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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Charedi

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

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

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

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

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Israeli defense minister Yisrael Katz attends the state ceremony marking 52 years since the Yom Kippur War, held at the military cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on October 5, 2025 (Flash90)

State of emergency in southern Israel lifted for the first time since October 7

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Unifil shoots down IDF surveillance drone in Lebanon

The force also accused the IDF of dropping a grenade near one of its patrols, which the military is now investigating.

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October 27, 2025 10:36

UNIFIL forces inspect damage in the village of Kfarshuba in southern Lebanon on February 17, 2025 (Getty Images)

Former chief rabbi of Israel calls father of fallen IDF soldier a ‘heretic’ in Charedi conscription row

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef suggested that he would not join a minyan with Rabbi Tamir Granot over his views

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October 27, 2025 10:16

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 07, 2025 (Flash90)

Hamas will only disarm ‘if occupation ends’, claims political chief

Khalil al-Hayya also claimed that Hamas has reached a governance agreement with Fatah, contrary to a statement from the PA

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October 27, 2025 10:03

Hamas political bureau co-chair Khalil al-Hayya (R) holds a press conference during a visit to the Syrian capital Damascus on October 19, 2022 (Image: Getty)

Hamas officials can reach 10 of the 13 remaining hostages, Israeli officials tell Vance

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused the terror group of delaying releases to stave off its own disarmament

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October 24, 2025 10:26

US Vice President JD Vance delivers a statement to the media at Israel's ceasefire coordination centre near Kiryat Gat on October 21, 2025 (Flash90)

Saudi Arabia likely to join Abraham Accords by end of year, says Trump

The presidents comments were published shortly before an Israeli minister apologised for ‘inappropriate’ comments he made about the Gulf kingdom

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October 24, 2025 09:38

US President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Getty Images)

International Olympic Committee orders Indonesia boycott after Israel athletes denied visas

The head of Israel’s Olympic Committee praised the decision as ‘a clear message against Indonesia’s disgraceful behaviour’

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October 23, 2025 12:14

IOC President Kirsty Coventry speaks during the presidential handover ceremony at Olympic House on June 23, 2025 in Lausanne, Switzerland (Image: Getty Images)

Knesset pushes through two bills on West Bank settlement annexation despite government opposition

The motions, sponsored by the far-right Noam party, passed an initial reading with the help of a Likud rebel

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October 23, 2025 09:10

A plenum session of the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025 (Image: Flash90)

Knesset committee rejects proposal for October 7 state inquiry

Prime Minister Netanyahu has reportedly been pushing for an alternative inquiry commission, the members of which would be appointed by the government rather than the Supreme Court

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October 23, 2025 08:57

A meeting of the Knesset State Control Committee in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025 (Image: Flash90)

ICJ rules Israel ‘has not substantiated’ allegations of Unwra Hamas ‘infiltration’

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has called the case ‘part of a systematic persecution and delegitimisation’ effort

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October 22, 2025 15:36

ICJ President Yuji Iwasawa reads the advisory opinion at the International Court of Justice in The Hague

Netanyahu sacks national security advisor following reported disagreements over Gaza War

Tazachi Hanegbi is understood to have opposed the offensive aimed at occupying Gaza City in May

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October 22, 2025 13:22

National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi arrives for a court hearing in the trial against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on March 5, 2024 (Image: Flash90)

Home Office deproscribes former Al Qaeda affiliate led by new Syrian president

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham was formerly the offshoot of the terrorist group in Syria, but now forms the basis of the country’s government

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October 22, 2025 10:21

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa waits to meet with France's President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on September 24, 2025 (Image: Getty Images)

‘No involvement’ – Netanyahu rules out Turkish troops in Gaza under post-war plan

Concerns had been raised about Ankara’s forces being stationed in the region, with the prime minister seeing the idea as a ‘red line’

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October 22, 2025 09:37

US Vice President JD Vance meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025 (Image: Getty Images)

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Jacob Jaffa

Latest from Jacob Jaffa

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

State of emergency in southern Israel lifted for the first time since October 7

More from Jacob Jaffa

Unifil shoots down IDF surveillance drone in Lebanon

Former chief rabbi of Israel calls father of fallen IDF soldier a ‘heretic’ in Charedi conscription row

Hamas will only disarm ‘if occupation ends’, claims political chief

Hamas officials can reach 10 of the 13 remaining hostages, Israeli officials tell Vance

Saudi Arabia likely to join Abraham Accords by end of year, says Trump

International Olympic Committee orders Indonesia boycott after Israel athletes denied visas

Knesset pushes through two bills on West Bank settlement annexation despite government opposition

Knesset committee rejects proposal for October 7 state inquiry

ICJ rules Israel ‘has not substantiated’ allegations of Unwra Hamas ‘infiltration’

Netanyahu sacks national security advisor following reported disagreements over Gaza War

Home Office deproscribes former Al Qaeda affiliate led by new Syrian president

‘No involvement’ – Netanyahu rules out Turkish troops in Gaza under post-war plan