Here is a calendar of upcoming events, up and down the country. Some are organized by us, others by like-minded organizations and groups.
KEEP YOUR DIARY FREE!
YOU ARE INVITED TO A FAREWELL RECEPTION FOR
THE AMBASSADOR OF ISRAEL
DR ITZHAK GERBERG
On Thursday, November 12 at 8 pm
Riccarton Centre
199 Clarence St
Riccarton, Christchurch.
Light refreshments will be served.
Dress Code: Business Casual or semi-formal
The Auckland public Hanukkah celebration will take place on Sunday 13 December from 4:30pm until 8:30pm at Orakei Domain, Okahu Bay, next to the playground.
Expect a fun event: live music, food trucks, Kosher Sufganiyot, Israeli dancing, Hanukkiah raffle, and great ambience.
The celebration will conclude with the lighting of the Hanukkah candles ceremony.
CHRISTCHURCH MARCH GATHERING: WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
2:30 pm, Sunday, March 21
Hau Room
Halswell Centre
341 Halswell Road, Christchurch
New Zealand friends of Israel invites you to a fun quiz that will challenge your knowledge of Jews, Judaism, and Israel.
Admission: Bring a plate of finger food, please no pork or seafood products.
CHRISTCHURCH: IN THE WAKE OF THE LATEST GAZA-ISRAEL CONFLICT, WHAT’S NEXT?
20 June 2021, 2.30pm
Halswell Community Centre, 328 Halswell Rd, Christchurch.
GPS coordinates: -43.581902, 172.568741
- Why did the police storm the Temple Mount?
- What is Sheikh Jerrah?
- How was the conflict conducted by both sides?
- What was the reaction in NZ to the conflict?
- Why was there no public rally in support of Israel in Christchurch?
Please bring a plate of finger food. No seafood or pork based products, thanks.
There will be a presentation of a petition, urging our government to declare all wings of Hamas to be terrorist organisations.
Note the change of time, as Parliament Staff will only let us use a sound system at certain times this Thursday, so we’ve accordingly adjusted the start time of our event.
Please gather at the new time of 12.30pm at Parliament Grounds.
Please bring your Israel & NZ Flags and any placards in support of Israel!
#nzstandswithisrael
The DCM at the Embassy, Yael Holan has asked if we would like to “adopt” a family of hostages to raise awareness of their plight.
They are the Bibas family.
Kfir, Ariel and Shiri Bibas, and presumably their father Yarden were all kidnapped from Nir Oz, an Israeli kibbutz that was devastated when it came under attack by Hamas militants on October 7. The attackers murdered more than a quarter of the community and seized scores of others, as they fired at people’s homes, looted and destroyed what they could.
The armed wing of Hamas has claimed, without providing evidence, that Kfir, his 4-year-old brother, Ariel, and their mother, Shiri, were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said they had been killed in earlier Israeli bombing.
Kfir was nine months old when he was abducted, he will turn one on January 18.
We are proposing to hold a special meeting for them on Thursday, January 18.
Hao Room, Halswell Centre, 341 Halswell Rd, Christchurch.