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Peta Jones Pellach reports on lack of progress towards a new government and a barrage of rockets from Gaza.3.10.19

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin announced to a high profile Australian delegation, which included former Liberal PM John Howard, former Labor Treasurer Wayne Swan, former Liberal Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, former Liberal Defence Minister Brendan Nelson and former Labor Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, as well as Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Liebler, that he will be coming to Australia next year. 

- The high level Australian delegation of former ministers and local Jewish leaders, met with Israel’s Prime Ministers in waiting Benyomin Netanyahu and Beni Gantz, explored topics such as Israel’s high-tech and Space Agency with experts in the field, addressed Jewish world leaders at the Jewish Agency conference and attended several other high level meetings and functions in the Jewish State.

- Her lawyers and Malka Leifer, the former principal of the ultra-Orthodox Israel Addass school in Melbourne, who is currently awaiting a ruling by a court in Israel on whether she is fit to be extradited to Australia to stand trial on 74 alleged charges of sexual abuse of students, have refused to cooperate with a panel of psychiatrists convened by the court to assess her psychological fitness to be extradited.

- The Israeli embassy in Canberra has temporarily closed its doors and halted its services due to a dispute between the Israeli Ministry of Finances and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs…

Anns: An event coming up for those whose Yiddish is not existent or not so good…

MIT A YIDDISHN TAM TSVEY - A SECOND TASTE OF YIDDISH - Sunday 10th November, 11am-3pm at the Kadimah.  This Yiddish Tog/Day returns with a program including a return of pickling cucumbers with Michael Gawenda, learning and singing Yiddish songs with Karen Feldman and Adam Starr, a beginners’ Yiddish class, a workshop for Sholem Aleichem College parents to match their kids’ Yiddish vocabs, cooking, craft and drama.  The price includes kosher lunch.  Go to Trybooking and type in “Mit A Yiddishn” and book yourself a spot asap…

Dalit Kimor film maker talks about  legendary Gottex empire & founder Mrs.G  Lea Gottlieb English interview

Ofir Trainin, Film maker talks about his special film, Family in Transition. This is a true story, a documentary about a family in Nahariya.  Amit, married and father of four children tells his wife Galit that he is a woman and wants to transition. Galit pledges her support. Ofir followed the family for 3 years and documents the transition and the impact on the family. Winner Best Israeli Documentary 2018 interview in Hebrew

Shane Desiatnik:"the Israeli Embassy in Canberra is on strike" 3.11.2019

Peta Jones Pellach reports on Benny Gantz's mandate to form a government and Israeli success at Kick-boxing 27.10.2019

 Prof. Mona Khoury-Kassabri is the Dean of the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She also is the Head of the University’s Steering Committee for Accessibility to Higher Education among Arab Students.  Nitza spoke to her about her life, her career and about cyber bulling. Our interview today is in English

The Jewish international film festival opened this week and my guest today from Tel Aviv is Dalit Kimor, director of the Israeli movie, Mrs G. The film tells the story of Mrs. Lea Gottlieb, the legendary designer, founder and owner of the Gottex swimwear empire.
Lea Gottlieb, from surviving the Holocaust and establishing a small factory in Israel, to her phenomenal success abroad.

Alex Dafner is back in Melbourne reporting to us:" Two of the alleged victims of Malka Leifer met the PM" 27.10.2019

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Evan Zlatkis: anti-Semitic incidents in NSW Schools increased dramatically 27.10.2019