Three men, two of whom are based in South Africa, were named by the United States (US) treasury this week in association with activities linked to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on the African continent. Abubakar Swalleh, Zayd Gangat, and Hamidah Nabagala have been designated – in other words, sanctioned and no longer The post US sanctions reveal local terror financing network appeared first on Jewish Report.

South African Ronli Dorfman was sleeping peacefully in a Tel Aviv hotel in the early hours of Friday, 19 July, when she heard an explosion that awoke her from the deepest of sleeps. “The boom was so intense that I actually thought the whole area was going to start imploding,” she says. “It just felt The post South Africans stirred but not shaken by Houthi attack appeared first on Jewish Report.

Israeli soldier Regev Reef Amar dreamt of becoming prime minister of Israel one day and always told his friends and family he was prepared to die for his country. He was killed by Hamas terrorists on 7 October last year, just two weeks before his 21st birthday. Regev also dreamt of visiting South Africa, the The post Bereaved mom finds true north with leadership academy appeared first on Jewish Report.

Living just 400m from the Lebanese border, South African olah Adrienne Chonowitz thought she was leaving for only a few days at most when she, her husband Hilton, her daughter-in-law, and grandchildren evacuated their homes on Kibbutz Ma’ayan Baruch, on 8 October. The Chonowitz’s two sons stayed behind to guard the kibbutz as part of The post Refugees at home: the plight of Israel’s evacuees appeared first on Jewish Report.

In a significant moment for the South African Jewish community, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has laid a complaint against the African National Congress (ANC) about the community’s exclusion from national interfaith events. This is possibly the first time that a complaint against the ANC has been lodged at the Commission for The post Board takes ANC to task for excluding SA Jewry appeared first on Jewish Report.

Some light is finally beginning to emerge out of the darkness of denial and lies told the world over about the Hamas attack on 7 October. In a startling departure from its traditionally held anti-Israel views, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has in the past few days published a 236-page report titled “I can’t erase all The post Deny, attack, reverse: Hamas’s abusive arsenal appeared first on Jewish Report.

A calm July winter morning in Buenos Aires turned into a nightmare when a suicide bomber drove a car laden with hundreds of kilograms of explosives into the Jewish community’s Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) building. Eighty-five people were brutally murdered and hundreds injured that day – the single deadliest antisemitic attack in more than The post Lessons from AMIA bombing – more relevant than ever appeared first on Jewish Report.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog accused the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague this week of mixing politics with law, rejecting what he called the court’s outright one-sided and ill-judged advisory opinion. Israel’s president, a lawyer by profession, was referring to the opinion that the ICJ issued on 19 July that Israel’s presence in The post ICJ ‘occupation’ opinion heaps pressure on Israel appeared first on Jewish Report.

There I was imbibing the glitz and glamour of the opening of South Africa’s seventh Parliament, which couldn’t have been scripted by Monty Python with greater irony. As I stood on the sidewalk outside the magnificent edifice of the Cape Town City Hall, which now houses our Parliament since Christmas Mafe braaied the old building, The post Parliament – high stakes, high society, and high fashion appeared first on Jewish Report.