Jillian Segal will serve a three-year term and report directly to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Australia has appointed a special envoy to combat anti-Semitism amid concerns that the war in Gaza is fuelling community tensions. Jillian Segal, a Jewish lawyer and business leader, will engage with Jewish Australians, the wider Australian public, religious discrimination experts and the government on ways to tackle anti-Jewish sentiment, the Australian government...

Reyhanli, Turkey – Celine Abu al-Zumar is nearly four years old, and as she was about to hear for the first time in her life, her mother was near tears. “In less than three months, the dream became a reality,” Fatima al-Essa exclaimed. Celine was finally approved for cochlear implant surgery like her brother Aslan had been in April. Fatima, a 26-year-old Syrian living in Idlib, Syria, recalled...