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Transport Minister Jo Haylen apologises on Sunday.

Haylen could learn from a stint on public transport

The experience would enable the Transport Minister, who used official transport for a private trip, to see where improvements are needed, writes Sue Dyer.

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Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘I burst into tears’: Emotions high as World Vision worker freed in Gaza ceasefire exchange

Hamas freed three male hostages as Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth exchange.

  • Roy Ward, Mohammad Jahjouh and Imad Isseid
Randwick council cleaners remove antisemitic graffiti from houses in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

What if the antisemitic tide has a bigger target: Australia’s stability?

If foreign malign forces masterminded some of this wave of attacks, as authorities suspect, Australia will not be alone.

  • Lydia Khalil
Kfir Bibas, at nine months, was the youngest hostage taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Fears for Israel’s youngest hostage as Hamas releases father

The Bibas family became a potent symbol of Israel’s hostage crisis after video showed Palestinian militants leading away a distraught mother clutching her two small red-haired sons.

  • Erika Solomon
Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb and NSW Police deputy commissioner and counter-terror chief Dave Hudson.

Responsible reporting sometimes requires restraint

By exposing the police operation around the explosives-laden caravan, the Telegraph may have jeopardised the chances of catching the criminals, a reader writes.

Arbel Yehoud who had been held hostage since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters to be handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Gaza.

Chaotic scenes as Hamas releases eight more hostages following Gaza truce

The latest release was delayed when crowds surrounded the hostages as they made their way to waiting Red Cross vehicles.

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Rabbi Nochum Schapiro in the Masada College synagogue

‘You’re nervous going to sleep, nervous waking up, nervous checking your phone’

Rabbi Nochum Schapiro says some of his congregants are so afraid they have considered leaving Australia.

  • Jordan Baker
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pictured last week.

Albanese says antisemitic ‘cowards’ will be ‘hunted down, locked up’

Israel’s foreign minister said antisemitism was “spreading in Australia almost unchecked” and he expected more action to stop attacks on the Jewish community.

  • Matthew Knott
Forensic police examine damage to a property in Maroubra.

I’ve paid a hefty personal price for being tough in the face of antisemitism

Waking up this morning to a late-in-life realisation about how antisemitism has affected my life made my cheeks sink.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
The former home of prominent Jewish Australian Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin was targeted in a firebombing.

Eleven arrests, over a dozen attacks: Sydney’s wave of antisemitic horror

The discovery of a caravan laden with explosives follows an escalating series of attacks, with businesses, homes and synagogues defaced with graffiti and set alight.

  • Amber Schultz

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