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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...
JTA – Alex Sinclair had no idea what would follow when he posted a picture of his mutilated kippah to Facebook on Thursday. Sinclair, who lives in central...
JTA – A record number of United States Senate Democrats voted on Wednesday to block the sales of certain weapons to Israel, marking a sharp rise in the...
What should have been a simple farewell for a group of olim leaving South Africa unfolded under the shadow of uncertainty, as the reality of life in Israel...
Life in Israel at the moment moves between tension and routine. Sirens interrupt the day; people pause, look around, and head to shelter if needed – and then,...
JTA – Germany, an early defender of Israel against allegations of “genocide” in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has pulled support as it faces its own...
An incident that unfolded on a remote Eastern Cape road four years ago came full circle this week when a South African police officer reached out to an...
Videos showing Tel Aviv flattened into a wasteland of collapsed buildings and burning streets are spreading rapidly online. And in some corners of the internet, people...
South African olah Kim Bash was sitting in her miklat (bomb shelter) in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday, 17 March when she heard a massive explosion. She thought a missile had...
As sirens interrupt life, young South Africans on programmes across Israel are having to navigate a reality few imagined when they arrived – and without their...
JTA – The man who attacked a Michigan synagogue on Thursday was the brother of a Hezbollah commander who oversaw efforts to shoot rockets into Israel...
