Shane Desiatnik with the latest news from the Australian Jewish community:

$2.5m Federal Government grant for the expansion of the Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre, was warmly greeted by the Adelaide Jewish community, politicians, educators and especially the 88-year-old Adelaide Holocaust survivor from Budapest and renown sculptor Andrew Steiner OAM.

Mark Regev, the former Melbourne Mt Scopus College and University graduate and current spokesman for the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, held a webinar with Australian Jews, in which he expressed his excitement over the recent agreements with the Arab Gulf States of UAE and Bahrain and predicted a bright future for Israeli-Arab relations and for Israel’s further burgeoning development, after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.