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‘He was about to shoot me’: Freed hostage reveals how he prevented his own execution in Gaza tunnels

Yosef Haim Ohana also detailed the brutal regime of beatings dished out by his Hamas captors

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October 28, 2025 10:15

Yosef Haim Ohana in an Israeli TV interview following his release from Gaza (Image: Channel 12)

Labour’s hypocrisy: freezing trade with Israel while selling jets to Erdoğan’s Turkey

This government prefers to arm a state that jails opponents, crushes unions and shelters Hamas rather than stand with a democratic ally fighting genocidal terrorists

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October 28, 2025 11:24

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) after signing an $11 billion agreement for 20 Eurofighter jets, at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on October 27, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Hostages

Hamas returns remains of deceased hostage already recovered by IDF two years ago

The group has also been accused of staging the discovery of the body for the benefit of Red Cross observers

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October 28, 2025 09:59

Steve Witkoff

Steve Witkoff’s son backs call for British Jews to be offered ‘refuge’ in the US

Alex Witkoff pointed to the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending an upcoming a match against Aston Villa in comparing the UK to 1930s Germany

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October 28, 2025 11:32

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 17: The Statue of Liberty is lit up at night on Liberty Island in New York Harbor on August 17, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Cost of living

Cost of Living: Summer snack survival kit

How to eat well and spend less during the school holidays

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July 22, 2022 08:13

Multiracial families having fun together with kids at pic nic barbecue party - Joy and love life style concept with mixed race people toasting juices with children at park

Food

Fast fakeaways for less

Takeaways can be costly - Ilana Epstein shares her tips on how to treat yourself for less

3 min read

July 9, 2024 13:53

World Health Organisation

NGOs discussed proving Gaza ‘famine’ to ‘pressure’ Israel two years ago, WHO official claims

‘The crimes were already predetermined, and then the organisations tried to demonstrate them’

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October 28, 2025 13:39

Gazans collect boxes of humanitarian aid at a distribution centre in the central Gaza Strip on August 22, 2025 (Getty Images)

Hezbollah weakened, not defeated: If war returns, Israel aims to finish the job

Jerusalem, Beirut and Damascus now share the goal of defeating the terror group and curbing Iran – cooperation that could pave the way for closer ties and eventual entry into the Abraham Accords

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October 28, 2025 13:51

People inspect the wreckage of a Hezbollah vehicle targeted by an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Haruf on October 25, 2025.(Image: Getty)

Nostra Aetate should matter to Jews more than ever

The document of little over 1,000 words marked a tectonic shift in the thinking of the Catholic Church and helped dispel centuries of institutional antisemitism

3 min read

October 28, 2025 14:32

Giovanni Battista Montini giving a papal blessing on the occasion of his crowning as Pope Paul VI in St Peter's Basilica, Rome on June 18, 1963 (Getty Images)

Charedi

Yeshiva students co-opt hostage symbols for anti-conscription protest

Hundreds of young Charedi boys gathered outside a West Bank detention facility in wearing yellow hats bearing the slogan ‘bring him back to yeshiva’

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October 28, 2025 14:10

Yeshiva students protest the detention of Ariel Shamai on October 27, 2025 (Image: X)

New York

Cornell student paper retracts cover art featuring ‘Holocaust inversion’ image

The illustration depicted a bloodied Star of David with a Nazi symbol in the centre carved into the back of a Palestinian woman

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October 28, 2025 14:46

Cornell student paper retracts cover art featuring ‘Holocaust inversion’ image

Ukraine

Torah translated into Ukrainian for first time despite printing press being hit by Russian strikes

‘This is truly a huge step forward for all Ukrainian-speaking Jews,’ said Chief Rabbi Moshe Azman

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October 28, 2025 15:22

The new Ukrainian Torah (Image: Chief Rabbi Of Ukraine Moshe Azman)

The Cable Street myth: how the left launders antisemitism in Britain

Invoked as a tale of anti-fascist heroism, Cable Street has become a cover for today’s extremists, while antisemitic marches go unchecked and Jews are left exposed

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October 28, 2025 14:11