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South African Jews still wear kippot – but hide their Zionism

While violent antisemitism is rare, South Africa’s Jewish community says anti-Israel hostility, campus intimidation, and political rhetoric have created new pressures

Ronald Lamola, South African justice minister, is seen outside the International Criminal Court after his government filed an indictment against Israel in January 2024. Jewish South Africans say there is a huge gap between the actions of the government and how the community feels inside the country.Premium
ISRAELIS LIGHT candles the day after after two gunmen shot and killed people gathered on Australia's Bondi beach for the start of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, in Jerusalem on December 15, 2025.

Jerusalem memorial ceremony for Bondi Beach terror victims in tandem with ceremony in Sydney

 RETURNED HOSTAGE Aviva Siegel with Immigration and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer, whose soldier son was wounded in Gaza.

Grapevine February 23, 2024: More than 76 years of solidarity with the Zionist enterprise

NOT SITTING quietly: Dov Lipman.

Zionist movement umbrella ousts rabbi at the center of harassment dispute


Australian Jewish leaders support indictment of Ya’acov Litzman

Police recommendation seen as “positive step” in “frustratingly long” process.

Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman at the Knesset August 8, 2018

Aussie Zionist leader: Likely election of Labor gov’t will pose challenges

President of the Zionist Federation of Australia, Jeremy Leibler, said that the challenges facing Israel under a Labor government will center around three major issues.

Picture of Jeremy Leibler, president of the Zionist Federation of Australia

Telfed celebrates 70th anniversary with Israel

President Reuven Rivlin meets delegation of South African volunteers and professionals, part of the “fifth tribe” of Diaspora Jewry.

President Reuven Rivlin with members of the Telfed deleqation. Rivlin is flanked by Telfed Chairwoman Batya Shmukler and former Telfed chairman Hertzel Katz.

Reform movement affirms its zionist core

Real issues divide the world’s two largest Jewish communities: religious pluralism, preserving Israel’s Jewish democratic core and working toward two states for two peoples.

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The Israel-Diaspora divide: The abandonment of Zionism

The Jerusalem Post

Middle Israel: The conflict at 70: An appraisal

Less festive, but no less meaningful, will be this week’s other birthday – the Arab-Israeli conflict’s.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) during their meeting as part of an effort to revive the Middle East peace process ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017 in this handout picture courtesy

The Colonel and the King: UN Resolution 2335?

The Jerusalem Post

Boosting Zionist education – within Israel

Im Tirtzu runs program to counter "anti-Israel bias" on country’s university campuses.

STUDENTS AT Ben-Gurion University of the Negev participate in a recent extra-curricular program in Zionist thought run by the Im Tirtzu NGO

Know Comment: The Left’s sour lament

Israel is not suffering from cultural retardation or democratic deficit.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu trying to take a shuk stroll through Mahane Yehuda market on March 9, 2015

Jewish Agency looks to boost numbers of campus emissaries

Using social networks and targeting university students, the Agency said that it recently identified the academy as a “central front” in the battle to distance young Jews from the state of Israel.

Natan Sharansky