Jacob Jaffa

Assistant News Editor

Jacob Jaffa is the JC's Assistant News Editor. His specialist topics include UK and US politics, the far-right and antisemitism in Europe. You can reach him on jjaffa@thejc.com

Latest from Jacob Jaffa

Green Party

Green candidate for Gorton and Denton by-election appears to compare Gaza War to Holocaust

Hannah Spencer seemed to suggest in a 2025 tweet, posted the day after Holocaust Memorial Day, that the message of ‘Never Again’ was incompatible with British arms exports to Israel

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Green Party's Gorton and Denton By-election Candidate Hannah Spencer makes a speech on January 30 (Photo by Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images)

Trucks carrying aid at the Rafah Crossing on January 27, 2026 (Getty Images)

Israel confirms reopening date for Rafah Crossing following recovery of final hostage

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 22, 2026 (Getty Images)

PA paid out $200m in pay-for-slay despite pledge to end scheme, US claims

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Boaz Bismuth MK leads a Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee meeting at the Knesset on January 27, 2026 (Flash90)

Charedi draft bill to face Knesset votes following committee approval

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EU set to list IRGC as terror group

The bloc is preparing to implement stringent new sanctions on Tehran following a brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests

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January 29, 2026 10:26

EU High Representative and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas talks to journalists upon arrival for a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on January 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

‘He refused to stand aside’: Netanyahu and Herzog hail bravery of Ran Gvili during final hostage’s funeral

The prime minister also announced that a new town, named Renanim, would be established in Ran’s honour close to his home of Meitar

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January 28, 2026 13:16

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the funeral of Ran Gvili in Meitar on January 28, 2026 (Flash90)

Former Biden aide calls Netanyahu ‘ungrateful’ over claim US arms embargo led to IDF deaths

The prime minister also took aim at Saudi Arabia during a rare press conference on Tuesday

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January 28, 2026 11:35

US President Biden meets Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House on July 25, 2024 (Getty Images)

Infant dies after ‘incident’ at unlicensed Tel Aviv nursery

The tragedy is the third death this month connected with unofficial daycares

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January 28, 2026 11:03

The cityscape of downtown Tel-Aviv at dusk (Getty Images)

Trump claims Iran ‘wants to talk’ as ‘armada’ arrives in Gulf

The US has diverted an aircraft carrier to regional waters, with the vessel entering ‘ghost mode’ to avoid targeting satellites

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January 27, 2026 15:52

US President Donald Trump gestures after holding a signing ceremony for the Board of Peace at World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 22, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland (Getty Images)

US to offer ‘amnesty’ to Hamas fighters who lay down their weapons

Prime Minister Netanyahu told the Knesset on Monday that ‘demilitarisation’ and not ‘reconstruction’ will be the next step in the Gaza peace process

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January 27, 2026 15:24

Hamas terrorists stand near an ICRC vehicle in Gaza City on November 2, 2025 (Getty Images)

Bennett files police complaint against Likud over ‘manipulated’ photo

The image shows the Blue and White chair, as well as Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, celebrating with Arab party leaders, but neither was present at the meeting in question

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January 27, 2026 13:14

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a march in Jerusalem supporting of the conscription of Charedim into the IDF on January 15, 2026 (Flash90)

Wounded Fauda star Idan Amedi participated in operation to recover Ran Gvili’s body

Amedi was badly injured in an explosion while serving in the combat engineering corps in 2024

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January 27, 2026 11:07

Israeli singer and actor Idan Amedi attends the funeral of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, whose body had been held captive by Hamas in Gaza since 2014, at the Kfar Saba military cemetery on November 11, 2025 (Flash90)

‘The whole nation is with you’: Ran Gvili’s family celebrate and mourn the return of Israel’s final hostage

Ran’s parents, Itzik and Talik, hailed his selfless sacrifice on October 7 as they met his coffin, which returned from Gaza draped in the Israeli flag

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January 27, 2026 10:43

Itzik Gvili meets the coffin containing his son Ran's body at the IDF's Nahal Base on January 26, 2026 (Israel Police)

Police arrest 17 suspects linked to Israeli football club in match-fixing probe

Those detained include current players and a group of senior team officials

1 min read

January 26, 2026 15:46

A football field on a sunny day (Getty Images)

IDF recovers body of final hostage Ran Gvili after 843 days

The discovery of the late police sergeant’s remains mean that, after more than two years, all of the hostages have been liberated from Hamas

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January 26, 2026 13:54

IDF soldiers recover the body of Ran Gvili, the final hostage, in Gaza City on January 26, 2026 (Telegram/AmitSegal)

Submarine affair enquiry finds ‘systemic failings’ that ‘endangered state security’

The procurement of German-made vessels under the previous Netanyahu-led government is at the centre of a major corruption probe

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January 26, 2026 13:02

Prime Minister Netanyahu emerges from a submarine during a visit to the military port of Haifa on November 17, 2009 (GPO)

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Jacob Jaffa

Latest from Jacob Jaffa

Green candidate for Gorton and Denton by-election appears to compare Gaza War to Holocaust

Israel confirms reopening date for Rafah Crossing following recovery of final hostage

PA paid out $200m in pay-for-slay despite pledge to end scheme, US claims

Charedi draft bill to face Knesset votes following committee approval

More from Jacob Jaffa

EU set to list IRGC as terror group

‘He refused to stand aside’: Netanyahu and Herzog hail bravery of Ran Gvili during final hostage’s funeral

Former Biden aide calls Netanyahu ‘ungrateful’ over claim US arms embargo led to IDF deaths

Infant dies after ‘incident’ at unlicensed Tel Aviv nursery

Trump claims Iran ‘wants to talk’ as ‘armada’ arrives in Gulf

US to offer ‘amnesty’ to Hamas fighters who lay down their weapons

Bennett files police complaint against Likud over ‘manipulated’ photo

Wounded Fauda star Idan Amedi participated in operation to recover Ran Gvili’s body

‘The whole nation is with you’: Ran Gvili’s family celebrate and mourn the return of Israel’s final hostage

Police arrest 17 suspects linked to Israeli football club in match-fixing probe

IDF recovers body of final hostage Ran Gvili after 843 days

Submarine affair enquiry finds ‘systemic failings’ that ‘endangered state security’