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The Bondi image that raises questions about security at Jewish event

The decision to send just three police officers to safeguard the Jewish festival at Bondi Beach where alleged Islamic State radicals shot dead 15 people and the failure of intelligence agencies to detect the terrorist plot will be the focus of the royal commission’s second tranche of hearings this week.

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Voting in New York: American Jews make local choices, not Israeli ones - opinion

A near-national panic seems to have broken out in Israel: How could so many New York Jews vote for a Muslim candidate for mayor? After all, everyone knows that the primary responsibility of New York’s mayor is to defend the State of Israel – and only afterward worry about garbage collection, the subway, crime, or th…

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Is it in the interest of justice?

THE nagging and vexing legal issue of whether or not the government, particularly the president, as the head of the executive department, can effect the arrest, detention, rendition or surrender of a Filipino citizen to the International Criminal Court (ICC), pursuant to a warrant of arrest issued by it, as in the p…

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Is Trump’s Iran war a crime of aggression?

AMHERST, Massachusetts — Many commentators, including those on the right, have dubbed United States President Donald Trump’s “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran “Operation Epic Fail”: an extravagant waste of money, military hardware, and lives in the service of an ill-conceived war with ever-changing objectives. Mean…

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On the Front Lines of Care: Kaplan Medical Center Faces War’s Challenges, Eyes Major Expansion

If one can judge the measure of a hospital by its leadership, Kaplan Medical Center stands apart. Both its CEO, Prof. Tarif Bader, and its Deputy Director, Dr. Alex Tiktinsky, have had extensive experience in the IDF, come from disparate geographical and cultural worlds – Bader is a Druze from Israel’s north, and Ti…

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Conflict, migration, aid cuts and community anger make it hard to stop the Ebola outbreak in Congo

As the second of three Ebola treatment centers was burned in eastern Congo on Saturday, Congolese army soldiers and police in riot gear escorted the ambulances carrying Ebola victims to a Rwampara cemetery. The Red Cross carried out what is referred to as safe and dignified burials – protocols used to bury victims d…

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High Court to hear petitions against Galatz closure as A-G warns of wider threat to free press

The High Court of Justice is set to convene on Tuesday for a follow-up hearing on petitions against the government’s decision to close Army Radio, as Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara argued that the move cannot be viewed as a narrow decision about one military station, but as part of a wider government effort aff…

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Russia blasts Ukraine with nuclear-capable hypersonic missile

Russia has used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile during a mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv that killed at least two people, marking the third time the weapon has been used in the four-year war.The intense aerial assault damaged buildings across the Ukrainian capital, including near government …

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