingly conflicting news reports about the three highest-profile Israeli hostages, Noam Nisim didn’t know what to think. First,...
JTA – The trees abutting the road leading to Biriya Forest, a nature preserve in northern Israel, at first resemble spruces turning autumnal shades of red,...
South African-born Aviva Siegel is “smiling from ear to ear” now that she has been reunited with her beloved husband, Keith, 65, who was released from...
“When I dance, I pray,” Israeli tattoo artist Shani Louk told her father, Nissim Louk, when he asked about her insatiable passion for dance festivals around...
The Friday before 7 October 2023, Nir Oz kindergarten teacher Roxana Salimson told the children in the class to have a good Shabbat and Simchat Torah,...
Since 7 October, living in Israel is a series of paradoxes. If you ever wondered what it’s like to feel a confluence of contradicting emotions, this...
“Hamas terrorists would tell hostages, ‘Nobody’s looking for you. Nobody cares. You’re going to stay here.’ They would even say to the women that they were...
The Israeli embassy hosted the family of Shani Louk at the Pretoria Hebrew Congregation on 30 January. Louk, 22, was one of more than 360 people...
JTA – “They are in our hands,” Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on the huge screen that was broadcasting the tense release of the...
As Israelis prepared this past week for the ceasefire and hostage exchange between Hamas and Israel, the tension and anxiety was palpable. All we can do...
The Hamas “hostage for terrorist ceasefire” deal brokered by Qatar and the United States has triggered debate in Israel and among its allies and adversaries alike....
Israel will claim victory. Hamas will claim victory. But the people of Israel and the Palestinian people know that there are no winners. No-one has won...
The six weeks in January, during which we read the Torah portions recounting our slavery and redemption from Egypt, are known as the period of “Shovavim”....
Up-and-coming musician, singer, writer, and poet, Bongani Mehlomakhulu was so upset by what he saw of the Nova festival massacre on 7 October 2023, he was...
JTA – Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal that will cease more than a year of fighting in Gaza and Israel, bring dozens of...
First Sergeant Netanel Pessach, the son of an ex-South African, was killed in combat in Gaza in December. His family’s call for unity has sparked acts...
Trigger warning: piece contains graphic scenes of sexual violence “You wouldn’t come out unscathed, or alive, if you went to Gaza dressed like that.” This comment...
Freed South African-born hostage Aviva Siegel ached at her mother-in-law’s funeral this week, mourning not only the loss of the family matriarch but the prolonged absence...
JTA – Eyal Golan sat at a table flanked by two citrus trees in his parents’ garden in the pastoral community of Porat, a makeshift office...
The former managing director of Yeshiva College, Rabbi Leron Bernstein, who now lives in Israel, was project director of One Day in October, a book about...
As antisemitism continues to run rampant in the streets of Europe and in communities around the United States, the groundbreaking new film, Tragic Awakening, gives viewers...
Photojournalist Ilan Ossendryver is launching his book, Israel After 7th Oct this week. The SA Jewish Report speaks to him. What inspired you to create this...
“We have enough faith to survive in any situation that will come to us,” freed Israeli hostage Moran Stella Yanai told South Africans at a talk...
Once the first few waves of shock and nausea had passed, I began receiving messages that read, “Thank G-d you weren’t there!” Though I’m far from...
The sight of Jews gathering in song while a large crowd of aggressive anti-Israel activists swore at them, tore down their posters, and threatened them is...
The verse “a time to be born and a time to die” in Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), which speaks of there being a time and season for everything,...
Born in Israel and raised in South Africa before returning to live in the Jewish state, clinical psychologist Lihie Gilhar says that in the wake of...
“It’s hard to think that in one devastating day, our lives were changed so dramatically,” says Lotus Lahav (22). Both she and her mother, Irit Lahav...
Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel’s first president, was once asked why Jews insisted on settling in Palestine when there were so many other countries...
A beautiful bougainvillea is in full bloom. Its purple leaves bring a burst of colour. Behind the vibrant bush, a house has been decimated, scorch marks...
It’s uncanny how 7 October 2023 changed the world in much the same manner as 6 October 1973. The parallels and congruencies between these cataclysmic events...
What started as a violent conflict between Israel and Hamas in the south of Israel on 7 October 2023 has now evolved into a war on...
Soon after 7 October, SA Jewish Report photographer Ilan Ossendryver spent time in Israel, capturing the pain of the massacre and how Israelis kept going. He...
Every Israeli clearly remembers where they were on 7 October 2023. I was at home in Tel Aviv watching television, and saw a conversation between a...
One year after the atrocities on 7 October, Grade 10 and 11 students at King David Linksfield and Victory Park joined forces to create an exhibition...
As a people, we’re still haunted by the images of what happened on 7 October, “when the gates of hell opened, and Hamas terrorists unleashed a...
“No-one could imagine a 7 October. The magnitude of what happened that day was entirely new and unprecedented. We didn’t have the resources. We listened to...
Every day is tough for the ex-South African parents of slain Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Yaron Chitiz, 23, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in...
A well-known Johannesburg rebbetzin confided that she harboured a “sort of crush” on British political commentator Douglas Murray, and secretly wished she had invited him for...
City of Johannesburg officials have ordered a Jewish family to remove the yellow ribbons tied around a tree outside their home, a symbol of solidarity with...
