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Netanyahu ‘phoned Syrian president to protect Druze’ during 2025 massacre

Such a call could have been the first ever direct conversation between the leaders of Israel and Syria

1 min read

Bedouin and tribal fighters gather in the Druze majority province of Sweida, in Syria, on July 19 2025 (Photo: Getty)

Leader of the Arab Israeli party Ra'am (United Arab List), Mansour Abbas speaks during an election campaign event (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP via Getty Images)

How the Arab vote could decide the balance of power in Israel’s historic election

6 min read

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

Israel election: What is Netanyahu’s Likud offering voters in his bid to stay in power?

4 min read

Yaakov Asher MK speaks with Aryeh Deri MK during a Knesset vote on Charedi conscription on July 14, 2026 (Flash90)

Israel election: Who are the Charedi parties and what do they stand for?

4 min read

Israel election: What does Bennett and Lapid’s Beyachad stand for?

Two former prime ministers are hoping to appeal to a large swathe of voters who are centre-left but want a robust approach to national security

4 min read

October 6, 2026 17:04

Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett stand together at the inaugural conference of Beyachad in Tel Aviv on May 12, 2026 (Getty Images)

Israel election: Can the Democrats revive the fortunes of the Zionist Left?

Party led by former IDF general Yair Golan has inherited mantle of Labour movement that dominated early decades of State of Israel

4 min read

October 6, 2026 16:58

Yair Golan addresses Israeli anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv on November 8, 2025 (Getty Images)

How I wrote The Tattooist of Auschwitz and other Holocaust stories

Ahead of a talk for the JC, Heather Morris tells John Jeffay about her new work of historical fiction based on an amazing true story

5 min read

October 5, 2026 14:19

Israel election: Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party in a nutshell – and could it actually topple Netanyahu?

Formed in 2025 and led by former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, Yashar is trying to stake a claim on the centre ground between Likud to the right and the Democrats to the left

4 min read

October 4, 2026 10:05

Gadi Eizenkot, a former IDF chief of staff, hopes to topple Benjamin Netanyahu with his Yashar party (Photo: Getty Images)

How does Israeli election voting work – and when will we know the winner?

The proportional representation system can be confusing for outsiders and may lead to protracted horse-trading that could go on for weeks

3 min read

October 1, 2026 08:00

An Israeli woman casts her vote in Har Homa as her children join her during Israel's general elections on November 1, 2022 (Getty Images)

How exactly does the Knesset work – and how different is it from the British parliament?

Israeli legislature is far younger than Palace of Westminster but already steeped in its own traditions accumulated in its short history

4 min read

September 29, 2026 15:56

Jerusalem, Israel - January 12, 2017: Israel's parliament building, known as the Knesset, is located on a hilltop in west Jerusalem.

AI system that can ‘read your mind’ developed in Israel

The advanced technology produces an AI-generated image of what a person can see

4 min read

September 16, 2026 12:58

The pictures on the left of each pair were shown to the people taking part. On the right are the AI-generated images produced by Brain-IT. (credit-Weizmann Institute of Science)

AI analysis of routine mammograms may reveal ‘silent’ signs of heart disease in women, say Israeli doctors

Potentially ground-breaking research presented by experts from Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan at world’s largest heart conference

2 min read

September 16, 2026 11:12

Doctor holding a mammogram in front of x-ray illuminator (Image: Getty)

‘I was shot in the chest by an Arab sniper – then I vowed: I’m going to get Israel fit’

Adam Ezekial on how being hit by a bullet inspired him to set up a fitness programme

5 min read

September 10, 2026 17:23

Bouncing back: Adam Ezekial working out in the gym. Inset: the X-ray showing the bullet in his chest (Photo: John Jeffay)

‘Project Nexus’ plan to make Israel quantum computing global power launched

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has warned that the so-called ‘Q Day,’ when the tech renders encryptions protecting global financial systems ‘useless’ by the tech, could occur in the near future

2 min read

September 2, 2026 16:43

Visitors look at a 64-qubit superconducting quantum computer on display at the Fujitsu booth during SEMICON Taiwan in Taipei on September 2, 2026 (Getty Images)

Houdini-inspired British-Jewish start-up uses AI to fix genes linked to fatal diseases

The cutting-edge tech applies a ‘camouflage’ to edited genes, preventing the body from rejecting attempted cures

3 min read

August 28, 2026 16:59

HoudiniBio CEO Jonathan Cohen-Gold (Courtesy)

Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to stand in 2026 Knesset election

Pollard, who passed US state secrets to Israel in the 1980s, has previously supported the ‘forcible transfer’ of people from Gaza but is running for a centre-right party

1 min read

August 24, 2026 11:38

Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York courthouse following his release from prison on November 20, 2015 (Getty Images)

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John Jeffay

Latest from John Jeffay

Netanyahu ‘phoned Syrian president to protect Druze’ during 2025 massacre

How the Arab vote could decide the balance of power in Israel’s historic election

Israel election: What is Netanyahu’s Likud offering voters in his bid to stay in power?

Israel election: Who are the Charedi parties and what do they stand for?

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Israel election: Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party in a nutshell – and could it actually topple Netanyahu?

How does Israeli election voting work – and when will we know the winner?

How exactly does the Knesset work – and how different is it from the British parliament?

AI system that can ‘read your mind’ developed in Israel

AI analysis of routine mammograms may reveal ‘silent’ signs of heart disease in women, say Israeli doctors

‘I was shot in the chest by an Arab sniper – then I vowed: I’m going to get Israel fit’

‘Project Nexus’ plan to make Israel quantum computing global power launched

Houdini-inspired British-Jewish start-up uses AI to fix genes linked to fatal diseases

Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to stand in 2026 Knesset election