29 Jewish Australians were awarded honours in the Queen’s Birthday honours’ list Yiddish report 14.6.2020

Twenty-nine Jewish Australians were awarded honours in the Queen’s Birthday honours’ list this week, a number that represents 3% of all honoured Australians on that list, a commendable achievement considering that Jews make up only 0.4% of the total Australian population. The Covid-19 pandemic has also brought with it a huge growth in anti-Semitic and racist blame and conspiracy theories on the internet, aimed at recruiting isolated and lonely young people to extremist causes and groups, a phenomenon that is being monitored and fought by a group calling itself “All Together Now”, which aims at creating fairer and more equal Australian society. The Australian Jewish “Hadassah” health philanthropic organisation that aims at building understanding between Israelis and Palestinians through health, has answered the urgent call by the Palestinian Authority for hospital ventilators, sorely needed by the Palestinians facing a catastrophe due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and donated 150 hospital ventilators that were sent via Israel to Ramallah and which will be distributed in medical facilities in the West Bank territories and Gaza. An Israeli Technion laboratory funded by Australian philanthropists Robert and Ruth Magid, has developed a microscope that can record the flow of light, with scientists predicting it could be used among other key advances, to greatly sharpen the resolution of screens on mobile phones, TVs and other devices.

Source: SBS