Jewish students in Sydney returned to school on Friday with a heightened security presence, days after police said they foiled a planned antisemitic attack in the city using a trailer filled with explosives.

Australia has been grappling with a spate of antisemitic attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war in late 2023.

Israel has urged Australia to step up efforts against rising antisemitism as threatening acts increase in the country. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese asserts that measures are in place to tackle increasing domestic terrorism,

Australian police suspect explosives stashed on Sydney’s outskirts were evidence of a deadly escalation in a campaign of antisemitic arson and graffiti crimes that has been waged in major cities for months,

Australian authorities say they are investigating links to overseas actors as they crack down on antisemitic violence.

Amnesty International Australia denounces Israel’s illegal ban of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) that comes

Amid a deterioration in relations between the Albanese government and Israel the Coalition wants to boost trade and investment ties with a fellow democracy.

Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel has given a sharp rebuke towards the Albanese government for contributing to the “shocking rise in anti-Semitism” after meetings with Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.

Sydney restaurateur Judith Lewis couldn’t save the mezuzah, a framed parchment inked with Hebrew prayers, that was hanging in her family’s café when arsonists set it alight in the early hours one Sunday in late October.

As Donald Trump reshapes America's relationship with Israel — from appointing right wing candidates as ambassadors to Israel and the UN and overturning sanctions on violent Jewish settlers — can the two-state solution survive?