The Executive Council of Australian Jews supports and urges Australia to support new sanctions against Iran, following the US imposition of such sanctions over Irans ballistic missile program. NSW Labor leader Luke Foley and other Laborites, would not support a planned motion at the NSW Labor Conference, to ban Labor MPs and officials from accepting paid visits to Israel and the M-E. Australian Jewish community was shocked and mourns the brutal murder of Dafna Meier eh, in her home on the West Bank, as the wave of stabbing attacks in Israel since October 2015 passes 109.A celebrated Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld is among the winners of this years Sydney Taylor Book Award for Adam and Thomas, a fictional story, about two young boys who survive the last winter of the Holocaust hiding in the woods, based on Appelfelds own story of survival.A 95-year-old former SS member Hubert Zafke, will go on trial in north-east Germany next month accused of assisting in the mass murder of 3,681 Auschwitz death camp inmates during one month in 1944.
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