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American-Israeli rabbi and human rights campaigner ‘attacked by settlers’ in West Bank

Arik Ascherman said he was beaten with a rifle butt and a large club, breaking his neck and his back in two places

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June 26, 2025 11:32

Rabbi Arik Ascherman in hospital being treated for injuries after a confrontation in the West Bank. (Photo: Arik Ascherman)

Sidrah

Parashah of the week: Korach

“And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague had stopped” Bemidbar 17:15

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June 26, 2025 11:18

Botticelli's The Punishment of Korah (Wikimedia Commons)

Calendar

Shabbat times from June 27 to July 4

Shabbat times for the week

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June 26, 2025 11:12

WZO

Strictly Orthodox slate cleared after WZO probe into alleged voter fraud

Eretz HaKodesh will reenter the World Zionist Organisation election race after Israeli panel dismisses UK ruling disqualifying slate as ‘extreme and disproportionate’

2 min read

June 26, 2025 10:41

The WZO Central Election Committee has reversed the decision of the UK Area Election Committee to disqualify the Eretz Hakodesh slate after finding insufficient evidence of voter fraud (Photo: Getty)

Prime Minister's Questions

Angela Rayner refuses to call Gaza war a ‘genocide’ despite pressure from Corbyn

Deputy prime minister also appeared to suggest that Reform’s criticism of female RAF commander was worse than Palestine Action’s infiltration of Brize Norton

3 min read

June 26, 2025 10:21

British Medical Association

British Medical Association condemned for making Jewish doctors feel ‘unsafe’ with disproportionate focus on Israel

All motions passed by the conference’s international section related to Gaza

3 min read

June 26, 2025 10:16

A British Medical Association flag outside Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 629: Trump compares Iran strikes to Hiroshima bombing

Plus, the US president calls for end of Netanyahu’s ‘witch hunt’ corruption trial

3 min read

June 26, 2025 10:05

Donald Trump compared the devastation of US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Image: Getty)

Obituary

Therapist and writer Naomi Stadlen dies aged 82

Revolutionary therapist who wrote ‘the best parenting book you’ve never heard of’

5 min read

June 26, 2025 09:53

Therapist and writer Naomi Stadlen dies aged 82

Mahmoud Abbas

Abbas calls on Trump to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

The Palestinian leader said he had confidence in Trump’s ability to ‘give hope’ to the region

1 min read

June 26, 2025 09:46

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas attends the opening of the Istishsari cancer centre in Ramallah on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP) (Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted

They struck Iran’s nuclear programme not only in defence of their own countries, but in protection of the free world. Indeed, not since 1940, has so much been owed by so many to so few

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June 25, 2025 15:59