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‘They took a diamond from us, my strength, my soul,’ says heartbroken father of IDF soldier killed at checkpoint

Funerals were held on Sunday for Ron Yonatan Roytman, 23, and Yuval Shai Svilem, 20, who were killed near Hebron on Friday

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October 26, 2026 10:41

Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman (left) and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem (Images: IDF)

Mitzvah Day

Volunteers work together in the park for 2026’s first Mitzvah Day event

The Joy of Giving Back is the theme of the event this year

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October 26, 2026 10:38

Volunteers came from a variety of backgrounds

Memory of fallen soldiers must never be exploited for cynical election slogans

Law must ensure political campaigns can use names and images of the dead only with consent of bereaved families

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October 25, 2026 15:22

Laly Derai is a journalist and social activist whose son Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Saadia Derai fell in Gaza

Green Party

BBC accused of giving Green activist ‘free rein’ to ‘launch disgusting attack’ on Jewish guest

Dr Ashok Kumar later said that ‘Zionism will join apartheid and Jim Crow in the ugly dustbin of history’

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October 25, 2026 13:20

Dr Ashok Kumar on the BBC's 'Politics Live' on October 18, 2026 (BBC)

Green Party

Board of Deputies votes to declare Greens a ‘racist party’

At Sunday’s monthly plenary, called on other parties to shun alliances with the Greens following their ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

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October 25, 2026 13:14

Green Party leader Zack Polanski poses with supporters after speaking at a rally in south London on June 24, 2026. This image is illustrative and there is no suggestion of racism concerning anyone pictured (Getty Images)

Israel

Bank of Israel rejects Netanyahu’s claim crypto could help evade financial sanctions

The prime minister told Israelis to prepare for the economic impact of potential international measures against Jerusalem

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October 25, 2026 11:54

Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks during a Likud campaign rally at Expo Tel Aviv on September 17, 2026 (Getty Images)

Hitler

Suspect arrested over blaze that ‘destroyed’ Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest

The Nazi leader’s mountain retreat in Bavaria had survived the Second World War and was being used as a restaurant

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October 25, 2026 10:33

The Eagle's Nest ablaze on October 23, 2026 (Getty Images)

The AI librarian that can help with our Jewish learning

Sefaria’s new online tool can guide us to the sources we need

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October 25, 2026 10:22

Israeli Politics

UK sanctions handed Netanyahu electoral boost, new polling shows

Israelis also showed more support for the settlement project and attached less importance to maintaining good relations with the UK and Europe

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October 25, 2026 10:11

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on October 22, 2026 (Flash90)

Inside Israel, I see how little haters worldwide understand this election

Benjamin Netanyahu’s future is at stake – but the issues for voters in a nation recovering from trauma are far removed from luxury beliefs of critics living safely abroad

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October 23, 2026 18:41

Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud campaign rally on September 17, 2026 in Tel Aviv (Amir Levy/Getty Images)

The slaughter debate has lost its sense of proportion

Is the real objection to shechita not to the treatment of the animal on four legs but to the person on two?

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October 23, 2026 17:01

Animals killed by shechita amount to a very small proportion of the nearly 20 million killed in a week (Photo: Getty Images)

Football

How Jewish clubs helped put Sunday football on the FA map

Jews who could not play on Shabbat – together with non-Jews who did not have time on any other day – forced FA to recognise Sunday football

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October 23, 2026 17:00

A match in the 1950s, when Sunday football was becoming increasingly popular (Photo: Getty Images)

Film

‘I wasn’t terribly excited by his writing when I was young’: Paweł Pawlikowski on his new film about Thomas Mann

Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller play the great writer and his daughter in Fatherland, the Polish-Jewish film-maker’s portrait of postwar Germany

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October 23, 2026 16:56

Hanns Zischler as Thomas Mann and Sandra Hüller as his daughter Erika in Fatherland

Iran

Exclusive: Peers back calls for greater Charity Commission powers to counter IRGC influence

Experts have said the regime is using British charities to ‘come through the back door’

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October 23, 2026 16:48

Entertainment

‘Nobody Wants This’ creator Erin Foster publicly disagrees with Adam Brody’s ‘Gaza genocide’ claim

Foster described her show is a ‘love letter to Jewish people’ at a time when ‘there is almost zero positive representation of Jewish people’

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October 23, 2026 16:47

Adam Brody and Kristen Bell star as the interfaith couple at the centre of Erin Foster's hit Netflix show 'Nobody Wants This' (Photo: Erin Simkin/Netflix)

Court and Crime

Men deny arson attack on synagogue

Dominic Charles-Turner and Moses Edwards are accused of setting fire to East London Synagogue in Nelson Street, Whitechapel

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October 23, 2026 16:43

"A fine classic interior": Nelson Street (photo: Acuitus)

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