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The impact of sanctions on the middle-class women of Iran
Tensions have flared – again – in the Middle East, after Israel reportedly sabotaged an Iranian nuclear facility. Israel has long demanded sanctions against Iran over its nuclear ambitions – and the Trump administration obliged. It imposed tough penalties against the country. But have the sanctions hurt the very people who can reform Iran from…
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How 2600 Jewish families escaped Lithuania during WW2
As Nazi Germany spread across Europe, thousands of Jews ended up in relative safety in Lithuania. With German troops advancing, a few Dutch and Japanese diplomats devised a strategy to enable many of them to flee to safety across Russia by giving them visas to the island of Curacao in the Caribbean. Listen to Jan…
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Jewish leader ‘regrets’ anti-Israel claims
Former Labor MP Melissa Parke has settled a defamation case against a prominent Jewish leader, who has expressed “regret” for making claims of anti-Semitism. Both Ms Parke and Australia-Israel Jewish Affairs Council executive director Colin Rubenstein claim the case had major implications for freedom of speech. Ms Parke, who withdrew from recontesting the seat of…
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Obituary: Extraordinary Isi Leibler changed his world
Isi Leibler, the Australian businessman, philanthropist and driven Jewish activist, has died in Jerusalem. He was 87 and had moved to Israel in 1999 after a lifetime in Australia. He was known as a successful businessman founding Jetset Travel in the 1960s, and for his then-unfashionable campaign to allow Russian Jews to leave the Soviet…
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Isi Leibler, key advocate for Jewish ‘refuseniks’, dies in Israel
Isi Leibler, a prominent leader of the Australian Jewish community, has died in Israel. Mr Leibler was a key advocate for Soviet Jews, known as the “refuseniks”, to be allowed to emigrate to Israel after they were refused exit visas by the totalitarian regime. He died on Tuesday morning surrounded by family, aged 86. Beginning…
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Iran will enrich uranium to 60 per cent, highest level ever: official
Dubai: Iran will begin enriching uranium up to 60 per cent purity after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, a negotiator said, pushing its program to higher levels than ever before though still remaining short of weapons-grade. The announcement on Tuesday, local time, marks a significant escalation after the sabotage, suspected of having been carried out…
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The Palestinians ‘don’t hold the key’ to peace in the Middle East
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council’s Jamie Hyams says the Abraham Accords between Bahrain, the UAE, Sudan, and Morocco have shown “the Palestinians don’t hold the key to peace in the Middle East”. “The Abraham Accords actually forced Palestine to look at a different strategy because their recalcitrance proved to not be working,” he said.…
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Israel’s Plight: An Absence of Leadership
The result of the fourth election in two years clearly points to the dysfunction of Israel’s political system and the many fault lines of its democracy. Sadly, personal rivalries rather than political platforms that address foreign and domestic policies rule the day. Background In March, Israelis went to the polls for the fourth time in…
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Iran-US-Israel: Boxing out of the shadows
Gradual progress in talks to revive the nuclear deal may be dealt a blow by a series of “grey-zone” attacks. Just as the negotiations between Tehran and Washington appear to be making some, albeit slow, progress over the United State rejoining the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, several incidents between Israel…
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Iran says it begins 60% uranium enrichment
Iran has begun 60 per cent uranium enrichment, the country’s chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi has told state media a day after officials accused Israel of sabotaging a key nuclear site. Araqchi made his announcement shortly before the resumption of talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, an accord…