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Alex Dafner: David Eldar, Jewish Australian from Melbourne, has won the world Scrabble championship 3.9.2017

Alex Dafner with Kotz
Alex Dafner with Kotz Source: SBS

A motion that unconditionally recognized Palestine and condemned Israel and the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, was defeated at the Western Australian Labor Party Conference and instead a more balanced motion, similar to the one passed at the NSW Labor Party Conference, was adopted.Swastikas painted in a park next to the Jewish Chabad Centre in Canberra were left for 3 months, due to an administrative miscommunication, despite their being reported to the Australian Federal Police by the Centre and even though such offensive graffiti is normally removed within 24 hours.David Eldar, a 27 year old Jewish Australian from Melbourne, has won the world Scrabble championship in London, where he is living and working as a real estate agent, on his 7th attempt, by beating opponents from 26 countries and a Sri Lankan rival in the final, which he won 3 games to 0.


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A motion that unconditionally recognized Palestine and condemned Israel and the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, was defeated at the Western Australian Labor Party Conference and instead a more balanced motion, similar to the one passed at the NSW Labor Party Conference, was adopted.Swastikas painted in a park next to the Jewish Chabad Centre in Canberra were left for 3 months, due to an administrative miscommunication, despite their being reported to the Australian Federal Police by the Centre and even though such offensive graffiti is normally removed within 24 hours.David Eldar, a 27 year old Jewish Australian from Melbourne, has won the world Scrabble championship in London, where he is living and working as a real estate agent, on his 7th attempt, by beating opponents from 26 countries and a Sri Lankan rival in the final, which he won 3 games to 0.



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