Jacob Jaffa

Jacob Jaffa is the JC's Digital 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

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West Bank

Three IDF soldiers wounded in West Bank knife and ramming attacks

Both attackers were fatally shot while attempting further violence

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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)

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

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

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Professor Alon Monsonego (Ben-Gurion University)

Israeli scientists make breakthrough in search for cells which could help us live to 120

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(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)

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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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November 27, 2025 10:33

A meeting of Knesset National Security Committee on November 19, 2025 (Flash90)

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

Troops are working to prevent terrorist infrastructure from taking root as focus shifts to the territory following the Gaza ceasefire

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November 27, 2025 10:16

Israeli soldiers during an army raid in the West Bank town of Tubas, November 26, 2025 (Flash90)

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

The AI model claimed that the gas chambers were used to combat typhus in concentration camps, closely resembling remarks made by proven Holocaust denier David Irving

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November 26, 2025 11:42

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)

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Jacob Jaffa

Latest from Jacob Jaffa

Three IDF soldiers wounded in West Bank knife and ramming attacks

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

Israeli scientists make breakthrough in search for cells which could help us live to 120

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

More from Jacob Jaffa

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

Israeli medics’ union comes out against death penalty bill

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

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