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Overtaking the headlines on 8 April, which stated that Israel had pulled all its ground troops out of southern Gaza for “tactical reasons”, was the report...
As Pesach approaches, our minds and hearts are flooded with a range of conflicting emotions. The date 7 October was the darkest day in modern Jewish...
On 6 October 2023, the relationship between diaspora Jewry and Israel was quite fragile. As I travelled to communities around the world and hosted delegations in...
Local Israel-hating extremist groups have called on the South African justice ministry to probe “the activities of groups such as the Israel Centre, Jewish Agency for...
We live in challenging times. This week marks six months since the start of the Israel-Gaza war. The news is incessantly miserable and depressing, and each...
It has been six months since 7 October, and life for olim evacuated from their homes is far from normal. There are 104 ex-South African families...
I cry every day, and I’m not the only one. The tears are for the trauma we’ve endured, for those we lost, for those who remain...
On 25 March, the United States (US) abstained from and declined to exercise its veto power against a United Nations Security Council Resolution which explicitly called...
“I have to run, but it’s towards bullets because now they’re everywhere. You just see people falling down, you’re a statistic, you take one step to...
The recently reported death of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Daniel Perez is an individual and collective tragedy. It’s also the latest example of Hamas’s deception...
Since ancient times, the Jewish people have witnessed tragic and unnecessary loss of life due to violence and combat. The very first story in the book...
“We choose to live,” Michal Uziyahu from the Eshkol Regional Council, told our group in the south of Israel witnessing the horrors of 7 October. I...
Four years ago, the world shifted. Beginning in March 2020, humanity suffered a worldwide pandemic which took close to seven million lives. The COVID-19 outbreak upended...
As many commentators predicted, the war in Gaza is reaching an inflection point, with the Israeli leadership having to make some difficult decisions, each of which...
Fourteen years ago, I walked into the memorial for the Treblinka death camp in Poland. The memorial has stones scattered around a massive field that was...
Kibbutz Nir Oz resident and South African olah, Yael Marcus (34), is grieving for kibbutznik friends killed or abducted on 7 October, but she was saved...
“Lay on the ground, hands on your head!” These are the words heard by Supernova (Nova) Music Festival attendees who, at 06:30 as sirens sounded, had...
Rafael Elias Mosheyoff, one of the 21 soldiers tragically killed in Gaza on 23 January, had the world at his feet after a disadvantaged upbringing because...
The mayor of Rishon LeZion, Raz Kinstlich, made a big show on Sunday, 28 January, of taking down the South African flag in the city’s Garden...
Hostile nations have surrounded Israel ever since 1948. Military scientists have coined a term to describe the condition in which nations or armies find themselves surrounded:...
Amid reports of reinforcements being sent to the northern border, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Company Leader Roy Rizel, 31, who oversees three platoons in the Golani...
With the proliferation of jewellery featuring Jewish symbols, Hebrew slogans, and the words “Bring Them Home” in reference to the hostages, it’s clear that fashion accessories...
To understand the security situation and strategic issues on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, one must understand three preliminary issues that frame this potential conflict: The...
JTA – Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip in two separate incidents on Monday, 22 January, marking the deadliest day for Israel since...
Lieutenant Yaron Chitiz, 23, had the best weekend of his life when he surprised his mother, girlfriend, and friends on the Shabbos before he was shot...
Freed South African-born hostage Aviva Siegel wakes every day tormented by thoughts of her husband of 40 years who is still incarcerated in Gaza. The past...
Unsurprisingly, Israel has come in for a hammering at the strategic level of its war against Hamas. Previous articles alluded to the inevitability of a negative...
“Death has ascended our windows and entered our homes. It has taken children from our roads and youth from our streets.” (Jeremiah, chapter 9) Last week,...
Back in 2004, I recall watching an interview with a young woman at a protest against the war the United States and its allies were waging...
JTA – For Jews who weren’t directly ensnared in the violence and terror of 7 October, the days that followed were characterised by rapidly changing numbers....
Israel doesn’t exist because of the Holocaust, but the Holocaust wouldn’t have happened had Israel existed. Her existence ensures Jews, both in Israel and in the...
I was shocked by the silence that greeted the callous execution of two young Tanzanians by Hamas. Both were kidnapped when Hamas started a war on...
You would think that a country that had experienced the horrors of apartheid like South Africa has would be a little bit more knowledgeable about what...
JTA – After 7 October, Michael Kahana joined hundreds of his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in signing an open letter condemning Hamas and expressing...
JTA – Daniel Ozeri found himself returning to the worst moments of his life on a recent Sunday, not inside his own mind, but inside a...
JTA – Fifteen young men and women, seemingly oblivious to their surroundings and to each other, dance around a bucolic field, twisting their bodies to trance...
The hospital where South African olah Dr Gila Nussbaum works in Israel was the first place emergency services brought the injured from the Supernova Music Festival...
“Every country in the world faced with a situation [like the 7 October attacks] would have done exactly what the Israelis did, except maybe not as...
Israel is heading towards day 60 of its protracted war in Gaza. Realpolitik temporarily halted the relentless ground and air campaign, which allowed for a trickle...
From ballads to biltong, olim are working to uplift soldiers fighting to protect Israel. Not only are they giving soldiers a spiritual and physical boost, they’re...