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Don't miss the latest Yiddish Report with Alex Dafner:Reported anti-Semitic incidents in Australia have risen by 10% to 230 in 2017, according to an annual report published by the Executive Council of Australian Jews and are mainly attributed to the growth of extremist white supremacist groups in Australia and overseas. - Prof Andrew Markus of Monash Uni has proffered two reasons why the number of Jews in Australia fell by some 6,000 individuals in the 2016 census, down to 116,600 and he puts it down to the end of a small wave of Jewish migration from the former Soviet Union and Sth Africa, but also the change to the religion question on the 2016 census, which placed no religion at the top of listed religions. - Israels new Ambassador to Australia, Mark Sofer had a very busy first week of activities, which included meetings with the Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove, an ECAJ conference and a celebration held in the Parliament of Australia in honour of the 70th anniversary of the historic UN vote to partition Palestine on the 29th Nov 1947. - Whilst the Labor Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews is preparing an official visit to Israel shortly, the Liberal Opposition Leader Mathew Guy has promised that if he is successful in the elections due in a years time, he would open a Business and Trade office in West Jerusalem, to enhance the States export opportunities and further expose