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Who is Jon Ossoff, the Democrats' rising star who could be America's first Jewish president?

The Georgia senator boasts looks ‘like a Kennedy’ and a revered civil rights leader as a mentor, but has walked a political tightrope over criticism of Israel and the two-state solution

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US states threaten economic backlash over UK West Bank sanctions

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UN watchdog raises ‘serious proliferation concern’ over Iranian nuclear facilities

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Sir Michael Moritz: I am a card-carrying ‘October 8 Jew’

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RSY and LJY announce full Israel tour next summer for first time in three years

The youth movements have taken teenagers on cultural trips around Europe in the last two summers

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Charity Commission

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