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Quiet defiance: Tel Aviv reacts to Israel’s strike on Iran

Pride celebrations cancelled, clubs emptied and emergency alerts echoed through the city – but on the beaches and in the markets, the spirit of the city is alive

Trump and Netanyahu played Iran by engaging in a good-cop, bad-cop strategy

Tehran clearly miscalculated. Its biggest blunder, perhaps, was to gamble its proxy assets before it needed them to shield its nuclear programme from Israel

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker, review: ‘a Bloomsday treat’

This is a fascinating tribute to Richard Ellmann, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and James Joyce’s greatest biographer

Rabbi Alan Plancey

Orthodox rabbi who linked Yiddishkeit with worldliness

‘Why my Zionist novel shows the pull of the Jewish state and not the push of Jew-hate’

Stopping Iran’s bomb? Unforgivable

While Tehran edges closer to nuclear weapons, the ‘useful experts’ blame Israel for acting

Why Israel attacked Iran

A country that has repeatedly shown its intent to destroy the Jewish state was – in Israel’s view – days away from getting a nuclear bomb

Court blocks deportation of Columbia Palestine protester Mahmoud Khalil

A federal judge ruled that the activist’s detention and deportation would cause him ‘irreparable harm’ and ‘chill’ free speech

‘Ghost of Al-Qassam’ with $750k bounty on his head named as new Hamas leader

Az al-Din Haddad reportedly speaks Hebrew and keeps photos of Israeli hostages on his phone after helping to plan the October 7, 2023 massacres

CST advises British Jews to be ‘vigilant’ in public spaces after Iran strikes

The CST said the advice was not based on specific intelligence

Fears for Jewish schools as parents lose legal challenge to Labour’s VAT tax raid

The High Court rejected the claim, brought by a number of children, parents and education providers, that the tax measures would violate human rights law

Starmer blasted for ‘appeasing’ Iran in response to Israeli strikes

‘Now is the time for restraint, calm and a return to diplomacy’, the prime minister said.

Israeli military official on Iran: ‘We are prepared for this to keep going on for days’

Officer says overnight offensive was ‘successful’ but stresses need to remain humble

Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

The paradox of preemption is that the very success of such an operation conceals the scale of the danger it prevented

Son of Iran’s last monarch calls for overthrow of Khameinei regime following Israel strikes

Reza Pahlavi accused the Islamic Republic’s ‘corrupt and incompetent’ leaders of ‘embroiling Iran in a war’

JC Israel Briefing Day 616: Israel strikes Iran

Plus, Washington denies involvement as 100 Iranian drones sent in retaliation