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Don't miss the only weekly report in the world in Yiddish with SBS Yiddish correspondent Alex Dafner. This week: Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg thanked the Jewish and general community for the support he received over the allegation of him having dual citizenship, due to his mothers Hungarian origin and inspite of her being listed as Stateless prior to coming to Australia, having had her Hungarian citizenship taken away from her during WWII. - Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull met with representatives of the Beersheba Dialogue group of Australian and Israeli strategists, analysts and defence experts and praised their work and achievements such as the recently signed memorandum of understanding for defence industry cooperation, which he signed with Israeli PM Netanyahu, and which established an annual strategic defence dialogue and launched two initiatives, an aviation cargo security initiative and protection of crowded places initiative and among other issues. - The Greens leader Senator Richard Di Natale criticised PM Turnbull over the Australian and Israeli defence MOU and asked whether PM Turnbull raised the concern over Israeli settlements with PM Netanyahu, which are in flagrant violation of international, and he was in turn criticised by the president of the ECAJ Anton Block over his selective and shortsighted views of the Israeli-Australian relationship. - The Labor Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews will visit Israel next month to develop the already strong relationships between that states and Israels research, commerce, cyber and medicine technology industries and meet with the Israeli Premier Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Labor Party Leader Avi Gabbay. Anns of Jewish and Other Events: Santas Story a remarkable tale of one womans Holocaust survival with Yiddish songs, presented by leading international Sth African opera star Aviva Pelham, 15 & 16th Nov, 2017 at 7.30PM at the Phoenix Theatre. Glen Huntly Rd Elwood, Tickets via: Trybooking.com

Don't miss the only weekly report in the world in Yiddish with SBS Yiddish correspondent Alex Dafner. This week: Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg thanked the Jewish and general community for the support he received over the allegation of him having dual citizenship, due to his mothers Hungarian origin and inspite of her being listed as Stateless prior to coming to Australia, having had her Hungarian citizenship taken away from her during WWII. - Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull met with representatives of the Beersheba Dialogue group of Australian and Israeli strategists, analysts and defence experts and praised their work and achievements such as the recently signed memorandum of understanding for defence industry cooperation, which he signed with Israeli PM Netanyahu, and which established an annual strategic defence dialogue and launched two initiatives, an aviation cargo security initiative and protection of crowded places initiative and among other issues. - The Greens leader Senator Richard Di Natale criticised PM Turnbull over the Australian and Israeli defence MOU and asked whether PM Turnbull raised the concern over Israeli settlements with PM Netanyahu, which are in flagrant violation of international, and he was in turn criticised by the president of the ECAJ Anton Block over his selective and shortsighted views of the Israeli-Australian relationship. - The Labor Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews will visit Israel next month to develop the already strong relationships between that states and Israels research, commerce, cyber and medicine technology industries and meet with the Israeli Premier Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Labor Party Leader Avi Gabbay. Anns of Jewish and Other Events: Santas Story a remarkable tale of one womans Holocaust survival with Yiddish songs, presented by leading international Sth African opera star Aviva Pelham, 15 & 16th Nov, 2017 at 7.30PM at the Phoenix Theatre. Glen Huntly Rd Elwood, Tickets via: Trybooking.com

Don't miss our unique SBS weekly chat with AJN journalist Evan Zlatkis about the latest in the Jewish community in Australia...Find out about Shalom Bollywood...

Don't miss our unique SBS weekly chat with AJN journalist Evan Zlatkis about the latest in the Jewish community in Australia...Find out about Shalom Bollywood...

If you didn't manage to get to Tel Aviv last night, well, our correspondent Prof Rafi Mann did! Rafi reports from us from Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv with the latest news from Isael...

If you would like to find out the latest from Israel, listen to SBS Jerusalem Correspondent, Peta Jones Pellach

I really enjoyed talking to Ian Groden from Sydney, who calls Israel home for 6 months of the year...Ian would not miss the ceremonies in Beersheba as he booked his attendance a year ago...Ian talks about the centenary of the Beersheba victorious battle and the Balfour declaration.

Find out the latest in the Jewish community around Australia and the Jewish world with Evan Zlatkis...Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Government and Opposition representatives, military, diplomatic, community, business and other dignitaries attended the centenary celebration and commemoration of the victorious charge of the 4th and 10th ANZACs light horse regiments, including a re-enactment of the charge, which was staged In Israel in Beersheba on the 31st of October 2017. - The Australian and Israeli leaders also opened an impressive new ANZACs museum at Beersheva, with state of the art multimedia displays and texts which tell stories of the Australian soldiers and PM Turnbull and his wife Lucy made an emotional visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Government and Opposition representatives, military, diplomatic, community, business and other dignitaries attended the centenary celebration and commemoration of the victorious charge of the 4th and 10th ANZACs light horse regiments, including a re-enactment of the charge, which was staged In Israel in Beersheba on the 31st of October 2017. - The Australian and Israeli leaders also opened an impressive new ANZACs museum at Beersheva, with state of the art multimedia displays and texts which tell stories of the Australian soldiers and PM Turnbull and his wife Lucy made an emotional visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. - PM Turnbull also met with Israeli Pres Rivlin and PM Netanyahu and signed a memorandum of understanding for defence industry cooperation, established and annual strategic defence dialogue and launched two initiatives, an aviation cargo security initiative and protection of crowded places initiative and among other issues discussed the extradition of Malka Leifer, the former Addass Israel principal facing 74 charges of sexual abuse in Melbourne. - PM Turnbull also met with Palestinian Authority leaders, who complained about not being invited by the Australian Government to the Beersheba Centenary Commemorations and they told him about the travel restrictions and hardships under the Israeli occupation on the West Bank. - The Labor Opposition leader Bill Shorten met with the Israeli Labour Party leaders, whilst in Israel and addressed Australian business and community leaders there praising the Australian Jewish community and the Holocaust survivor generation in particular for their contribution to education, philanthropy, commerce. He also paid a confronting visit to the Aida Refugee Camp near Bethlehem where a 9 year old girl told him she would like the tear gas attacks to stop, and which the UN says have occurred 98 times this year. - Prof Paul Zimmet has been named Senior Victorian of the Year for 2017, in recognition of his forty years of work in diabetes disease research. 

Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg was the latest federal politician suspected of holding dual citizenship, following an article in the Australian newspaper citing his mother’s Hungarian origin, and inspite of her being Stateless prior to coming to Australia, having lost her Hungarian citizenship during WWII.

After 25 years in Israel, Rachelle Gossat, a former Australian is proud to be Israeli and Australian...she attended the ceremonies and described to us the moment... (Hebrew)