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Nelson Mandela’s cousin, King Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo, visited Israel for the first time this week, in stark contrast to the ANC’s hostile stance towards the Jewish state. The trip comes just weeks after Mandela’s granddaughters, Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela, visited...
In the aftermath of the most recent – and seemingly enduring – Gaza ceasefire, Israel finds itself in an invidious and deeply uncomfortable position. On the battlefield, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) achieved...
The number of Israeli visitors to South Africa has more than doubled since before the COVID-19 pandemic, with 2025 marking the highest level recorded in seven...
When Israel Centre Director Dafi Forer Kremer went through with her decision to come to South Africa on shlichut two years ago following the 7 October...
When Devorah Freedman, a young South African woman living in Israel, posted on Facebook that her wedding to her Israeli fiancé would be without family and...
JTA – When Israeli pop star Yoni Bloch created a music video in January depicting scenes of the Israeli hostages returning through the use of artificial...
Best known for her precision in an operating room and her powerful presence online, Dr Sheila Nazarian has also become a prominent voice for Jewish pride...
History has a way of exposing hypocrisy, if only we care enough to read it. When people chant, “Free Palestine,” they never mean Jordan. And yet,...
As we remember what was lost on 7 October 2023, Jewish people around the world are still feeling the pain of that day two years later,...
When Israeli filmmaker and peace activist Yair Qedar showed his film on the life and work of Sigmund Freud in Johannesburg on 26 September, he was...
Making aliya, deciding to leave behind one country and start anew in Israel, is one of the most significant choices a Jew can make. At this...
Despite being warned by the Israeli government not to travel to South Africa, on a recent visit, Israeli influencer Aaron Morali made a point of heading...
Since 7 October 2023, Israel has been fighting multiple wars. Amazingly, its economy still looks relatively unscathed. An article in the Financial Times, published on 14...
Despite progress made in deepening relations between Israel and African countries, the war in Gaza has put these efforts on the back burner. Not enough academic...
A few weeks ago, I found myself stuck in Israel during a war. What began as a short work trip for a conference in Tel Aviv...
The international community’s response to conflicts and human rights violations reveals a troubling pattern of selective moral outrage, where actions by certain states, Israel in particular,...
The Ethiopian Airlines flight path unusually approached Ben Gurion Airport from the east – a sign of the times perhaps to avoid Houthi missiles? As the...
The events of 7 October 2023 shocked the world. That day revealed not only the savagery of the Arab enemies of the Jewish people, but also...
Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife and two children were murdered in a terrorist attack during Pesach 2023, says he believes “antisemitism in the diaspora is G-d’s...
While the world sees Israel as a country at war, it’s quietly sending humanitarian aid and vital relief to help save lives in countries in dire...
For 14 months, Jews around the world have felt alone. Israel is demonised for fighting a defensive war in the wake of the 7 October attacks,...
The image of now former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant saluting the fallen, soldiers, hostages, and their families will go down in Israeli history as one of...
In the Middle East, bluster can be an expression of fear, but it can also reflect the culture of honour and shame present in both political...
Like Tisha B’Av, 7 October will be a day seared in the memory of Jews. It evokes memory of the Holocaust as the largest calamity to...
Israel carries a heavy load for the Jewish world. Even though I spent two weeks in Israel in February 2024 on a self-styled mission, nothing prepared...
“We still believe in a two-state solution, although right now, it doesn’t seem practical,” Yair Golan, the newly appointed leader of the Israeli Democrat Party –...
It felt strange being almost the only tourists in Tzfat in the north of Israel in the middle of June, but I wasn’t expecting to be...
It’s normal for sociopolitical issues to spill into our environment, but the tension caused by strongly held opposing beliefs over the war between Israel and Hamas...
South African visitors to Israel will be required to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation document (ETA-IL) as of 1 July 2024, according to a recent...
Grade 10s routinely go on programmes to Israel for a few weeks every year, but with Israel at war and parents concerned about their children’s safety,...
With a government that has launched genocide accusations against Israel at the ICJ (International Court of Justice), repeatedly welcomed Hamas representatives, and threatened to arrest South...
The author of The Only Jew in the Room, which chronicles his journey as the first and only Jew to study at Al-Qasemi, an Arab Islamic...
A few weeks after the start of the war following the 7 October Hamas attack, I heard of a “solidarity” mission to Israel. My feelings were...
Former Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said, “If you don’t believe in miracles, you’re not a realist.” He was referring to repeated miracles such as the...
Israel Gotora doesn’t believe his meeting with Rabbi Ramon Widmonte, the dean of the Academy of Jewish Thought and Learning, in an Uber from OR Tambo...
Israel’s ruling coalition’s plans to reform or overhaul the judiciary – depending on which side of the argument you stand – has been one of the...
The doomsday scenario that Jewish communities worldwide are hearing and feeling about religion and state in Israel ignores one thing: the realities on the ground. I...
In the Kuchinate studio, a sanctuary for asylum-seeking women from various African countries, a sense of shock and horror lingers after the unprecedented recent violence. Asylum...
Shay Felber was holidaying in Cape Town when violent clashes intensified between the Ethiopian army and Fano militia in Ethiopia’s Amhara province two weeks ago, leaving...
Political unrest. Protests. Polarisation. Terror attacks. Security threats. Diplomatic difficulties. The news coming out of Israel isn’t positive, to say the least. Many are speaking of...
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