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New Year Honours 2026

Meet Dame Polina Bayvel – the trailblazing scientist, whose Jewish faith requires no proof

Bayvel was recognised in the King’s New Year Honours List for her pioneering work in optical fibre engineering, but the Jewish scientist remains reverent to her academic idols

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January 16, 2026 14:33

Polina Bayvel, given a damehood in the King's New Year Honours List of 2026, is a pioneer in the field of optical fibre communications. (Photo: Eliana Jordan)

Israel

Hundreds of Tel Aviv residents sue homeowner blocking redevelopment project over how it would impact stray cats

Shirley Hamani claims that building work would force her to ‘abandon’ her feline ‘family members’

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January 16, 2026 14:13

To my fellow British Muslims: listen to the survivors of the Hamas October 7 attacks

Empathy does not require political agreement, but it does create the conditions for dialogue

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January 16, 2026 13:57

Memorial composed of photos of young Israelis killed during the terrorist attack on the NOVA Festival on October 7, 2023 (Image: Getty)

Obituary

Harry Olmer, Holocaust survivor and educator, dies at 98

Olmer survived multiple forced labour camps before rebuilding his life in the UK as a dentist and advocate for Holocaust education

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January 16, 2026 11:43

Harry Olmer. (Photo: Holocaust Educational Trust)

Schools

Education Secretary hints at further action after Jewish pro-Israel MP’s school visit blocked

Bridget Phillipson said it was a ‘shocking’ episode and that her department has been in 'direct contact' with Ofsted

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January 16, 2026 11:32

Jewish Labour MP Damien Egan, pictured in 2024 (Photo: Getty)

Iran

US sets out four conditions for Iran peace as aircraft carrier en route to Gulf

Washington’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, called on the Islamic Republic to commit to stringent limitations on its nuclear and ballistic programmes

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January 16, 2026 11:20

Steve Witkoff onstage at the Israeli-American Council's conference in Hollywood, Florida, on January 15, 2025. (YouTube/ErinMolan)

Etgar

The Etgar Quiz no 313

Try our weekly Jewish knowledge test

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January 16, 2026 11:05

Paperweight

’Jewish Citizens Advice’ opens Manchester office

Paperweight is seeing growing demand from those in personal and financial crises

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January 16, 2026 11:04

Hannah Gerson is the new regional director of Paperweight in Manchester (Photo: Paperweight)

Hamas

Trump promises ‘comprehensive’ Hamas disarmament in ceasefire Phase Two

The US President was undeterred by the terror group’s public pronouncements that it would refuse to lay down its weapons

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January 16, 2026 10:41

US President Trump speaks during a meeting with oil and gas executives in the East Room of the White House on January 9, 2026 (Getty Images)

Persian Jews

Could my Persian grandmother be a winner at the Academy Awards?

My late Bibi appears in Sarah Solemani’s Oscar-shortlisted film about the secret Jews of Mashad. I hope she’s up there giggling at the thought

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January 16, 2026 09:36

From left: Naomi's grandmother, Hannah Haruni, with grandfather, Eli, on their engagement in 1948; Naomi, aged 16, with her grandmother in Israel in 1995, a year before she died

Iran

US Treasury Secretary says Iran’s leaders are wiring ‘tens of millions of dollars’ out of the country

Scott Bessent described the situation as ‘the rats fleeing the ship’

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January 15, 2026 17:39

A protester burns an image of Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran during a protest outside the Iranian Embassy on January 14 in London (Picture: Getty Images)

Neo-Nazi

They chanted ‘sieg geil’, not ‘sieg heil’, argues German lawyer defending football fans

A group of teenagers and young adults in eastern Germany were convicted of chanting the Nazi rallying cry

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January 15, 2026 17:06

The church of St Martin in Meerane, Germany (Image: Wikimedia / André Karwath)

Courts

Boy accused of synagogue terror plot had an ‘arsenal’ of weapons at home

Teen also wrote in his journal how some pupils at his school ‘should be shot’, a court hears

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January 15, 2026 17:02

Sometimes I wonder: would it be possible for Jews to go on strike?

Let’s put a moratorium on Bernstein and Sondheim and Hammerstein and Hart and Menhuin and Baremboim and Bette and Barbra.. take down those Chagalls, Modigliani’s and Soutine’s…need I go on?

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January 15, 2026 15:34