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

Israel

Guinness World Records no longer accepting submissions from Israel or Palestinian territories

Israeli NGO Matnat Chaim had hoped an upcoming gathering of 2,000 kidney donors would make it into next year's Guinness Book of World Records, but was denied.

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The entrance to the Guinness World of Records museum in Copenhagen, Denmark (Getty Images)

Freed hostage Alon Ohel arrives home in Moshav Lavon, Israel, on October 24, 2025 (Flash90)

‘I choose life’: Ex hostage Alon Ohel reveals brutal treatment at the hands of Hamas captors

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(L-R) Sudthisak Rinthalak and Ran Gvili (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

‘Small remains’ returned by Hamas not linked to either hostage still in Gaza

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Israeli security forces near the site of a car ramming attack, near the West Bank city of Hebron, December 1, 2025 (Flash90)

Three IDF soldiers wounded in West Bank knife and ramming attacks

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Uefa held meetings with pro-Palestine campaigners ahead of vote on Israel ban despite Gaza ceasefire

Executives reportedly discussed with activists how to enforce a boycott against the Jewish state

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December 2, 2025 11:42

The Israeli national football team ahead their 2026 World Cup qualifier against Norway, in Debrecen, Hungary, on March 25, 2025 (Getty Images)

Israeli scientists make breakthrough in search for ‘Holy Grail’ cells which slow ageing

Professor Alon Monsonego team discovered that ‘super centenarians’ in Japan displayed a much higher number of a specific type of cell, which control inflammation and help fight disease

3 min read

December 2, 2025 10:37

Professor Alon Monsonego (Ben-Gurion University)

Nazi camp doctor dubbed ‘Angel of Death’ owned medical lab while living openly in Argentina, new documents reveal

An Argentine judge even denied a West German extradition request for Josef Mengele on the grounds that the war criminal could face ‘political persecution’

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December 1, 2025 14:20

(L-R) Josef Mengele circa 1940, before his involvement in the death camps, and Mengele photographed again around 1950, just after fleeing to Argentina (Getty Images)

Israeli police arrest dozens amid probe into major crime families

Officers raided homes in northern Israel and the West Bank

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December 1, 2025 11:37

Commander of the Lahav 433 Unit, Major General Meni Benjamin, in Jerusalem on November 30, 2025 (Flash90)

Three IDF soldiers questioned over West Bank shooting of ‘terror suspects’

The IDF claimed that the two men killed had terror links and made ‘suspicious movements’ after emerging from a building with their hands up

2 min read

December 1, 2025 11:34

Two Palestinian men in Jenin, accused of being linked to a West Bank terror network, emerge from a building with their hands up, shortly before they are shot by IDF soldiers (X/AlGhadTV)

Trump could sanction Israeli officials if Netanyahu pardon denied, claims minister

Opposition figures have called for the prime minister to admit his alleged guilt and resign before any decision is made

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December 1, 2025 10:13

Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman attends an Interior committee meeting at the Knesset on June 3, 2025 (Flash90)

Jailed neo-Nazi who ‘worshipped Hitler’ to be released early in prison overflow scheme

Self-styled priest James Costello exchanged letters with a convicted child sex offender and terrorist and wrote his own ‘bible’ advocating a war between races

1 min read

November 28, 2025 15:58

Latest version of Charedi draft bill will maintain service exemption for yeshiva students

The bill, written by a Likued MK, will also allow draft dodgers to ‘age out’ of sanctions following threats of coalition resignations from the Charedi parties

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November 28, 2025 12:40

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth, chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee (Flash 90)

Six IDF soldiers wounded during counter-terror raid in southern Syria

Syrian state media reported that 10 people were killed in retaliatory airstrikes

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November 28, 2025 11:26

An Israeli army humvee vehicle moves past uninstalled blocks in a concrete barrier along the dividing line with the buffer zone with Syria in the Golan Heights on July 19, 2025 (Getty Images)

Australia lists IRGC as ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ after antisemitic arson spate

Canberra’s intelligence service found ‘credible evidence’ to link a series of anti-Jewish attacks to Tehran

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November 27, 2025 13:51

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives for the welcome ceremony of the Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at Admiralty House on November 12, 2025 in Sydney, Australia (Getty Images)

Sinn Féin hosts anti-Israel band Bob Vylan despite police probe into ‘death to IDF’ concert

The band was hailed as taking a ‘very strong stand’ against the ‘genocide’ in Gaza, by Eoin Ó Broin TD

2 min read

November 27, 2025 13:05

Bob Vylan with Sinn Féin TD Mark Ward (Image: X/Mark Ward)

Progressive Jews raise alarm over new US ambassador to Hungary’s links to Israeli far-right

Ben Landa is awaiting Senate confirmation but some Jewish groups are concerned that he may not provide space for disagreement over Israel

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November 27, 2025 11:02

The US embassy in Budapest (Getty Images)

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Jacob Jaffa

Latest from Jacob Jaffa

Guinness World Records no longer accepting submissions from Israel or Palestinian territories

‘I choose life’: Ex hostage Alon Ohel reveals brutal treatment at the hands of Hamas captors

‘Small remains’ returned by Hamas not linked to either hostage still in Gaza

Three IDF soldiers wounded in West Bank knife and ramming attacks

More from Jacob Jaffa

Uefa held meetings with pro-Palestine campaigners ahead of vote on Israel ban despite Gaza ceasefire

Israeli scientists make breakthrough in search for ‘Holy Grail’ cells which slow ageing

Nazi camp doctor dubbed ‘Angel of Death’ owned medical lab while living openly in Argentina, new documents reveal

Israeli police arrest dozens amid probe into major crime families

Three IDF soldiers questioned over West Bank shooting of ‘terror suspects’

Trump could sanction Israeli officials if Netanyahu pardon denied, claims minister

Jailed neo-Nazi who ‘worshipped Hitler’ to be released early in prison overflow scheme

Latest version of Charedi draft bill will maintain service exemption for yeshiva students

Six IDF soldiers wounded during counter-terror raid in southern Syria

Australia lists IRGC as ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ after antisemitic arson spate

Sinn Féin hosts anti-Israel band Bob Vylan despite police probe into ‘death to IDF’ concert

Progressive Jews raise alarm over new US ambassador to Hungary’s links to Israeli far-right