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JTA – If you believe the polls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s dominant political player and media maestro for the past decade and a half, is poised to...
At a time when relations between the South African and Israeli governments remain deeply strained, a group of royals has returned from Israel calling for greater cooperation between the countries. The 12-member delegation...
I’ve been in Israel making good use of public transport. Whether it’s a taxi or bus, more often than not, the radio is on and after a while, you start recognising the songs. So what...
In the months after 7 October a joke circulated in Israeli tech circles that the country had produced more wartime demo videos than product launches. It was funny in the...
As we approach Rosh Hashanah, there’s the impetus to do our personal cheshbon nefesh, an audit of our shortcomings, achievements, and areas we want to improve going into a new year. The timing couldn’t be more apt for...
When my recruitment business failed after three years, I returned to the corporate world carrying more than disappointment. I felt ashamed. I had invested my hopes and...
I had put a visit to the holy land at the top of my bucket list when I’d left full-time employment to start writing books three years ago. I had every intention...
JTA – Israel’s High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by Israeli expatriates seeking to vote in the 27 October elections after discovering that they had been excluded from...
Savvy consumers among SA Jewish Report readers will no doubt be familiar with a phenomenon that occurs during periods of higher prices and inflation. Your local restaurant may...
There was never any expectation that a group of 21 Israelis and 30 South Africans would agree with each other. In fact, that would have made...
Tanya Silverman and Janine Berzen are still pinching themselves after winning gold at an international pickleball tournament in Vietnam. The South African-born pair danced and sang on the...
JTA – Israel and Greece finalised on Monday a $3.5 billion (R56.4 billion) deal providing the Hellenic Republic with a multilayered antimissile system designed to protect the European Union...
Three years after 7 October and in a relatively quiet time in Israel, Telfed volunteers continue to support soldiers, families, and children. This included a large group in Ra’anana packing back-to-school gifts for 1...
JTA – A window was broken at a Reform synagogue in the central Israeli city of Ramat Hasharon less than two weeks after a similar incident...
For Israel’s national cricket side, with its South African team manager and two South African players, competing in Finland from 14 to 21 August meant dealing with far...
JTA –The Dutch public broadcaster Avrotr os has pulled out of the next Eurovision Song Contest, saying that Israel’s participation undermined the event’s neutrality. Avrotros announced on...
For Israel, the battle is no longer only a military one. Dan Feferman told Limmud Cape Town that the information space is as strategic a battlefield, capable of shaping public opinion, political decisions,...
JTA – When Iris Meiri-Snir moved from Israel to northern Italy last month, she gave up a job she loved, proximity to her children and grandchildren,...
JTA – About a month before the 7 October massacres, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), was unveiled at the G20 summit in New Delhi. Envisioned as a network of...
Snatched from their mothers while they were still suckling, two lion cubs endured the cruelty of the illegal wildlife trade, one found tied by a painfully short rope, and both...
When 11-day-old Angel needed an urgent heart procedure, an Israeli doctor kept a promise to a Rwandan cardiologist he had trained. Dr Sagi Assa flew more than 4 000km to Kigali to help Dr...
For more than a decade, Pastor Jenny Pillay has travelled across Africa and beyond with one goal: to get Christians to understand why they should stand with Israel and...
When South African-born Israeli reservist Eyal* returned home after weeks of fighting in Gaza, the war refused to leave him. His body was back in Modi‘in, but his mind remained...
When South African student Avi crossed the stage to collect his qualification at Ariel University last week, he wasn’t just celebrating three years of hard work. He was part...
Mark Regev, former Israeli ambassador and senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, offered a rare glimpse into diplomatic decision-making during war when he addressed a packed audience in...
While most Grade 8 pupils were settling into high school, Herzlia’s Yoni Melnik was testing himself against some of Israel’s best young swimmers at the Israeli National Swimming Championships in Netanya from...
JTA – Israelis are exiting the country in high numbers, a trend that could harm the State’s future security and economy, according to a new demography study...
JTA – Israel has rejected a Gaza peace plan advanced with much fanfare by US President Donald Trump, saying it did not adequately address disarmament by Hamas. “There...
South Africa is losing one of its closest international partners in its diplomatic campaign against Israel. This after Colombia’s newly elected president, Abelardo de la Espriella, announced the...
Almost every advanced economy is quietly trying to do the same thing right now. A pandemic cut their supply chains. A war turned energy into a weapon....
JTA – Oren Pesso, a Tel Aviv performance artist and the frontman of the avant-garde musical group Jilber and the Cats, opened his performance on Friday at HaTanacha Park in Tel Aviv...
A delegation of South African educators and Jewish National Fund South Africa staff has returned from the annual KKL-JNF International Educators’ Seminar changed by what they saw and better equipped...
South Africa is the world’s biggest exporter of coal to Israel, and it may now allow a large Israeli company, Navitas Petroleum, to become an operator of oil and gas exploration in the Orange Basin, off the country’s West Coast. This...
JTA – “Mouaz, what do you think, should I go?” The day after Henry Hamra learned that Islamist rebels had ousted Bashar Assad from power ‒ ending more...
JTA – Shorty, the aptly named 4-foot-8-inch medical clown, stood between two young patients riding coin-operated toy cars in the lobby of Tel Aviv’s children’s hospital,...
Appearing alongside one of the internet’s most controversial influencers has rocked the lives of two Cape Town-born siblings. It has triggered disciplinary action by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), unleashed vicious online...
JTA – When Israeli influencer Aaron Morali realised that the celebrity drawing a crowd at Tel Aviv’s Loullie beach club on Saturday night was Braden Peters ‒ better known as Clavicular ‒ he...
JAA – While Americans view Israelis far more favourably than the Israeli government, their opinion of the Jewish State’s residents has continued to decline, according to a...
Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi’s remarks that Israel is trying to undermine South Africa in retaliation for the “genocide” case has fuelled a narrative that somehow the Jewish State is behind the anti-illegal immigration protests. The allegation has...
There are moments when silence feels like complicity. This is one of them. We have watched, with growing anger and sadness, as a small but politically connected element of...
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