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Albanian ship captain drowns rescuing two Israeli tourists in Lake Shkodra

Arben Anamali died after jumping in to save Israeli tourists who ignored his warning of dangerous currents in Albanian lake

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July 11, 2025 15:57

Captain Arben Anamali died rescuing two Israeli tourists from drowning in Albanian Lake Shkodra this past week.

IDF

IDF lawyers ‘raised concerns’ about plans to confine Gazans to new ‘humanitarian city’

Proponents claim the proposal will help to destroy Hamas and end the war

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July 11, 2025 15:19

The IDF's legal branch has reportedly raised concerns about Defence Minister Israel Katz's plan to relocate Gaza's entire population to a new 'humanitarian city' in Rafah

The deaths of soldiers are due to the evil of Hamas, not because they didn’t study Torah hard enough

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen, but how could anyone know such a thing?

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July 11, 2025 14:27

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen (Image: Flash90)

Books

The Age of Hitler review: What's next for the West? And will it be good for the Jews?

This is an incisive and persuasive account of how the story of the Second World World has been the West’s defining narrative of the past 80 years. But when the author predicts the resurgence of a Christian tradition, his polemic becomes vaporous

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July 11, 2025 13:26

Holocaust

Pro-Gaza MPs comparing Israel to Nazis brought shame onto Parliament

To weaponise the most painful events in Jewish history, to which some Jews alive today are witnesses, is to play with fire.

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July 11, 2025 12:50

Adnan Hussain MP (Image: Parliament TV).

The Wohl Legacy

‘First of its kind’ inclusive early years centre in Israel, thanks to UK donors

The Wohl Legacy and the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust helped fund the Beit Raz campus in Ra’anana

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July 11, 2025 12:45

The Beit Raz Campus (Photo: Beit Issie Shapiro)

Iran

Iran poses an increased threat to British Jews, says intelligence committee

Government has not developed ‘longer-term thinking and a real understanding of Iran’, argues report

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July 11, 2025 12:10

Iranian Basij militia parade to mark the 25th anniversary of its foundation by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran on November 26, 2005. (Photo by Hossein Fatemi / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by HOSSEIN FATEMI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

IDF

‘I have to help my son father a child after his death,’ says mother of fallen IDF soldier

Sharon Eisenkot’s son Maor was killed in Gaza in 2023. Two years on, she’s fighting for the right to use his sperm to start a family he’ll never meet

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July 11, 2025 11:56

Maor and Sharon Eizenkot on Sharon's last visit to her son, approximately two weeks before he entered Gaza and was killed - credit: Sharon Eizenkot

Edinburgh

Edinburgh and Glasgow go head to head in table tennis tournament

The Mrs Raie Levstein Cup takes its name from a former EHC member, who was a formidable table tennis player in her youth

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July 11, 2025 11:52

EHC and Maccabi Glasgow table tennis teams: (l-r) Jonathan Danzig, Derek Tobias, Tom Griffin, Nick Silk, John Danzig, Ilia Kutzenov, Norman Tenby, Sue Sinclair, Andy McIntyre, and Fergus Craig (Photo: Carol Levstein)

IDF

IDF strike on medical centre ‘under review’ after civilian casualties

The military said it was targeting a terrorist involved in the October 7 attacks, but several children are also believed to have died

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July 11, 2025 11:42

The IDF confirmed a strike in Deir al-Balah on Thursday is 'under review' after reports of civilian casualties (Pictured: Rubble following an earlier strike in the Deir al-Balah area on July 1; Image: Getty)

Charedi

Former Israeli chief rabbi suggests IDF deaths are linked to ‘neglecting’ Torah study

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the influential spiritual leader of the Shas party, made the comments following the deaths of five soldiers from a strictly-Orthodox unit

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July 11, 2025 11:09