A bright future for Israeli-Arab relations...Yiddish report with Alex Dafner 25.10.2020

Australia’s Defence Minister Linda Reynolds held a productive telephone conversation with her Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz, a move described as another important step towards enhancing defence and security ties between the two nations with a similar set of shared common values and desire to contribute to maintaining global peace and security. Mark Regev, the former Melbourne Mt Scopus College and University graduate and current spokesman for the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, held a webinar with Australian Jews, in which he expressed his excitement over the recent agreements with the Arab Gulf States of UAE and Bahrain and predicted a bright future for Israeli-Arab relations and for Israel’s further burgeoning development, after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. A $2.5m Federal Government grant for the expansion of the Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre, was warmly greeted by the Adelaide Jewish community, politicians, educators and especially the 88-year-old Adelaide Holocaust survivor from Budapest and renown sculptor Andrew Steiner OAM. Anns: Tribute to the recently passed away Ruth Leiser e”h, the former long-time SBS Radio Sydney Yiddish producer and presenter and Holocaust child survivor, whose Jewish neshoma-soul, her love of Yiddish language and culture and Israel, shone through her much loved programs.

An Israeli flag blows in the wind from an elevated view of the Western Wall. Source: Moment RF