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ISRAEL AT WAR

IDF advancing into Lebanon to prevent ‘direct fire’ on Israel

Hezbollah has been launching rocket attacks on northern Israel in retaliation for Israel’s strikes on Iran

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Israeli soldiers are seen along the border with Lebanon in northern Israel on March 2, 2026 (Flash90)

Watch: IDF troops in Lebanon read the Megillah for Purim

Israeli soldiers were filmed marking Purim on the front line

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

IDF troops on the border of Lebanon (Image: Getty Images)

Trump claims Iran War ‘ahead of schedule’ but could last four weeks

The president also suggested that he would be willing to put US boots on the ground, but that the war effort ‘probably doesn’t need them’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

US President Trump speaks during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 2, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran had enough enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs, claims Witkoff

The US special envoy told the media that Iranian negotiators had boasted openly of the Islamic Republic’s atomic capabilities during crunch talks in Geneva

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

US special envoy Steve Witkoff (C) and Jared Kushner (L) hold a meeting with Oman's Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi (R) in Geneva amid indirect talks with Iranian officials (Getty Images)

Xavi Simons of Tottenham Hotspur and Oscar Hojlund of Eintracht Frankfurt during the match on January 28 (Photo: Getty)

Sport

Spurs fined after fans’ ‘disgusting’ Nazi salutes in Germany

By Ben Conway

1 min read

Zack Polanski said the the US 'dragging the UK into another illegal war does not make us any more safe' (Photo: ITV/X)

Green Party

Green Party calls for UK to cut ties with ‘rogue states’ US and Israel

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Al Quds Day demonstrators march through central London in 2014, five years before Hezbollah was proscribed in the UK as a terror organisation The yellow flag of Hezbollah can be seen on the left. There is no suggestion any of the individuals pictured support Hezbollah or hold or have expressed antisemitic views (Photo: Getty)

Iran

Al Quds Day: Ban pro-Iran ‘carnival of Jew-hate’ in London, MPs urge

Annual march should be cancelled over ramped-up tensions in the Middle East, Labour, Tory and Reform politicians believe

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

Israeli soldiers patrol a street during a military operation in the Askar refugee camp in eastern Nablus, West Bank, March 2, 2026 (Credit: Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP via Getty Images)

IDF

Israel calls up 100,000 reservists in preparation for prolonged war with Iran

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Iran

Israel in talks with Gulf states after Iran strikes civilian areas

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Bernard Lewis, pictured in 1983 (Courtesy)

Death

Bernard Lewis, Jewish founder of River Island, dies aged 100

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Chief Rabbi: We hope for new miracle of Purim in war with Iran and pray for those who seek a safer, peaceful world

IDF begins ‘offensive campaign’ in Lebanon after Hezbollah rocket attacks

Khamenei’s death: How the Islamic Republic’s fall could reshape the Middle East

Mixed reception for plan for schools to become part of trusts

Woman killed and more than 20 injured in Iranian missile strike on Tel Aviv

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Operation Roaring Lion

More Americans will ‘likely’ die as Iran War continues, says Trump

The US president indicated that the fighting could continue for weeks, saying: ‘It’s always been a four-week process

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

US President Donald Trump (C) oversees 'Operation Epic Fury' with (L-R) Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles at Mar-a-Lago on February 28, 2026 in Palm Beach, Florida (Getty Images)

New York State

Anti-Israel climate in Mamdani’s New York a warning to all Jews, says antisemitism expert

‘Darker forces – Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood’ helped fuel the radicalisation of US campuses and wider public life, David Harris tells JC audience

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

David Harris speaking at South Hampstead Synagogue at JC event (With courtesy)

Iran

US will ‘never’ allow Iran to build nuclear bomb, claims Trump in State of the Union address

The president’s speech, which lasted a record 107 minutes, was interrupted multiple times as he was heckled by Democratic lawmakers

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

US President Trump delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the Capitol on February 24, 2026 (Getty Images)

Aliyah

‘I won’: 96-year-old Auschwitz survivor makes aliyah surrounded by four generations of her family

Charlotte Roth officially became an Israeli citizen at a ceremony in Tel Aviv

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

Charlotte Roth, pictured with some of her family, on the day she officially became an Israeli citizen (Picture: Nefesh b'Nefesh)

World news

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Isralei airstrike (Photo: Getty)

Mossad

Israel spent years hacking ‘nearly every traffic camera in Tehran’ in run-up to strike on Khamenei

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Police said no one was injured but they found evidence of gunfire and damage to the synagogue (Photo: Toronto Police Department)

Canada

Toronto police investigate ‘targeted’ hate crime after gunshots fired at synagogue

By Menachem Wecker

1 min read

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gestures as he delivers a statement (Credit: Jordan Pettitt - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Operation Roaring Lion

Government U-turns on allowing American access to British bases

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

The IDF announces all senior terrorist leaders of Iran’s Axis of Terror have been eliminated (Credit: X)

IDF

Who were the seven top Iranian officials killed alongside Khamenei?

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Iranians gathered in Westminster on Day two of Iran war (Image: Elliott Franks)

Operation Roaring Lion

‘Thank you Israel,’ chant thousands of Iranian dissidents in London

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

An RAF Typhoon aircraft returns to berth at RAF Akrotiri following a strike mission on January 12, 2024 (Getty Images)

Iran

RAF base hit by drone strike in Cyprus

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Operation Roaring Lion

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president at Natanz uranium enrichment facility (Getty)

Former Iran president who wanted Israel ‘wiped off the map’ killed in air strike

Notorious hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad among many high-profile regime figures eliminated in Israel-US campaign

By JC Reporter

1 min read

‘I cried, I cheered and I cried again’: London’s Iranians and Jews share hope and joy Half of Iran’s ballistic launchers destroyed, Israeli officials say

UK News

Jewish schools

Court dismisses appeal over VAT on school fees involving Charedi boy

Appeal Court told that tax policy could lead to collapse of small independent religious schools

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

The Court of Appeal has ruled against a legal challenge against the government's imposition of VAT on private schools (Image: Getty)

Antisemitism on campus

Schools roadshow helps Jewish students to be their proud selves at university

I-gnite’s scheme prepares sixth-formers for campus life

By Ben Conway

3 min read

Jonathan Sacerdoti, Karen Cinnamon from ‘Your Jewish Life’, and Dov Forman in conversation with students at I-gnite’s 2025 Pre-Uni Prep (Photo: Danielle Manson)

Ayatollah Khameini

Student society gives advice on ‘collective grief’ after Khamenei killed

A charity under investigation for its alleged links to the regime also held a vigil for the Ayatollah, who was killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

The Absocs advised students on their mental health during this period (Photo: Instagram)

Israel strikes Iran

Be vigilant about security after outbreak of war with Iran, community advised

CST warns conflict in Middle East brings heightened risk

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

Be vigilant about security after outbreak of war with Iran, community advised

Opinion

If the Greens’ YouGov surge is real, Britain is in deep trouble

There is a darker issue for Jews, which is related to the ease with which Polanski can dump one set of supposed beliefs for another

By Stephen Pollard

5 min read

Iain Dale and Zack Polanski onn LBC (Image: YouTube)

By Marc J Sievers

How Iran’s missile strikes reunited Gulf states against Tehran

The Islamic Republic may have hoped the attacks would force its Arab neighbours to demand the US end the military campaign with Israel. Instead, it has stiffened their resolve

5 min read

By Stephen Pollard

Joy and hope for people of Iran – but Keir Starmer has made Britain a spineless irrelevance

In refusing to use force, Prime Minister reveals a mindset unable to deal with reality of evil regimes

3 min read

By Lauren Dagan Amos

Modi in Jerusalem: India, Israel and the making of a strategic alliance

From defence cooperation to free trade and regional connectivity projects, the partnership is expanding in scope and ambition

4 min read

By Stephen Pollard

The Greens’ dangerous mainstreaming of sectarian Muslim politics

As troubling as the election irregularities in Gorton and Denton are, the real story is how the mobilisation of anti-Israel communities can shape British elections

3 min read