Australian Ambassador Ralph King will have to get up extra early this coming Friday morning for the annual Anzac Day ceremony, which commemorates the dawn landing in Gallipoli on the Turkish coast on April 25, 1915, by members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in what was the first major military action fought by the Anzacs in the First World War. In Israel, Anzac Day is hosted in Jerusalem at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery on Mount Scopus by the Australian ambassador and Australian Embassy staff. Miriam Adelson, a billionaire philanthropist, wore a dress with a meaningful message to the presentation of new US Ambassador Mike Huckabee's credentials at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. The dress has a vertical gold print in Hebrew along the back with words from Psalm 137: 'If I forget thee, O Jerusalem...'. The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem is co-sponsoring a beauty contest for aging Holocaust survivors, which has been made into an award-winning new documentary, Miss Holocaust Survivor: A Beauty Contest that Celebrates Life. One Israel Fund recently participated in an important security conference attended by security heads from regional and local municipalities across Judea and Samaria, officials from the Defense Ministry, and representatives from the IDF in charge of security in the area. At its next meeting in Jerusalem, on April 28, the Jewish Historical Society of England (Israel Branch) will host Rabbi Meir Salasnik, the former rabbi of Bushey United Synagogue, who will speak on 'The First Duke of Sussex (1773-1843) and the Jewish Community.' Actress Jane Fonda mounted a campaign for the release of Ida Nudel, the famous refusenik, who finally arrived in Israel in 1987.
Original article source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-851121
Source Id: 2025-04-698254132