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Etgar

The Etgar Yom Kippur Quiz

Try this week’s Jewish knowledge test

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September 26, 2025 09:21

United Nations

Netanyahu ‘orders army to broadcast his UN speech across Gaza’

One military official is quoted as describing the move as psychological warfare

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September 26, 2025 11:00

Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly in 2024 (Photo: Getty Images)

Podcasts

Former JC editor Jake Wallis Simons launches podcast intended as ‘antidote to Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell’

The show will be ‘the antithesis of click-bait rage merchants seeking social media engagement’

3 min read

September 26, 2025 13:13

Jake Wallis Simons (left) and Andrew Fox, hosts of The Brink

Charlie Kirk’s murder is a wake-up call on UK campus antisemitism

When slogans for “Intifada” or “resistance” are tolerated under the cover of free expression, it should surprise no one that some eventually take these words literally

1 min read

September 26, 2025 12:59

Posters calling “Intifada until Victory! The fight for a free Palestine" were plastered on campus. (CST)

Spain

Spanish warship sent to protect Gaza flotilla uses Israeli weapons

The Spanish PM has repeatedly stressed that his country would end its arms trade with Israel

1 min read

September 26, 2025 13:44

Spanish warship, Furor, is equipped with Israeli weapons (Image: YouTube/ The Indian Express)

Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu tells UK: ‘You have rewarded the worst antisemites on Earth’ with recognition of Palestinian state

Dozens of delegates walked out in protest of Israel's conduct in Gaza before Bibi started speaking

3 min read

September 26, 2025 13:25

Benjamin Netanyahu tells UK: ‘You have rewarded the worst antisemites on Earth’ with recognition of Palestinian state

Close the UK and French consulates in Jerusalem or admit recognition was a sham

London and Paris can’t recognise a Palestinian state while running a mission to the Palestinians in Israel’s capital. It’s a breach of the law and the Oslo Accords and Israel should shut them down if necessary

2 min read

September 26, 2025 10:45

View of the British consulate in Jerusalem, August 16, 2024 (Image: Flash90)

Israel

Fury after British consulate in Jerusalem changes address to ‘Palestine’

France made a similar move, while Canada even extended the ‘Palestine’ address to its embassy in Tel Aviv

1 min read

September 25, 2025 09:31

Sidrah

Parashah of the week: Vayelech

“Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel. He said to them: I am now one hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go on” Deuteronomy 31:1-2

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September 26, 2025 09:17

Moses before his death, 1907 (Wikimedia Commons)

Rosh Hashanah

The cry of an anxious mother that transcends national borders

From the prophetess Deborah to a Roald Dahl tale – the explanation behind the notes of shofar

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September 19, 2025 11:43

The Mother of Sisera anxiously waits for her son (Joseph Albert Moore, 1861)

United Nations

Israel has ‘rebounded from its darkest day’ to deliver ‘stunning’ military victory, Netanyahu declares during UN address

Referencing the deployment of exploding pagers used to remotely attack Hezbollah operatives, he darkly joked: ‘We paged Hezbollah, and they got the message’

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September 26, 2025 14:46