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Jacob Magid
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf meets with Israel's President Isaac Herzog. Photo: US Embassy Jerusalem/Twitter
June 27, 2022, 3:30 pm
US pushing Israel to avoid further damaging ties
By Jacob Magid
President Joe Biden with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House in August 2021. Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
June 16, 2022, 10:01 am
Biden to visit Israel, West Bank, Saudi Arabia
'We're doing all we can to strengthen Israel security, prosperity and integration'
By Jacob Magid
Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran. Photo: STRINGER / AFP
May 26, 2022, 12:15 pm
IRGC to stay on terror list
"I laud the US administration, and first and foremost my friend, President Joe Biden, on his intention to leave the Revolutionary Guards where they belong – on the terror list."
By Jacob Magid
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman kisses the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 15, 2017. Photo: AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana
March 14, 2022, 7:30 am
Smashing the narrative
David Friedman's memoir Sledgehammer finds the former US ambassador to Israel unsnarling years of broken diplomacy for a new Middle East, although others recall a less tidy narrative.
By Jacob Magid
Police in front of the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. Photo: AP Photo/Brandon Wade
January 21, 2022, 8:15 am
Random act or antisemitic attack?
Questions remain: why did Malik Faisal target Congregation Beth Israel?
By Jacob Magid
SWAT team members at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas on Sunday. Photo: Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images
January 21, 2022, 7:30 am
Shabbat shule siege in Texas
Over 12 tense hours on Sunday (AEDT), the eyes of the world were focused on a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas where a rabbi and a number of his congregants were being held at gunpoint.
By Jacob Magid
SWAT team members at Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville on Sunday. Photo: Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images
January 17, 2022, 5:25 pm
‘Our security training helped us escape from the gunman’
“Over the years, my congregation and I have participated in multiple security courses... We are alive today because of that education."
By Jacob Magid
Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas.
January 16, 2022, 9:05 am
All hostages released from synagogue ‘alive and safe’
1st three hours of ordeal unfolds on shule service livestream; suspect said to demand release of sister jailed for plot to kill US soldiers, shouts, ‘I’m going to die’
By Jacob Magid
Deborah Lipstadt at the Melbourne 2019 Writers Festival. Photo: Peter Haskin
August 2, 2021, 1:38 pm
Deborah Lipstadt appointed US antisemitism envoy
US President Joe Biden has picked renowned Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt to be his antisemitism envoy.
By Jacob Magid
Malka Leifer appearing via video link during a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court in 2020. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
From the WebDecember 3, 2020, 11:53 pm
Leifer faces wait on extradition appeal verdict
Israel's Supreme Court convened on Thursday for an appeal by Malka Leifer’s defence team against the Jerusalem District Court’s September decision to extradite Leifer to Australia.
By Jacob Magid
From the WebNovember 23, 2020, 10:10 am
Malka Leifer’s lawyers step down
Alleged child sexual abuser Malka Leifer has been dumped by her lawyers ahead of an extradition appeal hearing in the Supreme Court of Israel on December 3.
By Jacob Magid
From the WebJuly 21, 2020, 9:32 am
Leifer’s lawyers claim alleged victims ‘consented’
At a long-awaited extradition hearing for Malka Leifer on Monday, the defence team sought to argue those who accuse their client of sexual abuse had effectively consented to it.
By Jacob Magid
Malka Leifer is led out of the Jerusalem District Court in 2018.
July 20, 2020, 4:23 pm
Alleged abuse to be aired in court
Malka Leifer's extradition trial will begin at 5.30pm AEST on Monday. For the first time, details of Dassi Erlich and her sisters' alleged abuse will be aired in an Israeli court.
By Jacob Magid
From the WebJuly 8, 2020, 9:15 pm
Leifer’s lawyers file Supreme Court appeal
Attorneys representing Malka Leifer on Wednesday filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against a Jerusalem court ruling that found her mentally fit to face extradition to Australia.
By Jacob Magid
Malka Leifer being brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem in February 2018. Photo: AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean
June 16, 2020, 4:30 pm
New twist in Leifer case
Malka Leifer's lawyer is demanding Israel's prison system explain why it's prescribing Leifer anti-psychotic medication if a psychiatric panel says she’s faking mental illness.
By Jacob Magid
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