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Daniel Ben-David

Daniel Ben-David

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

Latest from Daniel Ben-David

‘Leave a seat for a hostage at your Seder table’

Appeal to the community to remember those held captive in Gaza during the Festival of Freedom

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An empty chair for hostage Michel Nisenbaum (Photo: Jane Prinsley)

Hundreds gather outside Downing Street on Tuesday, 9 April, for a hostage vigil six months after October 7 (Credit: Daniel Ben-David)

Community united at vigil outside Downing Street for the hostages six months on

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Hella Pick, an “indefatigable and pioneering journalist of great repute" (Photo: AJR / Dr Bea Lewkowicz)

Tributes paid to pioneering journalist Hella Pick

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George Galloway's show, Have It Out With George Galloway, on Press TV (Credit: Youtube)

Guest on George Galloway’s new show appears to call for people to join Hezbollah-affiliated group

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Thousands protest in Israeli cities to condemn Netanyahu for failing to recover hostages

The rallies took place in some 50 locations across Israel and came just hours after the IDF returned the body of hostage Elad Katzir to Israel

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April 7, 2024 11:50

Protesters set a fire and hold flame torches during a demonstration calling for a hostages deal and against the Israeli government, Tel Aviv, April 6, 2024 (Credit: Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Remains of hostage Elad Katzir recovered and returned to Israel

Israeli media reports that he had been murdered not long after appearing in an Islamic Jihad video pleading for Israel to stop the war

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April 7, 2024 11:48

A man sits in a cage with portraits of 47-year-old Israeli hostage Elad Katzir, Tel Aviv, March 26, 2024 (Credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Only 1 in 4 British Muslims believe Hamas carried out rape and murder on October 7, according to survey

The survey is the largest of its kind since Hamas invaded Israel six months ago

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April 7, 2024 10:07

Protesters wearing fake blood make-up and holding placards take part in a demonstration "Rape is NOT resistance" in London, February 4, 2024 (Credit: HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Zionist dogs’ placards and support for the ‘resistance’: welcome to London’s Al Quds Day rally

Police estimate that 1,000 people attended the march and ten people were arrested

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April 5, 2024 21:03

Al Quds Day rally in London, 5 April, 2024

Square next to Liverpool Street station could be renamed after Sir Nicholas Winton

The stockbroker was instrumental in saving the lives of hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia

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April 5, 2024 14:20

Sir Nicholas Winton in front of a steam train with evacuees from Czechoslovakia, at Liverpool Street Station, on September 4, 2009. (Geoff Caddick/AFP via Getty Images)

EcoJudaism appoints its first ever executive director

Naomi Verber is channelling her passion for the environment into her professional life

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April 5, 2024 12:51

Naomi Verber will be EcoJudaism's new executive director, beginning in May

KLBD issues warning after non-kosher-for-Pesach matzah found in Morrisons Passover display

The blue boxes of Rakusen’s Matzos, unlike the red, are not prepared for Passover

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April 4, 2024 16:58

The 'Prepare for Passover' section in Stamford Hill Morrisons branch

Israeli defence ministry begins drafting Charedi Yeshiva students

Full-time Torah study is no longer officially recognised as a basis for not enlisting in the IDF

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April 3, 2024 17:36

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths block a road in Bnei Brak as they protest against their conscription into the IDF, April 1, 2024 (Credit: OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images)

Thousands will rely on food parcels this Pesach

The United Synagogue’s welfare department will be delivering to over 800 families

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April 3, 2024 15:06

Hannah and Hannah packing boxes for the US' Chesed Pesach appeal (Photo: United Synagogue)

IDF says more terrorists killed in recent al-Shifa hospital raid than in any other operation

The latest operation was the second time the IDF conducted a raid on al-Shifa hospital since the war began

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April 3, 2024 12:26

Damage in the area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital after the IDF withdrew on April 1, 2024 (Credit: /AFP via Getty Images)

Swastika sprayed on housing for Holocaust survivors in Belgium

The umbrella organisation overseeing Belgium’s Jewry said a strong response is required

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April 2, 2024 17:46

Swastika sprayed on housing for Holocaust survivors in Belgium

First Jewish High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire appointed

Nick Rubins takes on the oldest continuous secular office under the Crown

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April 1, 2024 14:39

(l-r) Rabbi Gili Zidkiyahu, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire Nick Rubins, Nottingham Liberal Synagogue president Paula Scott and Rabbi Charley Baginsky at Rubins' installation ceremony at NLS

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