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

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IDF

IDF’s former top lawyer sparks manhunt after disappearing following resignation over abuse video leak

Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi went missing for several hours and reportedly left a suicide note, before being found alive and well

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Rescue and police forces search for Military Advocate General Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi at Hof HaTzuk Beach in Tel Aviv, November 2, 2025 (Flash90)

(L-R) Colonel Asaf Hamami, Captain Omer Neutra and Staff Sergeant Oz Daniel

Remains of three slain IDF soldiers returned to Israel

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Members of the Red Cross stand amid the rubble of destroyed buildings as heavy machinery operates in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on October 27, 2025 (Getty Images)

Latest remains returned by Hamas not linked to any hostages

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Hundreds of thousands of Charedi Jews attend the 'million man' protest against IDF conscription in Jerusalem, October 30, 2025 (Flash90)

Charedi man dies after falling from skyscraper during anti-conscription march

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IDF’s top lawyer resigns after admitting role in video leak allegedly showing soldiers abusing detainee

Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi claimed she approved the leak to ‘counter the false propaganda directed against the military law enforcement authorities’

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October 31, 2025 11:18

Chief Military Advocate Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court President Uzi Vogelman at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 1, 2024 (Flash90)

Hamas releases bodies of hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch

Their return brings the number of hostages left in Gaza down to 11

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October 31, 2025 10:06

Amiram Cooper (L) and Sahar Baruch (Image: Courtesy)

Thousands of Charedim block roads in Jerusalem anti-draft protests

Demonstrators prayed en masse at the entrance to the city, while some pelted reporters covering the protest with plastic bottles and sticks.

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October 30, 2025 13:57

Thousands of ultra orthodox Jews attend the 'million man' protest against IDF conscription, in Jerusalem, October 30, 2025 (Flash90)

Knesset advances bill to split attorney-general’s powers

The measure has been backed by several ministers amid a long-running row over the government’s attempts to sack Gali Baharav-Miara

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October 30, 2025 09:59

Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on September 30, 2025 (Image: Flash90)

Neo-Nazi groups bail Georgia man arrested over assault while dressed as SS officer for Halloween

The woman he is alleged to have attacked called the costume a ‘blatant attempt to instill fear and create outrage’

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October 29, 2025 15:55

Kenneth Leland Morgan is arrested after an alleged assault in Athens, Georgia (Image: X/StopAntisemitism)

Harvard conservative magazine suspended after ‘echoing Hitler’ in ‘blood and soil’ article

The outlet’s editor insisted that any resemblance between the piece and the Nazi leader’s infamous 1939 Reichstag speech was unintended

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October 29, 2025 14:59

Athletes row under the John W. Weeks Footbridge passing Harvard University campus during the Head of the Charles Regatta 2025 on October 18, 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Getty Images)

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder claims parent company blocked development of ‘flavour for Palestine’

Ben Cohen is now going ahead with the project independently, and taking recipe suggestions from the public

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October 29, 2025 12:06

Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen announces the planned creation of an independently-made 'flavour for Palestine' (Instagram/Ben Cohen)

Israel announces resumption of ceasefire following Gaza strikes

The IDF said the strikes were prompted by numerous Hamas violations of the truce

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October 29, 2025 09:41

Smoke rises after an Israeli army strike in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel on October 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

Cornell student paper retracts cover art featuring ‘Holocaust inversion’ image

The illustration depicted a bloodied Star of David with a Nazi symbol in the centre carved into the back of a Palestinian woman

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October 28, 2025 14:46

Cornell student paper retracts cover art featuring ‘Holocaust inversion’ image

Yeshiva students co-opt hostage symbols for anti-conscription protest

Hundreds of young Charedi boys gathered outside a West Bank detention facility in wearing yellow hats bearing the slogan ‘bring him back to yeshiva’

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October 28, 2025 14:10

Yeshiva students protest the detention of Ariel Shamai on October 27, 2025 (Image: X)

‘He was about to shoot me’: Freed hostage reveals how he prevented his own execution in Gaza tunnels

Yosef Haim Ohana also detailed the brutal regime of beatings dished out by his Hamas captors

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October 28, 2025 10:15

Yosef Haim Ohana in an Israeli TV interview following his release from Gaza (Image: Channel 12)

Hamas returns remains of deceased hostage already recovered by IDF two years ago

The group has also been accused of staging the discovery of the body for the benefit of Red Cross observers

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October 28, 2025 09:59

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Jacob Jaffa

Latest from Jacob Jaffa

IDF’s former top lawyer sparks manhunt after disappearing following resignation over abuse video leak

Remains of three slain IDF soldiers returned to Israel

Latest remains returned by Hamas not linked to any hostages

Charedi man dies after falling from skyscraper during anti-conscription march

More from Jacob Jaffa

IDF’s top lawyer resigns after admitting role in video leak allegedly showing soldiers abusing detainee

Hamas releases bodies of hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch

Thousands of Charedim block roads in Jerusalem anti-draft protests

Knesset advances bill to split attorney-general’s powers

Neo-Nazi groups bail Georgia man arrested over assault while dressed as SS officer for Halloween

Harvard conservative magazine suspended after ‘echoing Hitler’ in ‘blood and soil’ article

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder claims parent company blocked development of ‘flavour for Palestine’

Israel announces resumption of ceasefire following Gaza strikes

Cornell student paper retracts cover art featuring ‘Holocaust inversion’ image

Yeshiva students co-opt hostage symbols for anti-conscription protest

‘He was about to shoot me’: Freed hostage reveals how he prevented his own execution in Gaza tunnels

Hamas returns remains of deceased hostage already recovered by IDF two years ago