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For South African olim, the war has been experienced not through headlines, but in reinforced rooms, hurried phone calls, and interrupted routines. In one central Israeli apartment...
JTA – Jacob Phillips’ first trip to Israel from his home in Germany was in 2023, to visit Holocaust survivors in Tel Aviv as part of...
JTA – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, was killed on Saturday morning during a joint US-Israeli strike that hit targets throughout the country. Israeli officials first announced the...
JTA – The United States and Israel jointly launched what US President Donald Trump called “a major military operation” in Iran on Saturday morning, ending weeks of speculation. ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa and the Government of the Republic of South Africa expresses deep concern regarding the escalation of tensions in the Middle East. These developments pose a...
“Thank you President Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, for taking a historic and courageous decision. “I fully support you and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Dear community, Over the past 12 hours, Israel and the US launched Operation Roar of the Lion (Great Fury), a preventative attack which included targeted strikes on various...
As Operation Lions Roar begins today, 28 February, we speak not only as members of the Iranian community in South Africa, but as sons and daughters of an...
On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a major joint military operation against Iran, commencing early this morning (Tehran time, corresponding to approximately 05:00 to 06:00 SAST). President...
Saturday, 28 February 2026 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) condemns in the strongest terms the provocative, illegal, and unjustified attacks on Iran, which have been conducted by...
Heading home after a peaceful walk on the beach near his home in Herzliya Pituach on Sunday, 6 July, South African expat David*(38) heard a small...
JTA – The late singer-songwriter Meir Ariel had a hit song that Israelis tend to invoke at times of crisis: “Avarnu et Par’o, na’avor gam et...
The guns have gone silent between Israel and Iran. But who really won? “When the hurly-burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won.” Our last JR...
When Israeli airspace suddenly shut down at the beginning of the Iran-Israel war on 13 June, hundreds of South Africans were stranded in a war zone...
It was like 7 October meets COVID-19. That’s how the “12 Day War”, otherwise known as Operation Am Kalavi played out. Another war, folded into the...
When Israel bombed Iranian sites in the early hours of Friday, 13 June, the international media coverage was, for a brief moment, sympathetic. Against the backdrop...
JTA – It was after 02:00 by the time I finally fell asleep after yet another siren sent us scrambling to the safe room in our...
When a ballistic missile exploded just metres from her Tel Aviv apartment in the early hours of Monday, 16 June, Cape Town-born Marissa Sarfatti thought it...
While Johannesburg customer service consultant Paula Shevel was trying to collect her thoughts about what it felt like to be stuck in Israel, an Iranian missile...
The title of the SA Jewish Report’s webinar, “Israel & Iran WTF!” on Monday, 16 June, proved apt when the live interview was abruptly cut short...
Being in Israel fortuitously during this war, SA Jewish Report photojournalist Ilan Ossendryver has taken photographs and is writing a daily diary for readers. Here are...
Ending wars is more challenging than initiating them. This is particularly true in the Middle East, where the fundamental reasons for the conflicts are often irreconcilable....
On 7 October 2023, Hamas launched a murderous attack in the vacuum an absent Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had left with the dismantling and disarming of...
If you want to see the best of Israel, go to the supermarket. In behaviour that some would say is out of character, it’s as Israeli...
JTA – The booms from the night’s Iranian missile strike could be felt across the region, including in my home in Jaffa. In that moment, it...
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog was deeply distressed at what he saw when went to visit some of the sites of the deadly Iranian missile strikes in...
