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Edgware and Hendon Reform first UK shul to join global inclusion network

The Sunflowers scheme champions people with hidden disabilities

1 min read

August 18, 2026 17:35

Entrance of EHRS, showing it is a Sunflower organisation (Photo: EHRS)

Iran’s panicked regime moves to criminalise ordinary contacts with the outside world

The leadership is now at least as concerned about another wave of domestic unrest as it is about the external military threat. The draconian laws curtailing correspondence with foreign academics and media come amid the near-daily execution of dissidents

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August 18, 2026 17:25

IRGC members ahead of the funeral of Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran on July 3, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

Israel

Walk like a caveman! A modern woman’s pelvis is similar to a Neanderthal man’s, Israeli study finds

Research shows the male pelvis evolved to improve walking but women’s pelvises did not adapt in the same way due to the constraints of childbirth

1 min read

August 18, 2026 17:21

Reconstruction of the face of the oldest Neanderthal found in the Netherlands, nicknamed Krijn, on display at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (Photo by BART MAAT/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Opera

Rossini Opera Festival: ‘Le Siège de Corinthe was massacred’

I was excited by this year’s inclusion of his great but less frequently performed work, but David Livermore’s production was clumsy and oafish

5 min read

August 18, 2026 17:05

Le Siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival (Photo: Amati Bacciardi)

Charedi schools

Hackney Council offers space to homeless Charedi girls school

Beis Yaakov Primary had been urgently looking for premises for the new school term

1 min read

August 18, 2026 16:54

Beis Yaakov's new home on the site of the former Oldhill Community School in Stamford Hill

The Orthodox will not only join the IDF in large numbers – they will influence it

My yeshivah provides Israel with a model for combining intensive Torah study with full military service

5 min read

August 18, 2026 16:16

Qatar

Israel to stop selling military equipment to Qatar

Gulf state has long hosted Hamas leaders and been accused of attempts to sway Israeli public opinion

1 min read

August 18, 2026 15:40

Israel's Iron Dome air defence system (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

IDF

Pro-Netanyahu TV network takes down report on former top IDF lawyer after confronting her neighbour by mistake

A reporter from Channel 14 thought he was interviewing Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who was involved in the leaking of footage showing the abuse of a prisoner at an Israeli detention facility

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August 18, 2026 15:19

Former IDF Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is released to house arrest outside the Neve Tirtza Women’s Prison in Ramla, November 7, 2025 (Flash90)

Court and Crime

Tony Greenstein ‘issued rallying cry’ on October 7 to invite support for Hamas, court told

The prominent pro-Palestine activist faces a charge of inviting support for a proscribed organisation in relation to his social media activity on the day of the attack on southern Israel

2 min read

August 18, 2026 15:11

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia excises antisemitism from school textbooks

New teaching materials openly condemn Islamist extremist groups and play down previous hostility to Jews and Christians

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August 18, 2026 14:18

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the audience as US President Trump delivers remarks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, on November 19, 2025 (Getty Images)

Israel still has no ambassador in London after a year – a strategic failure that must be fixed pronto

As British Jews face alarming antisemitism and Andy Burnham signals that his government will be tougher on Jerusalem, a top diplomat is urgently needed

3 min read

August 18, 2026 14:08

Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, arrives at Downing Street on September 10, 2025 as Prime Minister Keir Starmer is welcoming Israeli President Isaac Herzog (Image: Getty Images)

United States

Jews target of nearly two-thirds of religion-based hate crimes in US, FBI finds

Despite making up only 2 per cent of the US population, Jews were the victims of 63 per cent of religiously-motivated hate crimes and 14 per cent of total hate crimes

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August 18, 2026 13:39