A few weeks spent in Israel is like going on a rollercoaster of emotional ups and downs. From exhilaration to sorrow, from exasperation to a clarity o…
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Anti-Israel attack must be death knell for ICC
Recent events demonstrate how actions can have far-reaching geopolitical consequences beyond the actors’ expectations. Yahya Sinwar could not have for…
The Palestinians do not have an automatic right to statehood?
In the last few months of 2024, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted two Resolutions intended to speed up the establishment of a Palesti…
Was God Asleep on 7 October?
The Importance of Seeing the Big Picture We love to sing and pray the words of Psa…
G-d at Celebration of Hope
7 October 2023, one year ago, was a special Shabbat called Simcha Torah that celebrates the end of the annual Torah reading cycle. In Israel, I was re…
Middle East War – Is Biblical Prophecy Being Fulfilled?
Just over two months ago, at the beginning of October, the Jewish people began the year 5785 in the Hebrew calendar. By that time the State of Israel…
False Starts, Lamb Chops and Unwanted Stops
Prayer For Israel—Australia, in Israel September 2024 The days between the 16th-27…
Time to reform the United Nations
If you haven’t experienced the epic congestion of New York during United Nations week, count yourself lucky. If you have, you know the inverse correla…
Anzacs, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran – is there a connection?
Semach & Hezbollah rockets over the Galilee On 25 September 1918 the Australia…
Embassy News
Dear Friends, One year ago, on the 5th of October, I drove from Tel Aviv to Kibbut…
Stories of Faith
Following the brutal 1973 Yom Kippur war, Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau journeyed to New York to visit the Rabbi M. M. Schneerson obm…
It’s Death by a Thousand Cuts as Australia Abandons Persecuted Israel
As small children growing up in Melbourne, we remember lining up outside the huge display windows of the Myers department store at Christmas, wide-eye…