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Trigger warning: piece contains graphic scenes of sexual violence “You wouldn’t come out unscathed, or alive, if you went to Gaza dressed like that.” This comment...
Freed South African-born hostage Aviva Siegel ached at her mother-in-law’s funeral this week, mourning not only the loss of the family matriarch but the prolonged absence...
JTA – Eyal Golan sat at a table flanked by two citrus trees in his parents’ garden in the pastoral community of Porat, a makeshift office...
The former managing director of Yeshiva College, Rabbi Leron Bernstein, who now lives in Israel, was project director of One Day in October, a book about...
As antisemitism continues to run rampant in the streets of Europe and in communities around the United States, the groundbreaking new film, Tragic Awakening, gives viewers...
Photojournalist Ilan Ossendryver is launching his book, Israel After 7th Oct this week. The SA Jewish Report speaks to him. What inspired you to create this...
“We have enough faith to survive in any situation that will come to us,” freed Israeli hostage Moran Stella Yanai told South Africans at a talk...
Once the first few waves of shock and nausea had passed, I began receiving messages that read, “Thank G-d you weren’t there!” Though I’m far from...
The sight of Jews gathering in song while a large crowd of aggressive anti-Israel activists swore at them, tore down their posters, and threatened them is...
The verse “a time to be born and a time to die” in Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), which speaks of there being a time and season for everything,...
Born in Israel and raised in South Africa before returning to live in the Jewish state, clinical psychologist Lihie Gilhar says that in the wake of...
“It’s hard to think that in one devastating day, our lives were changed so dramatically,” says Lotus Lahav (22). Both she and her mother, Irit Lahav...
Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel’s first president, was once asked why Jews insisted on settling in Palestine when there were so many other countries...
A beautiful bougainvillea is in full bloom. Its purple leaves bring a burst of colour. Behind the vibrant bush, a house has been decimated, scorch marks...
It’s uncanny how 7 October 2023 changed the world in much the same manner as 6 October 1973. The parallels and congruencies between these cataclysmic events...
What started as a violent conflict between Israel and Hamas in the south of Israel on 7 October 2023 has now evolved into a war on...
Soon after 7 October, SA Jewish Report photographer Ilan Ossendryver spent time in Israel, capturing the pain of the massacre and how Israelis kept going. He...
Every Israeli clearly remembers where they were on 7 October 2023. I was at home in Tel Aviv watching television, and saw a conversation between a...
One year after the atrocities on 7 October, Grade 10 and 11 students at King David Linksfield and Victory Park joined forces to create an exhibition...
As a people, we’re still haunted by the images of what happened on 7 October, “when the gates of hell opened, and Hamas terrorists unleashed a...
“No-one could imagine a 7 October. The magnitude of what happened that day was entirely new and unprecedented. We didn’t have the resources. We listened to...
Every day is tough for the ex-South African parents of slain Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Yaron Chitiz, 23, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in...
A well-known Johannesburg rebbetzin confided that she harboured a “sort of crush” on British political commentator Douglas Murray, and secretly wished she had invited him for...
City of Johannesburg officials have ordered a Jewish family to remove the yellow ribbons tied around a tree outside their home, a symbol of solidarity with...
“If I had an inkling of what was to come, I would never have let him go that day.” These are the words of Israeli police...
A freed hostage from Gaza and the man who moved mountains to try track her down during her captivity have both experienced a life-changing, faith restoring...
The agony of a mother whose daughter she believes has been trapped in a suffocating tunnel in Gaza for nearly a year, petrified and starving in...
There was already a spike in antisemitism on 7 October, long before the Israeli military went into Gaza, said international antisemitism expert Dr David Hirsh at...
South African-born Aviva Siegel is fighting with every fibre of her being to get her beloved husband, Keith, aged 65, released with the other 100 hostages...
On 7 October Aviva Siegel from Randfontein was kidnapped at gunpoint from Kibbutz Kfar Aza and taken hostage by Hamas to Gaza. Her husband Keith is...
With Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza dragging on relentlessly and no deal to free the hostages captured on 7 October within grasp, a kernel of...
“From a military perspective, this war is all about the tunnels. They are used for weapons manufacturing, storage, and they are used to manoeuvre. The golden...
Like Tisha B’Av, 7 October will be a day seared in the memory of Jews. It evokes memory of the Holocaust as the largest calamity to...
JTA – Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s mother looked almost as the world has gotten to know her when she took the podium at her son’s funeral in Jerusalem....
People marvel at Israel’s resilience. They think life just goes on for us. They see us going to work, to the beach, and to restaurants. Everything...
Hamas’s cold-blooded execution of six Israeli hostages after 331 days in captivity in Gaza’s underground terror tunnels have underscored the urgency of freeing the remaining 101...
Yotam Haim’s mother, Iris, was excited to go and watch him perform on 7 October, but by the time he was meant to perform, he had...
“Every one of us is going to die!” screamed Ariella Ruback (21) to her commanding officer, as she stared at the security cameras watching hundreds of...
A circle of yellow flags, symbolic of the hostages who remain captive in Gaza, greet you as you enter Kibbutz Nir Am – a painful reminder...
South African-born grandmother and former hostage, Channah Peri, has endured unimaginable torment for more than 10 months, a nightmare that began with the horrific events of...
