Africa
“It is disturbing that only Israeli athletes were singled out for harassment,” the South African Jewish Board of Deputies says.
Two people contracted the disease in Ethiopia; the third was infected in Israel via contaminated water brought in from Ethiopia.
The U.S. president “was right to highlight the moral aberration of the ‘Kill the Boer’ chant and the horrific farm murders,” Warren Goldstein said.
“The ANC is against Israel, not South Africa,” Johannesburg city councilor Theo Doyle tells JNS.
The Israeli military’s involvement in the multinational exercise sparked intense backlash across Arab social media platforms.
NBC had reported on a proposal to let a million Palestinians move.
A Jewish jewelry store owner was wounded, a week before the annual Lag B’Omer pilgrimage to the ancient El-Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island.
Sa’ar links the Iranian-backed terror group to Al-Shabaab in joint press conference with Ethiopian counterpart; Jerusalem, Addis Ababa seek to deepen alliance across sectors.
“Israel would make a mistake in thinking that South Africa is an enemy,” Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein tells JNS.
SAZF’s Rowan Polovin says what the ANC fears is that “exposure to the truth will shatter the lazy, dogmatic narrative they have clung to for years.”
“We support Israel and believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization which must be annihilated,” MP Ashley Sauls tells JNS.
The moves come amid a diplomatic tug-of-war in Africa between supporters and opponents of the Jewish state.
