Alex Dafner with the latest Yiddish News, P Rivlin Visit in Australia 1.3.2020

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin was warmly welcomed in Australia by the PM Scott Morrison the Governor-General of Australia, Premiers of Vic and NSW and Parliamentarians from both sides of politics, and was an honoured guest at the Sydney Garden Island Naval base, the Jewish Community, the UIA Centenary Appeal Galas, the Australia – Israel Chamber of Commerce events, the Australian Securities Exchange, students at Mt Scopus College and he managed to visit the Toronga Zoo’s hospital to pat a Koala, and he undertook to meet with Israel’s Chief Justice next week over the long delay of a verdict in the trial extradition of Malka Leifer. ASIO’s intelligence Chief Mike Burgess included, for the first time, the growth of the extreme right-wing threat in his annual threat assessment report, saying that in the suburbs around Australia, small cells regularly meet to salute Nazi flags, inspect weapons, train in combat and share their hateful ideology. The Andrews Labor Govt in Victoria has announced a long fought for request by the JCCV, Gandel Philanthropy and the JHC, to include Holocaust studies in years 9 and 10 in all Victorian Government schools’ curricula, which will make Victoria the second state after NSW to do so, and which follows disturbing incidents of antisemitic bullying in two Victorian Schools last year. The Chabad organisation has opened the first Jewish primary school in Canberra, catering for kids from Kindergarten to Year 6…

, Photo by Kobi Gideon / GPO Source: SBS