Tag: South Africa
BDS supporters harass Miss South Africa on competing in Israel-hosted pageant
The beauty queen who will represent South Africa in the 2021 “Miss Universe” pageant set to take place in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat is facing online harassment by supporters of the BDS movement...
Chief rabbi calls out South Africa’s president over Israel ‘apartheid’ allegations
South Africa’s Sunday Times published an open letter by Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who compared Israel to South Africa under apartheid.
Goldstein challenged the president’s claim, saying “the truth is that...
US takes ‘principled decision‘ in skipping anti-Semitic Durban conference
Jewish leaders on Wednesday praised the Biden administration for announcing that the United States will not participate in upcoming events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action.
On Wednesday, Conference...
South Africa’s chief justice confronts the apartheid analogy
As of this writing, South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was on day seven of a 10-day deadline to publicly apologize for a speech he made last year in which he offered a full-throated...
Israeli Health Ministry reports four cases of South African COVID-19 variant
Israel’s Health Ministry announced on Saturday that four cases of the highly contagious South African COVID-19 variant have been discovered in Israel.
The disturbing development comes amid Israel’s aggressive vaccination drive, with Israeli Prime Minister...
Report: Iran plotted to assassinate US ambassador to South Africa
Iran reportedly considered assassinating the U.S. ambassador to South Africa in retaliation for the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani by the United States earlier this year, two...
Anti-Semitic incidents in South Africa fall to 15-year low
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in South Africa fell to a 15-year low, according to the country’s Jewish umbrella organization.
A total of 36 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in 2019, compared to 62 the previous year, according...
Jewish Agency chair Herzog visits volunteers helping children in South Africa
Jewish Agency for Israel chair Isaac Herzog visited Durban, South Africa, on Thursday, meeting with visiting agency volunteers who are assisting disadvantaged people as part of tikkun olam initiatives to “repair the world.”
He told a group...
Jewish graves vandalized in South Africa
The Jewish community in Strand, South Africa, filed a police complaint recently after four gravestones in the local Jewish cemetery were vandalized. Last week, two other Jewish cemeteries in the same district of Western...
Cape Town synagogue set ablaze, valuable Torah scrolls completely burnt
Torah scrolls worth more than half a million dollars were burned and damaged in a fire on Tuesday night at the Arthurs Road synagogue in Cape Town, South Africa, the congregation’s rabbi, Sam Thurgood,...