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Business

Packer’s ‘gifts to PM’s son’

James Packer is reportedly being investigated in Israel over expensive gifts received by the son of Benjamin Netanyahu.

EXCLUSIVENational Affairs

Paul Oosting for TasWeekend 6 August 2016 election washup story

Pro-Palestinian funds to GetUp!

GetUp! has accepted more than $200,000 from organisations seeking the withdrawal of Israel from occupied territories.

Caroline Overington

MARGIN CALLMargin Call

Packer bides time in Israel

James Packer has kept a low public profile since parting ways with his pop singer fiancee Mariah Carey in September.

Will Glasgow and Christine Lacy

exclusiveForeign Affairs

Push to lift Israel defence ties

Australia and Israel should upgrade military and diplomatic relations, according to a major report.

Greg Sheridan

exclusiveThe Nation

(September 2016) Animals Australia campaign ad in Tel Aviv, Israel. Source: Supplied

Live cattle to Israel targeted

Australia’s fifth largest market for live exports is at risk as Animals Australia launches a campaign in Israel.

JACOB ATKINS

The World

(FILES) This file photo taken on July 6, 2014 shows Israeli President Shimon Peres speaking to members of the Foreign Press Association during a visit in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, following the recent Palestinian rocket attacks on the city. Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on September 28, 2016, his personal doctor told AFP, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke. / AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA

Last modern peacenik dies

The death of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres may well mark the death of the modern Arab-Israeli peace process.

Greg Sheridan

Richard Gluyas

02/05/2016: Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer delivers the bank's first half results at their Sydney offices in Barangaroo. Pic by James Croucher

Westpac chief eyes the upside

Hartzer will have one eye on next month’s Canberra grilling as he offers up an upbeat take on the economy tomorrow.

RICHARD GLUYAS

world commentaryWorld Commentary

Mid-East fix path to prosperity

The Israeli-Palestinian issue will determine whether the region’s future will be one of peace and prosperity.

Carl Bildt

Margin CallMargin Call

Rod Clement Margin Call cartoon for 15-09-2016 Version: (Original) COPYRIGHT: The Australian's artists each have different copyright agreements in place regarding re-use of their work in other publications. Please seek advice from the artists themselves or the Managing Editor of The Australian regarding re-use.

Casting lots for a little holy sin

Gaming billionaire and noted Australian republican James Packer’s current trip to Israel is well timed.

Will Glasgow and Christine Lacy

EXCLUSIVEForeign Affairs

A supporter of former Israeli president Moshe Katzav imprisoned since 2011 for rape and other sexual offences, holds an Israeli flag outside the prison where he is being held in Ramla, after a parole board rejected a request for his early release on August 4, 2016. The decision came just four months after a previous attempt by the disgraced former leader to reduce a third of his seven-year sentence, which had been rejected in part because he had expressed no regret over his crimes and undergone no rehabilitative process. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI

GetUp! director fighting Israel

A director of activist group GetUp! supports a boycott of Israeli products.

Sharri Markson

OPINIONJack the Insider

Brazilian paratroops stand guard outside the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 9, 2016, ahead of the Rio Olympic Games. / AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE SIMON

Avoiding Rio my Olympics hope

I’ll be living my Olympic dream of watching from the safety of my couch. The question is, what can possibly go right in Rio?

Jack the Insider

Rugby Union

Hayne a natural for rugby: Folau

Israel Folau says Jarryd Hayne has the “natural talent” to make a successful switch to rugby.

Bret Harris

EXCLUSIVEFederal Election 2016

Greens candidate Jim Casey campaigning Pic Chris Pavlich

Casey ‘outed’ as a BDS-backer

YouTube footage has emerged of Greens candidate for Grayndler Jim Casey apparently backing the BDS campaign.

SID MAHER

exclusiveBusiness

Cyber threats ‘a clear danger’

A top hi-tech executive from Israel has warned governments and firms against piecemeal solutions to cyber security.

Damon Kitney

Terry McCrann

You can bank on usual suspects

CBA chief Ian Narev made a perfectly anodyne observation in a speech this week — and unleashed a firestorm.

Terry McCrann

Foreign Affairs

28/01/2016: Former NSW Premier and Professor in International Relations, Bob Carr, photographed at University of Technology Sydney. Carr heads up the UTS China institute talks on the outlook for the Chinese economy given the recent volatility in the share market and new questions re the strength of the Chinese economy. Hollie Adams/The Australian

‘Open up friends of Israel books’

Pressure is growing for a Labor friends-of-Israel group to open its accounts to show who has been funding trips to Israel.

JOHN LYONS

The Nation

Former Adass Israel School principal Malka Leifer.

Headmistress to face psych tests

Fugitive Jewish school principal Malka Leifer will be called to justify her absences from extradition proceedings in Israel.

Jamie Walker

The World

Former Adass Israel School principal Malka Leifer. - Upsized

Judge orders tests in abuse case

A former Melbourne Jewish school principal sought on child sex abuse allegations faces new psychiatric evaluations.

Jamie Walker

Inquirer

Too ‘panicked’ to deal with abuse

Extradition from Israel looms for school principal and mother of eight.

Jamie Walker

Greg Sheridan

Australia barely bucks left trend

ALP stays firm on defence and Israel while the Coalition is able to back immigration.

Greg Sheridan

Jack the Insider

Bob Carr and his missing marbles

The former NSW premier’s call to cut immigration, and his attacks on Israel, belong on the lunatic fringe.

Jack the Insider

Opinion

Anti-Semitism’s licit disguise

Bob Carr’s outburst typifies the Left’s remodelled, law-dodging brand of racism.

Jennifer Oriel

Middle East

Members of Israeli border police mourn during the funeral of their colleague, 19-year-old officer Hadar Cohen on February 4, 2016 during her funeral in a cemetery in the town of Yehud, east of the coastal Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Three Palestinians armed with rifles, knives and explosives attacked Israeli police outside Jerusalem's Old City on February 3, 2016, killing Hadar Cohen and wounding another officer before being shot dead. The policewoman died of a gunshot wound to the head that she suffered when the border police approached the Palestinians for identity checks, Israeli authorities said. / AFP / JACK GUEZ

Arab MPs warned of expulsion

PM Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that some Arab members of Israel’s parliament could be drummed out of the Knesset.

Jamie Walker

The World

An Israeli medic inspects the body of a Palestinian at the scene of a shooting attack near the Damascus gate, Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. Three Palestinians carrying automatic weapons, explosive devices and knives shot and stabbed two Israeli security officers in Jerusalem on Wednesday, wounding both before police shot and killed the attackers, police said. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Knife intifada gathering bombs

Israel has been shaken by a bloody attack by Palestinians at the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVEPolicy

Former premier Peter Beattie, speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia luncheon, Pullman Hotel the City - Photo Steve Pohlner

ALP ‘Stalinist’ on Israel: Beattie

Peter Beattie says the Labor Party risks becoming politically irrelevant over its ‘Stalinist’ approach to Israel.

Sharri Markson

EXCLUSIVEState Politics

Warren Mundine speaking at a doorstop at Parliament House in Canberra.

Anti-Jew ALP bid ‘sickening’

Former Labor national president Warren Mundine says a move to ban sponsored trips to Israel ‘verges on anti-Semitic’.

Sharri Markson

Opinion

ALP’s anti-Semitism behind trip ban

Banning trips to Israel is not the answer to illegal settlements. Negotiations and dialogue are.

Sharri Markson

The World

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 4, 2013, file photo, a Jewish woman wears a prayer shawl as she prays at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's Old City. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is advancing a plan to allow non-Orthodox Jewish prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a move advocates say would mark unprecedented government support for liberal streams of Judaism. According to the government proposal Israel would build a new plaza for mixed gender prayer at the Western Wall, adjacent to the Orthodox prayer plaza. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Men and women to pray at Wailing Wall

Men and women will be able to pray together at one of Judaism’s holiest sites following a vote by Israel’s cabinet.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVELegal Affairs

Principal ‘exploiting’ Israeli law

Friends of woman molested by headmistress have accused the ex-principal of seeking to exploit Israel’s justice system.

KATHERINE TOWERS and Cameron Stewart

The World

Iraqi security forces help trapped civilians to come out to safe places in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. Anbar Provincial Council head Sabah Karhout told The Associated Press on Thursday that sporadic clashes and airstrikes were taking place in areas that are still under IS control. He says a major offensive to clear the remainder of the provincial capital is on hold due to the bad weather, he says families are still trapped in the IS-held areas of the city, where they are being used as human shields. (AP Photo)

War knocking on Israel’s door

Syria’s civil war has intensified on Israel’s doorstep, injecting further uncertainty into the conflict.

Jamie Walker

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