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Losing a child to violence devastates the parents left behind. It creates an unspeakable emptiness, a void of loss, pain, and anger. Two bereaved Israeli and...
(JTA) Whether this week marks the last of Benjamin Netanyahu’s record-setting tenure as prime minister or is just a prelude to another never-count-him-out comeback, it seems...
Parents who have lost children in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict talk forgiveness and reconciliation. Robi Damelin made aliyah from South Africa in 1967. A Palestinian sniper’s bullet...
(JTA) As Benjamin Netanyahu makes a last-ditch attempt to stay in power, even with a rival coalition set to take office, American journalists and scholars are...
“Living on the Gaza border is 95% heaven, and 5% hell,” said Adele Raemer. She’s made it her mission to tell the world what life is...
Israel’s new president-elect, Isaac Herzog, is a great friend of South African Jewry and has been determined to mend ties between the South African and Israeli...
“I heard the boom, and then the pressure came, and that was it. I was out,” is how former Kaizer Chiefs striker, Ibezito Ogbonna, remembers the...
When Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, I remember some people being so flummoxed that they said anyone could now run for the...
Pretoria teacher Sudesh Mooloo’s family member says he fears for his safety and that of his family after he expressed support for Israel and took a...
Everyone is relieved that the guns have fallen silent – for now – in the worst Palestinian-Israeli clashes since 2014. The South African government hasn’t minced...
Frans Cronje, the chief executive of the Institute of Race Relations, wrote a penetrating critique – “Ramaphosa woefully misreading the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”, News24, 20 May –...
A YouTube channel detailing the facts behind the conflict in Israel is going viral for its assertive unpacking of the context behind the headlines. However, the...
The recent Israel-Palestine outburst of violence was in many ways a media and public-relations war: a battle for the global, regional, and local support which is...
It’s just gone 03:00 in the morning on Wednesday, 12 May. I’m hunkering down in a bomb shelter which doubles up as my study in Tel...
As Israel faced a steady bombardment of deadly rockets fired by terrorist groups in Gaza this week, the South African government, politicians, and activists condemned the...
As rockets rained down on most of Israel from Monday to Wednesday this week, many South African olim hunkered down in safe rooms, bomb shelters, and...
South African Jews and their relatives in Israel are battling yet another travel ban implemented by Israel at the beginning of May, which forbids travel to...
Toxic politics doesn’t always torpedo good ideas. In spite of the well-known tension between the South African and Israeli governments over the Palestinian conflict, Israel’s world-leading...
Yohanatan Hevroni was so excited about going to Mount Meron for Lag B’Omer after not having been there for seven years, he arranged a bus for...
On Monday, Israel implemented a ban on its citizens travelling to South Africa, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and Turkey amidst fears of COVID-19 variants. But...
Minister of State Security Ayanda Dlodlo said South Africa was ready to deal with any security threat, and wouldn’t remain neutral in the face of potential...
As a miracle nation, time and time again Israel has pulled the blue-and-white rabbit out of the hat, offering innovation and pride to Jewish communities around...
Zan Swartzberg from Bethlehem in the Free State was one of 800 South African Machal volunteers who heeded Israel’s call for help after it was surrounded...
(JTA) Academy Award winner Helen Mirren will portray Golda Meir, Israel’s only female prime minister, in an upcoming biopic set during the Yom Kippur War. Production...
An Israeli company is assisting local government authorities to transform toxic water to healthy drinking water in what could be a game-changer for South Africa as...
“Citizens of Israel – thank you!” wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Hebrew on Twitter shortly after Israeli polls closed on Tuesday night, 23 March....
The success of Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine programme may seem like a far-away reality, but it’s actually much closer to home – over the border in fact....
Mike Shingange, the first deputy president of the National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU), lambasted Israel for “war crimes and violation of international law”...
Like a partially-digested falafel ball, elections are repeating on the Israeli public, which, on 23 March, heads to the polls for the fourth time in two...
Taxi drivers in Israel are the best political barometer. A friend shared on Twitter a chat he had on a ride a week ago, when the...
English-Jewish actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was asked by an Israeli television outlet if he knew Israel was headed for another election. His reply summed up the...
Three former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa have put their names and faces to an online campaign supporting left-wing Israeli political party Meretz. Circulated via Facebook...
It’s not often a young black man and former supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in South Africa stands up for Israel in the...
Fifty-two years ago this week, student and Israeli army paratrooper Edward “Eddie” Joffe, who had recently made aliyah with his family from South Africa, was senselessly...
Walking down the alleyways of Jerusalem’s Old City, the Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Armenian Quarters are so quiet, you can actually hear your own prayers. You...
The recent decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to allow an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Israel isn’t a surprise. But that doesn’t...
Zimbabwe and Israel have had full diplomatic relations since 1993, but further overtures by our northern neighbour to the Jewish state could cause conflict with South...
At 07:00 on Wednesday morning, 96-year-old Shulamit Klein passed away alone in hospital in Akko, Israel, with no visitors allowed and her care worker in quarantine....
Israel is reporting promising initial results from its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the fastest in the world. The first official findings released by the health ministry show...
Israelis are being allowed out of their homes in full lockdown to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi), who is viewed by...
