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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
June 16, 2018, 9:01 am
Australian FM says embassy won’t move to Jerusalem, rebuffing party pressure
Julie Bishop also rejects calls to halt aid to Palestinian Authority over its payments to 'martyrs,' says all funds are audited to ensure they don't go to terror
By TOI staff
Players from Australia's national soccer team attend a training session at the Kazan Arena on June 15, 2018, in Kazan, Russia, on the eve of the team's opening match against France. (AFP Photo/Saeed Khan)
June 15, 2018, 6:41 pm
Diplomat calls on Israelis to root for Aussies at World Cup for support at UN
Foreign Ministry official in charge of Asia-Pacific region thanks Australia for opposing resolution condemning Israel's handling of Gaza clashes
By Alexander Fulbright
Students from Australia's Charles Sturt University are seen dressed in Ku Klax Klan uniforms and blackface for a 'politically incorrect' themed birthday party. (Twitter)
June 15, 2018, 4:18 pm
Australian students slammed for Nazi, KKK uniform costume party
Anti-Defamation Commission says the 'foolish students' from Charles Sturt University 'crossed every line of decency'
By TOI staff
Australian businessman Anthony Pratt, executive chairman of Visy Industries and Pratt Industries in America, stands during a news conference with US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the East Room of the White House on February 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
May 27, 2018, 11:49 pm
5 of the 7 wealthiest people in Australia are Jewish
Anthony Pratt, the owner of a paper and packaging firm, named country's richest individual, followed by property magnate Harry Triguboff
By JTA
Illustrative. A wedding. (Shutterstock via JTA)
May 27, 2018, 11:40 pm
Australian groups give government committee info on Jewish divorce refusal
Organizations tell commission reviewing country's family law system that refusing to grant a 'get' is 'a form of family violence'
By JTA
Illustrative photo of police in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia, January 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)
May 20, 2018, 5:48 pm
Jewish siblings in Australia assaulted in suspected anti-Semitic attack
Woman and her brother said to be wearing religious clothing when they were attacked by unknown assailant who fled the scene
By TOI staff
Ilan Buchman and Oscar Shub at their wedding at Sydney's Emanuel Synagogue on May 2, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 16, 2018, 6:34 pm
Couple holds Australia’s first same-sex Jewish wedding
Ilan Buchman and Oscar Shub tie the knot at Sydney's Emanuel Synagogue 5 months after country legalized gay marriage
By JTA
Italy's Elia Viviani celebrates on the podium after winning the 2nd stage of the 101st Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy, on May 5, 2018, 167 kilometers between Haifa and Tel Aviv. (AFP PHOTO / LUK BENIES)
May 5, 2018, 7:57 pm
Viviani wins 2nd stage of Giro d’Italia in Tel Aviv
Italian rider finishes the 167-kilometer leg down the Mediterranean coast in less than four hours, before thousands of chanting fans
By Agencies
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, speaks as Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull listens during a joint press conference in Sydney, Wednesday, May 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
May 2, 2018, 1:06 pm
Macron calls Australian prime minister’s wife ‘delicious’
Comment recalls Trump's from a year earlier, when he told Brigitte Macron that she was 'in such great shape'
By AP
An Australian woman wanted in her home country for child sex abuse crimes is seen at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 1, 2018, 11:15 am
Australian TV airs covert footage of molester facing extradition from Israel
More than 200 hours of video show fugitive teacher was apparently faking mental illness to avoid being sent to Melbourne, where she faces 74 charges of sex crimes
By TOI staff
Protesters demonstrate in Tel Aviv against live shipments of animals for fattening and slaughter in Israel, April 28, 2018. (Adi Avikzer)
April 30, 2018, 12:01 am
Thousands protest ‘agonizing’ live shipment of animals to Israel
Big rise in numbers of live animals imported so far this year, despite government pledge to phase in chilled meat
By Sue Surkes
Undated image of sheep bound for the meat industries of the Middle East from Australia are so overcrowded that they are forced to stand, covered in excrement, for the more than three week journey by sea. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)
April 9, 2018, 12:53 am
Public security minister calls for halt to ‘cruel’ long haul animal shipments
Gilad Erdan slams supervision on international shipments after Australian group uncovers overcrowding, filth and suffering on livestock vessels bound for Middle East
By Sue Surkes
Australian lawmaker Stuart Robert in 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 28, 2018, 4:51 pm
Australian MP proposes apology for failure to act during Holocaust
Stuart Robert says country 'turned its back on our Jewish friends at the exact time they needed us' by refusing to give refuge
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
An Australian woman wanted in her home country for child sex abuse crimes is seen at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 27, 2018, 2:44 pm
Court delays decision on extraditing alleged sex abuser to Australia
Dismissing prosecution's request, court says female suspect should be dealt with 'in the realm of mental illness,' new hearing scheduled for March 28
By AP and Stuart Winer
Economy and Industry Minister Eli Cohen attends a press conference in Tel Aviv, on January 4, 2018. (Flash90)
February 26, 2018, 11:19 am
Minister claims Israel warned 30 countries about specific terror plots in 2017
But senior cabinet colleague says Economy Minister Eli Cohen doesn't know what he's talking about; Cohen also claims 11 died in recent Israeli strikes in Syria when F-16 downed
By TOI staff
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