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Jacob Jaffa

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

Medicine

Israeli medics’ union comes out against death penalty bill

Dr Yossi Walfisch, chair of the IMA’s medical ethics committee, instructed doctors to refuse to facilitate capital sentences

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A meeting of Knesset National Security Committee on November 19, 2025 (Flash90)
Israeli soldiers during an army raid in the West Bank town of Tubas, November 26, 2025 (Flash90)

IDF launches ‘broad’ counter-terror operation in West Bank

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X owner Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2025 (Getty Images)

France investigating X’s Grok AI bot after it repeated Holocaust denial

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Defence Minister Israel Katz (L) and IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir (R)

Netanyahu steps in to cool public row between Katz and Zamir

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Slain hostage Dror Or returned to Israel after 780 days

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November 26, 2025 10:16
Dror Or (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

PIJ confirms body of one of three remaining hostages has been located

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November 25, 2025 12:00
(L-R) Dror Or, Ran Gvili, and Sudthisak Rinthalak (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Charedi child molester returns to court seeking shorter sentence in politically-charged hearing

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November 24, 2025 15:54
Nechemya Weberman was convicted a molesting a child in his care in 2012 (YouTube/NBC)

Hostage and Missing Families Forum to close Tel Aviv office

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November 24, 2025 13:43
A door bearing posters of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, depicting the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip by Hamas (Getty Images)

Trump confirms US will ban Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terror group

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November 24, 2025 11:08
Members of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood and opposition parties during a demonstration to protest against Israeli 'violations' at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on July 31, 2015 (Getty Images)

IDF strike kills Hezbollah’s chief of staff amid fragile ceasefire

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November 24, 2025 10:27
Haytham Ali Tabatabai (Image: X)

Israeli medics team up with tech giant Nvidia to create ‘ChatGPT for genetics’

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November 21, 2025 11:24
Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, USA (Getty Images)

‘Today you are heroes’: Trump holds White House reception for freed hostages

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November 21, 2025 10:56
A group of former hostages and their families with US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff (White House)

Eurovision set to change rules following Israel’s public vote success

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November 21, 2025 10:14
Yuval Raphael performs during the rehearsal ahead of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final on May 17, 2025 in Basel, Switzerland (Getty Images)

Israeli actor Shira Haas cast in Netflix adaptation of Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil

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November 20, 2025 14:49
Shira Haas attends a screening of Captain America: Brave New World on February 13, 2025 in New York City (Getty Images)

Pro-Palestine activists found guilty of harassing Labour MP have convictions overturned

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November 20, 2025 12:54
Alex Davies-Jones MP (Alex Davies-Jones For Pontypridd)

‘Pay-for-slay’ may still be operational despite PA guarantees

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November 19, 2025 15:07
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas arrives to meet France's President Emmanuel Macron at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on November 11, 2025 (Getty Images)
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