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UIA 2023 Yom Ha'atzmaut Mission and Major Donor Mission participants at Tel Nof air force base.
May 28, 2023, 6:32 am
UIA’s global mission
...the participants also had the opportunity to tour the Gaza Strip border, Sderot city and the seam line in Jerusalem with Dani Tirza
By Mia Gardiner
Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza Strip, late May 2, 2023. Photo: AP Photo/Fatima Shbair
May 9, 2023, 11:33 am
Top Islamic Jihad terrorists killed as IDF bombs Gaza
Surprise attack sees Israel target Iran-backed group in Rafah and Gaza City days after flare-up; residents near Gaza told to enter shelters, schools closed.
Sderot locals review the damage caused by a rocket. Photo: Sderot Municipality
July 19, 2018, 12:00 am
Tensions escalate after Gazan rocket barrage
Southern Israel is reeling, after Gaza militants fired 200 rockets in a single day, injuring residents and terrifying worshippers in a synagogue.
By Nathan Jeffay
The AJN's Nathan Jeffay (left) with Eyal Hagbi on a patch of land scorched by a kite fire.
June 7, 2018, 12:00 am
Southern Israel hit by Gazan terror kites
Residents in southern Israel are aghast, after watching huge fires started by terror kites gobbling up thousands of square metres of crops.
By Nathan Jeffay
Israelis react in a shelter on Tuesday after a siren is sounded, in a kibbutz near the Gaza border. Photo: AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov
May 31, 2018, 12:00 am
Israelis injured in rocket attack from Gaza
Israelis were forced to seek shelter on Tuesday as the south was pounded by rockets from Gaza, hitting a number of targets including a kindergarten. The attack, by Gaza militants, was the biggest barrage into Israel for four years.
By Nathan Jeffay
The menorah made of rockets on top of the Hesder Yeshivah.
May 3, 2018, 12:00 am
In solidarity with Sderot
Several months ago, I was approached to join a nascent organisation, the Australian Friends of Sderot (AFOS). AFOS is tasked with raising funds for Sderot and in particular the Hesder Yeshivah, an institution geographically and culturally central to Sderot.
Tamir Pardo (right) being interviewed by Yoav Limor at the JNF Annual Dinner at Sydney's Royal Randwick on September 6. Photo: Giselle Haber
September 15, 2017, 12:00 am
Standing ovation for Pardo at Sydney JNF Dinner
Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo received a standing ovation from an audience of 850 at JNF's Annual Dinner at Sydney's Royal Randwick on September 6, which raised funds for the Park of Courage in Sderot, Israel.
By Shane Desiatnik
Nathan Jeffay (right) being briefed by an IDF captain on the Gaza border.
April 13, 2017, 12:01 am
Living in the shadow of terror
IN southern Israel, the start of Passover came with a sense of foreboding for some. “There’s an element of fear going into the chag,” said Yosef Dahan, a 74-year- old technician.
Public bomb shelter in Sderot.
August 25, 2016, 9:24 am
Rocket attack, reprisals on southern border
Israel has carried out airstrikes against dozens of Hamas targets, after a rocket landed in Sderot, after two years of relative calm.
By Nathan Jeffay
Joe Krycer. Photo: Dean Schmideg
April 15, 2016, 12:00 am
Show solidarity with Sderot
WELL known Australian Jewish communal figure Joe Krycer (pictured) is inviting members of the community who are in Israel over Pesach to join a free tour he has arranged to Sderot to view conditions in the well-known border town that has weathered an onslaught of Hamas rockets over the years.
By Peter Kohn
July 18, 2014, 12:00 am
Sydneysider’s Sderot apartment hit by rocket
TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Tom Becker (pictured), born and bred in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, has found himself in the thick of Hamas rocket fire over the last week.
By Phoebe Roth
November 21, 2012, 1:03 pm
Israel ravaged by rockets
November 20, 2012, 12:00 am
A helping hand for victims under fire
THE mental toll of the constant torrent of rockets being fired from Gaza into southern Israel often goes unspoken.
By Gareth Narunsky
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