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Shoam Ben Harush, 20, had the world at his feet. He had one more year left of his compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces...
Hundreds of thousands have been displaced in Israel, many are dead and injured, and South Africans wonder how we can help. The SA Jewish Report has...
Johannesburg woke up last Friday, 27 October, to big red balloons waving across the Nelson Mandela Bridge, which links Braamfontein to Newtown, but it wasn’t a...
Few things could hit home the horror of the 240 hostages – mostly children, women, and the elderly – being held by Hamas in Gaza since...
I’ve attempted to refrain from commenting on the Hamas-Israeli conflict, and failed. As an older academic, I’ve learned to withhold my comments on fast-paced, ongoing developments...
Though Israel’s leadership is focused on winning a war and ensuring that Hamas isn’t able to threaten Israel again, it’s important to start considering what Israel’s...
In the battle for public opinion, us Jews do so much better when we are dead or dying, slaughtered, mutilated, beheaded, kidnapped, and humiliated. So, with...
I arrived in Israel in March, exhilarated to be in a country that not only was home to my children, but home to my heart. Realistically,...
We are a family of five who moved from Johannesburg to Israel in December 2020 due to uncertainty about the COVID-19 pandemic and the high crime...
When my husband and I moved down south to the young dati-leumi community of Carmei Gat, 20 minutes from Ashkelon, we were told repeatedly that there...
How do you put into words the atrocities we’ve witnessed as a nation, a people, a country over the past three weeks? There simply are no...
Right now, we are without doubt in the most fortunate position of anyone in the country, and certainly the broader region. Our relatively small coastal town...
We were winding down after a week’s vacation in Berlin over Sukkot, returning on Friday, 6 October, starting to get back into the work frame of...
Major Moran Etedgi and her two young children woke up in her home in Ofakim, a city in southern Israel, on Saturday, 7 October, to the...
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIOLENT DESCRIPTIONS The footage is beyond what the human mind can comprehend. The levels of depravity, barbarity, and sheer glee at the wholesale slaughter...
The conflict between Hamas and Israel has spilled onto the streets of South Africa and around the world. Events thousands of kilometres away have brought out...
The South African Cabinet is calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Israel for the crime of “genocide” following the bombing of a hospital...
Understandably, the South African Jewish population is absorbing the horrifying events in Israel on 7 October and the unresolved and unfinished consequences with great shock. Not...
War is hell. As a community, along with world Jewry, we’re in the eye of the storm between Israel and Hamas. It’s so difficult to navigate...
In the realm of trauma psychology, I’ve often witnessed the capacity of the indomitable human spirit to weather even the darkest storms. Today, I write not...
Saar Margolis, 37, was a hero who died doing what he was born to do – saving lives and protecting others. He’s one of two South...
“I feel like a refugee in my own country,” said ex-South African David Michalowsky, having fled for his life with his wife after spending more than...
In 2017, the African National Congress (ANC) infamously resolved to downgrade South Africa’s embassy in Israel to a “liaison office”. At the same time, Cyril Ramaphosa...
Hamas’ attack on Israel has prompted comparisons with past events, particularly with the 1973 Yom Kippur War. An equally compelling comparison could be made with a...
The prospect of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conquering and occupying the territory of Gaza is daunting. Urban warfare is a costly, messy business at best,...
On 11 October, a letter purporting to be from Hamas to South Africa, started spreading like wildfire on WhatsApp, four days after the murderous Hamas attack...
It was a wedding ceremony like no other, at a time like never before. For a moment, all pain and anguish were set aside as a...
Criticising the South African government and ruling African National Congress (ANC), a deeply betrayed head of the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) cried out last Sunday,...
On Monday evening, 16 October, Ponte was illuminated in blue and white with the Israeli flag. It was short lived, not much more than 10 minutes,...
South African olah Lili Kovler, who lives in Jerusalem, felt paralysed with fear and sadness when in the wake of the 7 October massacre, her Israeli...
South Africa urgently needs to re-examine its response to the Hamas atrocities against Israelis, said panellists in the SA Jewish Report webinar, “Slaughter of the Innocents:...
South African olim and their families are taking refuge in South Africa amid the turmoil of war. It’s a difficult choice as they’re grateful to have...
Reports from the frontline of the war! Join survivors of the massacre telling their harrowing stories of survival. Hear from Avi Mayer, the editor-in-chief of the...
Grandmother Marcelle Talia, 65, who was born and raised in the Free State, was mercilessly gunned down last Saturday by Hamas terrorists as she made her...
“We’re in a war that we didn’t choose to be in,” Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Eli Cohen told foreign media on Monday, 9 October. “We’ll continue...
More than 2 500 Jews descended on Yeshiva Mizrachi in Johannesburg on Monday, 9 October, at 18:00 to pray for the state of Israel after the...
The head of World Mizrachi, Rabbi Doron Perez, and his wife, Shelley, have endured agonising uncertainty this week, waiting endlessly for news of their son, believed...
On Tuesday night, 10 October, I went out to visit the home of an Israeli colleague in South Africa. Usually I don’t visit colleagues on a...
Many South Africans want to know how they can help Israel. Here’s what the SA Jewish Report has found. The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) has...
At this time of harrowing danger, let’s harness the spiritual power of lighting Shabbat candles to pray for Israel. For generations, Jewish women have prayed for...