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Listen to Amit's interview with Israeli tour guide Effi Yaacobi. The experienced tour guide is now out of work as there are no tourists in Israel, but he invites you to a virtual tour of Israel. (Interview in English) 

Did your parents follow you to Australia? We spoke to a retired concert music & renown musician, Misha Ferdman to find out how he and his wife Anna are coping with immigration to Australian and with Covid-19 especially at the autumn of their lives...Find out how music can help surviving Covid-19...

SBS News in Hebrew 12.7.2020

Doctors in countries with a growing number of recovering COVID-19 patients say those who've suffered are needing treatment even after they are discharged.... 

The World Health Organisation reports that four out of five COVID-19 cases are mild or asymptomatic.

But it's becoming clear that that doesn't mean there can't be further complications further down the track.

Virologists say it appears that even “mild” cases can be more complicated than many first thought.

Peta Jones Pellach with SBS Jerusalem Report in English........

There has been 354 deaths from Covid-19 in Israel and new infections are rising by hundreds each day, Jerusalem report 12.7.2020

Alex Dafner reports: The Victorian Education Department is investigating serious accusations of antisemitic attacks and discrimination by students and teachers, allegedly perpetrated against two Jewish brothers at a Victorian Secondary College.

A number of Jewish institutions and organizations in Sydney will be the beneficiaries of a $5 million grant to upgrade their security infrastructure, as part of the Federal Governments fifth round of their Safer Communities Funding.

As was expected, the lawyers for Malka Leifer, the former principal of the Melbourne Adass-Israel School charged with multiple sexual offences against students at the school, before she fled to Israel in 2008, have filed an appeal with Israel’s high court against the ruling that she is mentally fit to be extradited to stand trial in Australia.

1st July a few days ago was the day that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annex parts of the West Bank

The PM was under pressure from political parties and settlers’ groups to extend Israel’s Sovereignty over as much as 30% of the West Bank.

Dr Eyal Mayroz from the University of Sydney, Peace and conflict Studies, is a former Israeli counter terrorism intelligence specialist.

We asked him about Netanyahu’s motives, the reaction of the Palestinians, the American perspectives as well as the reaction of the government, here in Australia.

Shane Desiatnik AJN speaks to Nitza Lowenstein about the Australian Jewish community news...5.7.2020

1st July a few days ago was the day that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annex parts of the West Bank

The PM was under pressure from political parties and settlers’ groups to extend Israel’s Sovereignty over as much as 30% of the West Bank.

Dr Eyal Mayroz from the University of Sydney, Peace and conflict Studies, is a former Israeli counter terrorism intelligence specialist. We asked him about Netanyahu’s motives, the reaction of the Palestinians, the American perspectives as well as the reaction of the government, here in Australia.

SBS News in Hebrew 5.7.2020