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Prepare for a weak but reckless Iran to go on the front foot against Israel

The return of snapback sanctions hurt but, for the regime, Israel and the US are the immediate threats

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October 1, 2025 10:11

A masked Basij militant salutes to the camera in downtown Tehran, Iran, on January 10, 2025 (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Let this week be the beginning of the end of our Hamas nightmare

Trump’s plan offers the prospect of lasting change in the Middle East, and a future in which Israel is more secure than it was two years ago

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October 1, 2025 10:19

US President Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the end of a joint news conference in the State Dining Room at the White House on September 29, 2025 (Image: Getty)

France

New tree planted to commemorate Jewish man tortured to death after previous memorial felled in ‘act of hatred’

Donations poured in to replace the olive tree to commemorate murdered Frenchman Ilan Halimi

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September 4, 2025 12:16

Ilan Halimi was tortured to death in 2006 (Photo: Getty)

October 7 anniversary

‘I met people in Gaza who hate Hamas and want the war to end’

Women in Gaza cried out for Hamas to be killed, according to a commander in the search unit

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October 1, 2025 10:27

Lieutenant N, 21, is a platoon commander during officer training completion

Sport

WWE changes name of October 7 ‘Invasion’ event after Israeli backlash

The original name referred to a similar show that ran in 2001, but was changed after some fans complained that it was ‘insensitive’

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October 1, 2025 10:31

Wrestlers from NXT (L) and TNA (R) face off during the September 30 edition of WWE NXT (Image: WWE)

October 7 anniversary

‘The trauma will live on with us forever’: British relatives of October 7 victims on their two years of loss

Relatives of loved ones murdered by Hamas and hostages still held captive in Gaza tell Elisa Bray their agonising stories

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October 1, 2025 09:24

‘The trauma will live on with us forever’: British relatives of October 7 victims on their two years of loss

ADL

ADL deletes ‘glossary of extremism’ amid backlash over Charlie Kirk entry

The organisation insisted that the inclusion of Kirk’s Turning Point USA did not mean it was considered to be an extremist group

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October 1, 2025 11:16

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks onstage ADL's Never Is Now at Javits Center on March 03, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves pays tribute to Nova survivor and says she’ll ‘always be a friend of Israel’

‘I know that in the last couple of years … you haven’t always been pleased with decisions, with this government. I understand. I feel your pain.’

3 min read

October 1, 2025 11:32

Rachel Reeves speaks at a Labour Friends of Israel event during the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on September 30, 2025

Green Party

Green Party activists discuss dumping both main definitions of antisemitism

The proposers claimed the current definitions – IHRA and Jerusalem Declaration – were being ‘weaponised’

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October 1, 2025 11:09

Delegates arrive for the Green Party Autumn Conference at Manchester Central on September 06, 2024 in Manchester, England (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Jewish School Places

Jewish families reject offer at non-Jewish state school

More than 100 children remain on JCoSS waiting list as efforts to integrate Jewish pupils into mainstream school fall short

2 min read

October 1, 2025 11:39

Jewish families did not accept an offer from a non-Jewish school that offered places to pupils who were unable to get a place at a Jewish secondary school (Photo: Getty)

Obituary

Actress and Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner dies at 96

Polish actress and Holocaust survivor, whose most authentic role as a Catholic girl saved her life

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October 1, 2025 11:56

Actress and Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner dies at 96

Gaza flotilla

Seized documents show Gaza flotilla ‘owned and controlled by Hamas’

The Israeli Foreign Ministry claimed that the naval mission has close links to a designated terror group acting as Hamas’ representatives abroad

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October 1, 2025 12:09

Zaher Birawi (R) at an award ceremony for the Association of Students for Palestinian Advocacy in November 2024 (Image: Instagram/ZaherBirawi)

Yom Kippur

Everyone remembers their first time. I have Yom Kippur to thank for mine

After 45 years, two marriages, three children and a vasectomy, I feel it’s OK to share how the Day of Atonement led to the loss of my virginity

3 min read

October 1, 2025 12:47

Breaking the fast: back in the day The Gants Hill Odeon was the only venue big enough to hold High Holy Day services in Redbridge (Photo: X/Twitter)

Gaza

Desperate Gazans speak of desire for Hamas to accept Trump deal to end war

Their comments came as a senior Hamas official reportedly said the terror group was unlikely to sign the peace deal

2 min read

October 1, 2025 12:56

Gamal Al-Barai is desperate for the war to end (Photo: CBS News)

Celebrity

Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner name baby daughter after her Shoah survivor paternal great-grandmother Reichel

In keeping with Ashkenazi tradition, the couple have named their newborn in memory of a beloved relative who has passed away

1 min read

October 1, 2025 11:54

Joshua Kushner and Karlie Kloss (Photo: Getty)

Jewish weddings

Female soldier left in coma on October 7 marries after stunning recovery

Shot seven times and left for dead, Michelle Rukovicin was told she may never stand again, but promised herself she would walk to her chupah to wed her sweetheart

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October 1, 2025 10:06

October 7 survivor Michelle Rukovitzin married her boyfriend of five years (Photo: X)

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