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A 33-year-old woman was recently arrested at a mall in Herzliya in Israel after attacking a security guard with an axe. Appearing barefoot, laughing, and covered...
Brothers Keith and Brett Isaacson, born in Klerksdorp, are real-life modern-day action heroes, reminiscent of characters from the Israeli television series Fauda. On 7 October, amidst...
“I remember checking my phone at 11:00 on 7 October to find 54 unread messages from my closest friends and family in Israel,” recalls Michalya Schonwald...
The temperature is rising in Israel. Peak summer brings soaring temperatures, uncomfortable humidity, and as has become a regular occurrence on a Saturday night, protests across...
Facebook’s former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, says she was determined to make it clear that “rape isn’t resistance” in her documentary Screams Before Silence. It’s...
Being at the site of the Nova festival is nothing short of heartbreaking. Every step you take, you are walking on land on which young people...
“Many people compare 7 October to the Holocaust, but in fact, that day launched Israel’s second War of Independence, and so much is riding on what...
It felt strange being almost the only tourists in Tzfat in the north of Israel in the middle of June, but I wasn’t expecting to be...
Walking towards the place in Tel Aviv that has become known as Hostage Square on Saturday night, 22 June, I had a sinking feeling. Throngs of...
Warning: Graphic content “The sexual abuse that occurred on 7 October wasn’t made up of isolated incidents or sporadic cases but was rather a clear operational...
Driven by Iran, the Middle East is in flames. Few people understand the conflict as well as Col. Miri Eisin, managing director of the International Institute...
Eight months ago, a 21-year-old South African and her Israeli boyfriend were just two young lovers cherishing their time together in serene Be’eri, a co-operative kibbutz...
South African-born Ralph Lewinsohn, his wife, Barbara, and their family survived the hell that befell their beloved home on Kfar Aza on 7 October 2023, when...
When 63-year-old Kyalami resident Penny Van A heard about the massacre in the south of Israel on 7 October, she felt compelled to go and help....
South African-born Israeli Joey Avinir, 26, had been looking forward to going to the Nova Festival on 6 October. Like thousands of others, it was the...
When one of her Hamas captors told Sapir Cohen that when Jews are together, they are very strong, she was shocked, but came to the realisation...
South African born grandmother and former Hamas hostage Channah Peri clings to hope that her son, Nadav Popplewell, is still alive, in spite of Hamas declaring...
Freed hostage Aviva Siegel has chosen not to watch the Hamas propaganda video of her beloved husband, Keith, whom she was forced to leave behind in...
The Israeli city of Karmiel is in mourning following the tragic death of Ido Aviv, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservist killed in an explosion while...
The Hostage Negotiator: Gershon Baskin – the man who negotiated for Gilad Shalit’s release In July 2006, days after Israeli solider Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by...
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...
The SA Jewish Report is delighted to present world famous political commentator, journalist, and author Douglas Murray live in conversation with South Africa. Appearing regularly on...
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...
