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Iranian cyberattacks on Israel are unsophisticated, but remain a constant and serious nuisance

April 12, 2022 | Oved Lobel

Iran continues to demonstrate that, while it lags far behind other adversaries like Russia, China and North Korea in cyberspace, it still has the capacity to be a major nuisance in this sphere.

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Terror wave reaches Tel Aviv

April 8, 2022 | Ahron Shapiro

The number of Israelis killed in the latest terror wave has increased to 13 after a shooting attack outside a pub in central Tel Aviv on Thursday night (April 7) claimed two lives.

Yamina MK Idit Silman has precipitated a coalition crisis. Photo: Wikipedia

Israel’s ruling coalition has lost its majority. Now what?

April 6, 2022 | Ahron Shapiro

The surprise announcement on Wednesday morning, April 6, in Israel by Coalition Leader Idit Silman of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s…

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Election campaign marred by swastikas, as MPs in various states consider ban

April 5, 2022 | Naomi Levin

An unfortunate trend that emerged during the 2019 federal election campaign seems set to remain a regrettable hallmark of the 2022 federal election campaign.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett receives a briefing from police in Hadera on March 27. Credit: Kobi Gideon, GPO

Israel faces new terror wave and considers how to respond

March 31, 2022 | Ahron Shapiro, Oved Lobel

Within the span of one week, the Islamic State (IS) claimed two attacks inside Israel, the deadliest inside the Green Line since June 2016, when Palestinian terrorists inspired by IS conducted a so-called “lone wolf” mass shooting in Tel Aviv.

Swastikas graffitied in Bondi in 2019 (Photo: courtesy of ECAJ)

Labor, Greens MPs denounce action on antisemitism in NSW

March 30, 2022 | Naomi Levin

Regrettably, there are some Labor and Greens MPs who continue to spread the false claim that the IHRA definition will silence those who wish to criticise Israel.

Slain Israelis Shirel Aboukaret and Yazan Fallah

Lone Wolves? Islamic State sympathisers kill six Israelis in two attacks

March 28, 2022 | Ahron Shapiro

Israeli supporters of the Islamic State ideology have been responsible for two terror attacks in Israel this week, raising fears that Israeli security services may have been caught off-guard by what may be only the beginning of a wave of IS-inspired terrorism.

Israeli medical staff from Sheba Medical Centre on their way to Ukraine

Israel’s humanitarian response in Ukraine continues a long Israeli tradition

March 22, 2022 | Tammy Reznik

As it so often does during times of crisis, Israel has committed tonnes of goods and hundreds of its finest diplomats, medics and humanitarian workers to help the people of Ukraine in the current war launched by Russia.

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Latest IAEA report: Iran now a whisker away from nuclear weapons capabilities

March 10, 2022 | Ran Porat

On March 3, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published its latest report on Iran’s nuclear program… Iran continues its gradual and steady process of ‘breaking out slowly’ towards achieving nuclear weapons capabilities and the status of ‘nuclear threshold’ country.

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Explainer: Why do Iran, Syria and their proxies support Russia in the Ukrainian crisis?

March 8, 2022 | Ran Porat

The members of the so called ‘axis of resistance’ – the regimes of Syria and Iran, along with their proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen – have sided with Russia, either directly and overtly as Syria has, or, in Teheran’s case, a bit more indirectly.

Israeli security forces in Lod, May 2021 (Image: Wikipedia)

New Study again confirms Israel has firm security reasons for controversial “Citizenship Law”

March 7, 2022 | Judy Maynard

In the wake of Amnesty International’s widely discredited report labelling Israel an apartheid state, many pro-Palestinian activists have focused on…

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Israel uses Abraham Accords ties to encourage Middle Eastern allies to condemn Russia

March 4, 2022 | Ahron Shapiro

The US has thanked Israel for lobbying its friendly neighbours and allies to vote in the UN General Assembly to criticise Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

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