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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...
JTA – Just days before the start of the Maccabiah Games, held every four years in Israel, Australia was officially out of the competition. It had cancelled...
“When I look up at the sky, I have to figure out if what I am seeing is a bird or a drone,” says Adrienne Chonowitz, who made...
JTA – A new survey found that 48% of American voters think the United States is “too supportive” of Israel, the highest since the pollster started...
JTA – More than five decades after Israel’s only World Cup appearance, the Israel Football Association (IFA) says it has no intention of trying to leave Europe for...
“We asked the world: Do you see us? Israel answered first.” So wrote Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, president of a republic that has governed itself for 35 years without the...
JTA – The cofounders of the Israeli coexistence group Standing Together have launched a new Arab-Jewish political party in advance of the upcoming election, joining several other left-wing parties hoping...
South African faith leaders expected a summit on antisemitism. Few expected their first lesson to begin on the airport tarmac. Minutes after landing at Ben Gurion...
On Monday morning, waking up to news that Iran had fired missiles towards central Israel again sent shivers up my spine. Not again, was my first thought. The idea that the...
JTA – Iran says it has completed its attack on Israel after its missile barrage on Sunday night launched the first direct exchange of hostilities since...
JTA – As missiles flew towards Israel on Sunday night, beleaguered Israelis once again took to Facebook from their safe rooms. “Whoever is in charge of naming...
US Ambassador to South Africa L Brent Bozell III has warned that the government’s stance on Israel and Iran, and its broader foreign policy alignment has created an “impasse” with Washington. This,...
An attempt by anti-Israel activists to silence dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was thwarted last week by the commitment of St Mary’s School, Waverley to have this conversation securely. The Johannesburg school invited Coordinator of...
JTA – A dangerous instinct is on the rise in the Jewish world right now: the belief that we must choose between defending Israel and defending...
The dreams of more than 100 South African Jewish teenagers have been dashed by the decision to pull them out of the 2026 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Maccabi...
President Cyril Ramaphosa is the first sitting head of state to sign an international petition demanding that Israel release convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Ramaphosa chose Freedom...
JTA – Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett teamed up once before to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, striking an unusual power-sharing deal after Israel’s 2021...
