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Title: Gareth Narunsky – Do I think [the RC] is going to solve everything? No. Best chance we have? Probably yes! (*from 1:48 mins)

Description: Morry Frenkel speaks with Gareth Narunsky, editor-in-chief of the Australian Jewish News, about the paper’s submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. Gareth describes the format of the submission; a compilation of more than 300 news stories, feature articles, opinion pieces and editorials, covering the period from just before the horrors of October 7th, 2023, until the present. He details three patterns the paper’s pieces fitted into, namely escalation, normalisation and response gap. Gareth also provides his views on the impact of the Royal Commission on the broader Australian community, his confidence in the way the commission is being run and the generally poor standard of journalism in reporting news on Israel, particularly since October, 2023.

Title: KAN English News Flash – July 01, 2026 at 2PM IDT (*from 20:29 mins)

The latest English language radio news bulletin from KAN, the Israeli Broadcasting Service.

Title:  Major (Ret) Rami Sherman –  We flew for one reason, to rescue life. And we did (*from 27:46 mins)

Description: Maurice Klein speaks with Major (Ret) Rami Sherman, veteran commando of Sayeret Maktal, the premier Tier-1 special forces and deep-reconnaissance unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  Major (Ret) Rami Sherman, fifty years ago was part  Operation Entebbe , code named Operation Thunderbolt,  when the IDF, undertook the long range counter terrorism mission of Operation Entebbe in Uganda,  that was retroactively named Operation Yonatan in honour of Yoni Netanyahu, the commanding officer who led the mission and most sadly was the only Sayerat Maktal fatality of the mission. The mission was launched in response to the hijacking of an Air France Airbus between the cities of Tel Aviv and Paris,  during a stopover in Athens. The audacious rescue operation by Israel in July 1976 , stunned the world when Sayeret Maktal commandos flew 4000 kilometres into the heart of Africa to rescue 102 Israeli citizens, Jews and the French crew held by Palestinian terrorists at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. With the support of JNF Australia, and Christian organizations: Friends of Israel, Bridges for Peace, Christians for Israel , Beersheba Vision and ICVEJ Australia , Rami is coming to Australia with his Operation Yonatan Mission, Entebbe 50 years On Remembering the Raid, Honouring the Heroes and will be speaking in Melbourne July 16th along with other major cities. The Melbourne information to book a ticket go to https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1605387 or it is on the Maurice Klein Facebook page.

Title:  Dr Joe Reich AM – If my father did not want to tell his story, what right have I got to tell it (*from 44:30 mins)

Description: Anita Frayman speaks with Dr Joe Reich AM, about his latest book titled “We Should Have Talked: the biography of my father”. Both his parents had suffered the worst of the horrors of the Holocaust. Neither spoke of the deep emotional pain that they suffered and continued to suffer throughout their lives. Some twenty years after his father Jacob died, Joe decided to watch a video recording that Jacob had made with Steven Spielberg’s “Shoah Foundation”. This was the beginning of Joe’s journey of discovery of his father’s story. In his book, Joe skilfully weaves together the details of his father’s testimony, both recorded and written, his findings from extensive historical research and the testimonies of other survivors.

Title: Gareth Narunsky – Tomorrow’s AJN Headlines today (*from 64:54 mins)

Description: We cross to Gareth Narunsky, the Australian Jewish News National Editor, for the headlines in this week’s edition of the paper.

Title: Sharon Kuper – L’Chaim - To Life Community Noticeboard (*from 66:50 mins)

Description: Sharon Kuper previews this coming week’s community events. To get WhatsApp notifications of Jewish Community Events go to https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvXuBBkF6SpCNMqANac6Y9

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