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Daniel Ben-David

Daniel Ben-David

Daniel Ben-David is a reporter and community correspondent for the Jewish Chronicle. You can reach him at dbendavid@thejc.com

Latest from Daniel Ben-David

Israel Hamas War 2023

Three generations of one family who paid a price to protect Israel

Edan Kleiman, who was paralysed by Hamas, is now the chairman of Beit Halochem

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Edan Klaiman

High school RE teacher Ronan Preastuin (Credit: Social media)

School teacher reported to police for glorifying Hamas as ‘defenders of humanity’

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Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron speaks during a parliamentary meeting to mark Yom HaShoah (Credit: Holocaust Education Trust)

David Cameron pledges to build ‘vital’ Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre alongside Parliament

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Jewish Care is encouraging people to have honest and compassionate conversations about their end-of-life wishes (Photo: Jewish Care)

Jewish Care encourages ‘honest and compassionate’ conversations about end-of-life wishes

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Community stands ‘united, proud and resilient’ on Yom HaShoah

A ceremony was held next to the Houses of Parliament

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May 7, 2024 12:55

School choirs join members of the Shabbaton Choir and the London Cantorial Singers at the Yom HaShoah UK 2024 ceremony (Photo: Meron Persey Photography)

Anti-Israel encampments erected in Cambridge and Oxford

Organisers target universities and the Pitt Rivers museum

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May 6, 2024 14:27

Pro-Palestinian encampment on the lawn of the Kings College, University of Cambridge (Photo: social media)

Britain’s ‘liberal imam’ says politicians should be ‘called out’ for having Jewish family members

Taj Hargey said Sir Keir Starmer having Jewish family members is why he’s ‘pussyfooting’ on the Israel-Hamas conflict

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May 6, 2024 10:03

Dr Taj Hargey (Credit: OIBI YouTube)

Senior lecturer says it is ‘funny’ and ‘fake news’ to claim Hamas carried out sex crimes

Dr Ahmet Orun is employed by De Montfort University in Leicester

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May 3, 2024 17:29

Protesters demonstrating against Hamas's sexual violence hold placards outside the BBC headquarters in February (Credit: Getty Images)

Goldsmiths concedes to demands of pro-Palestinian encampment

The university said it would “review” the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism

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May 3, 2024 17:13

Students occupy the Goldsmiths University library on 1 May, 2024, barricading themselves in the building and hanging signs that read 'From the river to the sea' and 'Shut it down for Palestine.' (Photo: Goldsmiths for Palestine)

European Youth Games to attract teens from around the world

The inaugural event is set to be the UK’s largest international Jewish sporting event this year

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May 3, 2024 16:00

Hundreds of teenagers from around the world will be coming to the UK for the European Maccabi Youth Games (Credit: Maccabi GB)

Bagels banned by anti-Israel protestors at UCLA

The protestors also demanded vegan, gluten-free, hot food

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May 2, 2024 14:04

A US Police officer stands guard as a demonstrator holds a placard reading "Free Palestine" at the pro-Palestinian encampment set up on on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (Credit: ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

Neo-Nazi who named his baby Adolf to be released from prison early

Adam Thomas had been given a six-year sentence for belonging to proscribed neo-Nazi group National Action

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May 2, 2024 11:47

Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas in a photo that was shown to jurors during their trial

Synagogue invites other faiths to share in its Seder

Wimbledon Synagogue opened its doors to over 100 guests

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May 1, 2024 13:38

Rabbi Adrian Schell with faith and civic leaders at Wimbledon Synagogue (Credit: Wimbledon Synagogue)

Who was Alan Overton, the unsung hero who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children

Alan Overton was a shopkeeper in Rugby and Christadelphian who believed in not calling attention to one’s own good deeds

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May 1, 2024 09:24

Left: Alan Overton with the boys of Little Thorn hostel in Rugby, with house mother Mrs Sperber, Right: Alan Overton

Young people are carrying the torch of Holocaust testimony

Generations 2 Generations encourages descendants of survivors and refugees to tell the stories of their ancestors

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April 26, 2024 16:18

Lia Bratt with her presentation on her "Papa", Ivor Perl BEM (Credit: Generations2Generations)

Sheryl Sandberg film details horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on October 7

The film was first shown during a screening in New York on Thursday and can now be watched online

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April 26, 2024 13:16

Visitors pay their respect to the victims of October 7 at the Nova Music Festival site sixth months after the massacre (Getty Images)

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