Daniel Ben-David

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

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Obituary

Noted philanthropist and Kindertransport refugee Sir Erich Reich passes away at 87

He was knighted in 2010 for decades of charitable work

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Noted philanthropist and Kindertransport refugee Sir Erich Reich passes away at 87

Yair Lapid pulls out of COP27 after Netanyahu lead in election

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Israelis protest against head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on October 29, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ????? ???????? ???? ????? ?? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ??? ??? ?????? ??????

Final polls ahead of Israeli elections show Netanyahu one seat short of majority

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Israeli first responders gather outside the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on October 29, 2022, following an attack in Hebron. - A gun attack in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron wounded five people, including four Israelis and a Palestinian, with the assailant shot dead, Israel's emergency services and the army said. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

One dead and four wounded in West Bank terror shooting; assailant neutralised

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Top Russian security official apologises after deputy dubs Chabad a 'cult'

The comments caused widespread distress amongst the country's Jewish leaders

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October 28, 2022 18:00

Russian Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev speaks during a trilateral summit between the US, Israel and Russia, in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

President Biden commemorates anniversary of Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting

The 2018 attack was the deadliest ever on the Jewish community in the United States

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October 28, 2022 14:42

PITTSBURGH, PA - OCTOBER 31: Mourners visit the memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue on October 31, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eleven people were killed in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on October 27. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Taliban to allow restoration of historic synagogue in western Afghanistan

The building, which eight years ago served as an educational centre mostly for local children and women, has fallen into disrepair

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October 28, 2022 11:23

An Afghan boy stands and inside and old Jewish synagogue undergoing rennovation in the old part of Herat city north east of Kabul, 17 September 2007. The conservation of historical places is part of a wider rehabilitation project implemented by the historical Cities Support Programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, with generous support from the German federal foreign Office. The Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme (HCP) promotes the conservation and re-use of buildings and public spaces in historic cities in the Muslim World. AFP PHOTO/MASSOUD Hossaini (Photo credit should read MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Kanye claims he lost $2bn in one day after backlash to antisemitic remarks

The music star's net worth is reportedly less than half of what it was a week ago

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October 28, 2022 09:10

Kanye claims he lost $2bn in one day after backlash to antisemitic remarks

Ort UK raises £350,000 for Ukraine aid in annual dinner

Money will support Ukrainian students still in the country or living overseas

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October 27, 2022 09:43

Ort UK raises £350,000 for Ukraine aid in annual dinner

Russian Chief Rabbi furious as top security official dubs Chabad a 'cult'

Ukraine requires 'desatanisation' writes Russian Security Council member

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October 26, 2022 15:44

Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar attends the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2021. - Russia celebrates the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

Brooklyn Yeshiva to pay $8M fine over 'pervasive culture of fraud and greed'

Among the academy’s crimes were paying staff off the books, requesting non-existent meal reimbursements, and subsidizing parties with federal grants

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October 26, 2022 10:49

Brooklyn Yeshiva to pay $8M fine over 'pervasive culture of fraud and greed'

Over 80,000 sign petition for Adidas to cut ties with Kanye West

Friends star David Schwimmer and the the Anti-Defamation League are among those calling for ties to be severed

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October 24, 2022 16:44

Over 80,000 sign petition for Adidas to cut ties with Kanye West

Israel to create $18 million Albert Einstein museum in Jerusalem

Einstein's entire archive will be digitally accessible including original manuscripts

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October 24, 2022 14:57

1933: German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Neo-Nazi group hangs banner in support of Kanye

The 'Goyim Defence League' hung banners from a busy freeway in Los Angeles

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October 24, 2022 12:00

Neo-Nazi group hangs banner in support of Kanye

Human rights course in Geneva taught by anti-Israel UN commissioner

The course will focus on holding Member States accountable on human rights, and will include “anecdotes from the experience of the lecturers”

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October 21, 2022 15:49

Paris, FRANCE: Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing attends a press conference, 29 January 2007 in Paris, at the "Ministry of Crisis Housing", based in a building occupied since the end of December 2006 by three associations: MACAQ (Movement for Cultural and Artistic District Activities), Black Thursday and DAL (Right For a House). Kothari, who was in the capital to attend an OCDE meeting, prolonged his visit non officially to "better understand", he said, the housing situation in France. AFP PHOTO BERTRAND GUAY (Photo credit should read BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)

UN Commission of Inquiry declares Israeli occupation illegal, seeks ICJ opinion

The 28-page report makes no mention of Hamas, terrorism, or rockets fired at Israeli civilians

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October 21, 2022 14:17

A French member of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) stand to attention as he holds up the United Nations flag during a ceremony for the French contingent in their base in the southern town of Deir Kifa on March 28, 2012. France is planning to reduce its UNFIL force members by some 400 soldiers. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)

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Daniel Ben-David

Latest from Daniel Ben-David

Noted philanthropist and Kindertransport refugee Sir Erich Reich passes away at 87

Yair Lapid pulls out of COP27 after Netanyahu lead in election

Final polls ahead of Israeli elections show Netanyahu one seat short of majority

One dead and four wounded in West Bank terror shooting; assailant neutralised

More from Daniel Ben-David

Top Russian security official apologises after deputy dubs Chabad a 'cult'

President Biden commemorates anniversary of Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting

Taliban to allow restoration of historic synagogue in western Afghanistan

Kanye claims he lost $2bn in one day after backlash to antisemitic remarks

Ort UK raises £350,000 for Ukraine aid in annual dinner

Russian Chief Rabbi furious as top security official dubs Chabad a 'cult'

Brooklyn Yeshiva to pay $8M fine over 'pervasive culture of fraud and greed'

Over 80,000 sign petition for Adidas to cut ties with Kanye West

Israel to create $18 million Albert Einstein museum in Jerusalem

Neo-Nazi group hangs banner in support of Kanye

Human rights course in Geneva taught by anti-Israel UN commissioner

UN Commission of Inquiry declares Israeli occupation illegal, seeks ICJ opinion