Alex Dafner:"10 million grant for the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre " Yiddish Report 14.4.2019

The Australian media, TV, radio and internet reported widely and intensively about the Israeli elections and especially the close contest between the incumbent and ultimately victorious Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz of the Blue and White Party. The Age newspaper reported on the sharp exchanges that took place in a debate between the Jewish candidates in the coming elections on the 18th May, Kate Ashmore for the Liberals and Josh Burns for Labor, for the Melbourne Federal electoral seat of Macnamara, the seat with the largest number of Jewish voters in Australia, particularly on the questions to do with their pride in their Jewishness and support of Israel and Zionism. The Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, himself a son of a Holocaust survivor mother, announced a $10 million grant for the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre and Museum, to enable them to grow and modernise and to reach double the number of 23,000 students they now educate about the Holocaust every year. There was disappointment in Israel and Australia over the Israeli Breshit space ship’s crash on the moon, a daring mission which also involved Australian space tracking stations and data analysts, but those involved took pride in being only the 7th country to reach the moon and to live up to the slogan painted on the space ship under the Israeli flag: “Small Country, Big Dreams”. Wishes for a good week and Happy Passover

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