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Liberal Party cadidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma (L) waits for voters outside a polling station during the Wentworth by-election in Bondi Beach in Sydney on October 20, 2018 (PETER PARKS / AFP)
October 19, 2019, 11:14 pm
Ex-Australian envoy says Israel’s failure to extradite Malka Leifer damages ties
Ambassador-turned-MP Dave Sharma tells parliament that 5-year-and-counting process to send alleged serial pedophile back to Melbourne increasingly becoming point of contention
By Jacob Magid
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to media after the official opening of the refurbished ANZAC Memorial in Sydney on October 20, 2018 (Saeed KHAN / AFP)
October 20, 2018, 2:02 pm
Australia government loses crucial vote, leaving Israel embassy move in doubt
Result in by-election snuffs out coalition’s one-seat majority, sends country into period of political instability, diminishes prospects of mission relocating to Jerusalem
By AFP and TOI staff
Newly elected leader of the Liberal Party, Scott Morrison addresses media at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Aug. 24, 2018 (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)
October 20, 2018, 4:56 am
Australia gov’t braces for defeat in vital by-election marked by Jerusalem offer
Loss will leave PM without parliamentary majority; he floated idea of moving embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in apparent attempt to woo Jewish voters
By AFP
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media in Canberra, October 17, 2018. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)
October 19, 2018, 11:50 am
‘Desperate’ times for Australian government as crunch election looms
Loss of by-election in heavily Jewish Sydney suburb of Wentworth, where former envoy to Israel Dave Sharma is running, could cost Liberal party its parliamentary majority
By AFP and TOI staff
Newly elected leader of the Liberal Party, Scott Morrison addresses media at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Aug. 24, 2018 (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)
October 18, 2018, 11:20 am
Australia’s spy agency said to warn embassy move may spark Palestinian violence
Top-secret bulletin says formally recognizing Israeli capital will ‘attract attention’; PM Morrison hits back at criticism from opposition, calls NSW Labour party ‘anti-Semitic’
By Tamar Pileggi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the winter session of the Knesset on October 15, 2018. (Knesset)
October 16, 2018, 4:00 pm
Electioneering at any cost: 8 things to know for October 16
Netanyahu’s tired quips, an unsafe train and a possible transfer of Australia’s embassy to Jerusalem are all chalked up to vote-chasing
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, left, speaks to the media alongside Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne at the Parliament House in Canberra, October 16, 2018. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)
October 16, 2018, 12:57 pm
Australia may also recognize East Jerusalem as future Palestinian capital
Israel praised Canberra’s surprise talk of recognition, embassy move, but Morrison’s distinction between east and west of city seems closer to Russia’s position than to Trump’s
By Raphael Ahren
Newly elected leader of the Liberal Party, Scott Morrison addresses media at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Aug. 24, 2018 (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)
October 16, 2018, 8:25 am
Netanyahu lauds, Palestinians deplore Australia for mulling embassy move
PM Scott Morrison tells press conference he is open to ‘sensible’ option, says he supports two-state solution but ‘frankly it hasn’t been going that well’
By Michael Bachner and AFP
Outgoing Australian Ambassador Dave Sharma at a farewell reception in Tel Aviv, June 11, 2017 (Ariel Besor)
June 15, 2017, 1:39 pm
Israel is ‘in our blood,’ outgoing Australian ambassador says
Packing up after four years in Tel Aviv, Dave Sharma reflects on close relationships, lessons learned, and a few ‘difficult conversations’
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a joint press conference in Sydney, Australia, on February 22, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)
April 12, 2017, 3:26 pm
Australia names new ambassador to Israel
After 4 years heading the Tel Aviv embassy, Dave Sharma is set to return to Canberra in mid-June
By TOI staff
Michael Danby
March 31, 2017, 2:07 pm
Michael Danby
Bad journalism or something else?
Whether Gaza aid worker Mohammad El-Halabi funneled millions to Hamas will be determined by an Israeli court, not Australian media
Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the site of a vehicle-ramming attack in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
January 8, 2017, 10:02 pm
US, EU lead international condemnation of Jerusalem attack
France ‘places itself on Israel’s side in its fight against terrorism,’ says FM, as local envoys, governments slam truck-ramming terror attack
By Raphael Ahren and TOI staff
Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the site of a vehicle-ramming attack in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
January 8, 2017, 3:25 pm
Foreign officials express horror, condemn Jerusalem terror attack
UN special envoy to the peace process says there are ‘absolutely no excuses’ for vehicular attack that killed 4, ‘must be condemned by all’
By Raphael Ahren
The Israeli startup Paratrek created an augmented wheelchair that allows people with paraplegia to go on hikes as a result of a Tikkun Olam Makers makethon. (Courtesy of Paratrek)
October 23, 2016, 11:48 am
Israel start-ups display disability tech in Australia
With a range of offerings from an online support community to extreme sports, assistive technology firms will meet investors, government officials in Sydney this week
By Shoshanna Solomon
Israeli security forces cordon off the site of a shooting attack near police headquarters in Jerusalem on October 9, 2016. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)
October 9, 2016, 8:44 pm
US condemns Jerusalem shooting, Palestinian celebrations of attack
Abbas’s Fatah praises terrorist who killed 2 as a martyr; UN peace envoy decries ‘deplorable’ glorification of attack by Hamas
By Stuart Winer
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