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Weeks after tragic attack, Australian educators visit Israel for KKL-JNF seminar

Coming just weeks after the deadly Bondi Beach, the visit was of significant importance to the attendees.

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER
Australian educators visit Israel as part of a KKL-JNF visit, weeks after the Bondi Beach terror attack, January 2026.
South African Jews, aged 60 and over, recently arrived via a Jewish Agency aliyah project, meet at Telfed - South African Zionist Federation in Raanana.

Homeward bound: Why South African Jews are making aliyah to Israel now - opinion

Recently, the Jewish Agency introduced an aliyah project aimed specifically at South African couples aged 60+ with family already in Israel, who cannot afford to purchase a home here.

|ByBRENDA KATTEN
Graphic novel ‘Between the River and the Sea’ by Hillel Cohen.

Jerusalem highlights: January 16-22

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

|ByHAGAY HACOHEN
South Africa's Minister Sport, Arts, and Culture Gayton McKenzie during a press conference on June 18, 2025.

‘Foreign power’ attempted to use South Africa art entry as ‘proxy’ against Israel

South African Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie cancelled a working agreement with Art Periodic, citing concerns that the installation was intended to promote a message about the Israel-Hamas War.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

BRICS is no friend of Israel amid Putin's strategic vision - opinion

Putin himself has a nuanced attitude toward Israel – a position that could be affected by the result of the forthcoming US presidential election. 

NOVEMBER 4, 2024ByNEVILLE TELLER
IRANIAN PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian attends a meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia last month. Given the inclusion of Iran and South Africa in its membership, the viscerally anti-Israel stance that the union has adopted is perhaps not surprising, says the writer.

Public relations genocide: How anti-Israel campaigns aim to isolate and defame - opinion

Anti-Israel campaigns target the Jewish state’s reputation, using media and boycotts to isolate and label Israel, creating a 'public relations genocide' against it.

NOVEMBER 1, 2024ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN
A PROTESTER draped in a Palestinian flag holds up a sign near the International Court of Justice in The Hague, in May. Taken all the way to the ICJ, the defamation accusation against Israel fell flat when no one could effectively or credibly prosecute the case for such an outlandish assertion

South Africa submits evidence of alleged Israeli genocide in Gaza to ICJ

According to the announcement, the Memorial claims that Israel has violated the genocide convention by promoting the destruction of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

OCTOBER 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Judges at the ICJ hear a request for emergency measures by South Africa, who asked the court to order Israel to stop its military actions in Gaza, in The Hague, Netherlands, january 11, 2024.

'The country it loathes most': South Africa's struggle to find evidence against Israel - opinion

Rather than a harbinger of global justice, the ANC, since assuming office in 1994, has become an enabler of genocide.

OCTOBER 25, 2024ByIAN LLOYD NEUBAUER
SOUTH AFRICAN officials listen as the International Court of Justice rules, following South African accusations that the Israeli military operation in Gaza is a state-led genocide, in The Hague, in January.

October 7 Square: A place of mourning and defiance for South African Jewry - opinion

South African Jews created October 7 Square, offering a space to mourn and challenge harmful narratives amid rising hostility.

OCTOBER 13, 2024ByWENDY KAHN
THOUSANDS OF people visited October 7 Square in Johannesburg and reflected on the exhibits over the course of the three days, says the writer.

UN’s anti-Israel majority: Misinformation and hypocrisy reign at the General Assembly - opinion

Amid rampant anti-Israel rhetoric and misinformation, the UN General Assembly’s built-in majority continues to drown out Israel’s voice and distort the truth.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024ByNEVILLE TELLER
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly, last Friday. As powerful as it was, the speech fell largely on deaf ears, the writer maintains.

Johannesburg to rename street after socialist Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled

Khaled, 79, rose to prominence following her successful hijacking of one plane in 1969 and her failed hijacking of a second plane in 1970.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024ByMATHILDA HELLER
Leila Khaled, guarded by a Palestinian policeman (L), reaches for the hand of a supporter after crossing the Allenby Bridge April 18 1996

President Cyril Ramaphosa: 'We South Africans know what apartheid looks like'

"The violence the Palestinian people are being subjected to is a grim continuation of more than half a century of apartheid that has been perpetrated against Palestinians by Israel," Ramaphosa said.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024ByHANNAH SARISOHN
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the 79th United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York. September 24, 2024.

The BRICS Challenge and the US Response: A New Era of Gold

As BRICS nations challenge US dollar dominance, the world faces a crossroads. Gold, once again, emerges as a potential savior. Will the US embrace this precious metal to maintain its influence?

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024ByPR
The BRICS Challenge and the US Response: A New Era of Gold

The truth doesn’t interest the UN, ICC, and ICJ when it comes to Israel - opinion

When it comes to Israel, neither the UN, the ICC, nor the ICJ are concerned with truth or justice.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024ByDAVID BEN-BASAT
THEN-ISRAELI AMBASSADOR to the UN Gilad Erdan uses a paper shredder to tear apart a copy of the UN Charter, as a protest against a General Assembly vote on recognizing the Palestinians as qualified to becoming full UN members, in May.