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Three women arrested after van rammed into fence of Israeli-linked defence firm

Police confirmed the trio were detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 following the attempted attack on major aerospace company Leonardo

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July 17, 2025 12:33

Three women have been arrested following a van ramming attack at a plant owned by an Israeli-linked defence firm (Image: X/@Osinttechnical)

Theatre

That Bastard, Puccini! review: ‘grips from start to finish’★★★★★

James Inverne takes a forgotten piece of operatic history and turns it into an engrossing piece of theatre. You’ll love it even if you know nowt about Puccini

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July 17, 2025 12:49

Alasdair Buch, Lisa-Anne Wood and Sebastien Torkia on stage in That Bastard, Puccini! (Photo: David Monteith-Hodge)

The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally

All three commissioners of the UNHRC’s “permanent inquiry” into Israel have abruptly quit after their colleague Albanese was hit with UN sanctions. If it was so easy to get rid of them, why wasn’t action taken sooner?

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July 17, 2025 12:52

Navi Pillay, former chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Geneva, on June 18, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Russia

Century-old siddur found during preservation of Siberian synagogue

The wooden prayer hall was erected in Tomsk by Jews who'd been taken as children and forcefully conscripted to the Tsar’s army for 20 years.

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July 17, 2025 13:40

Workers preserving the Soldiers' Synagogue in Tomsk, Siberia discovered a century-old siddur hidden in the attic (Image: Canaan Lidor)

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

As Hillel Neuer dryly put it: ‘It’s really important that we are clear that BBC News has a pro-terrorist wing, and a completely separate wing that are just idiots’

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July 17, 2025 14:07

Head of BBC News Deborah Turness poses for photographs at the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque, marking the home of BBC executive Grace Wyndham Goldie, one of the only female executives at the BBC in the 1930s. (Image: Getty)

Hamas

Leaked recording shows BBC News CEO defending ‘inaccurate’ Gaza documentary

Deborah Turness appeared to attempt to draw a distinction between Hamas’ military and political wings after it emerged that the film’s narrator was the son of an official in the terror group’s government in Gaza

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July 17, 2025 12:34

The CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, was recorded defending the corporation's controversial documentary on Gaza, despite its own head of complaints ruling that the film violated accuracy rules (Image: Getty)

Diane Abbott

Labour investigating Diane Abbott after she doubles down on ‘antisemitic’ comments

The veteran MP appeared to defend remarks made in 2023 when she suggested that Jews, Travellers and Irish people do not experience racism

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July 17, 2025 09:17

Diane Abbott has said she advised her old friend Jeremy Corbyn against forming a new party (Photo: Getty)

Ireland

‘I’m half-Jewish and half-Irish – this is how I see the Ireland of today’

Amid rising antisemitism in the Emerald Isle, my biography – the exact same as James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom – is causing me more than a few headaches

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July 17, 2025 13:45

An anti-Israel rally in Dublin last month

HIAS+JCORE

Teacher and campaigner honoured for work with refugees and asylum seekers

Deborah Koder and Abdullahi Yussuf received the HIAS+JCORE Dubs Awards

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July 17, 2025 16:50

Deborah Koder and Abdullahi Yussuf, winners of the Lord Dubs Awards, at the HIAS+JCORE annual event (Photo: Gaby Wine)

Obituary

Ralph Blumenau, history teacher dies aged 100

Refugee who became a ‘brilliant and inspiring’ history teacher at Malvern College

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July 17, 2025 16:07

Ralph Blumenau, history teacher dies aged 100

Druze

Who are the Druze and why is Israel defending them?

The long persecuted minority has been at the centre of a recent bout of sectarian violence in Syria, which saw the IDF bomb Damascus in support of the community

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July 17, 2025 14:52

The Druze have existed for over a millennium (Image: Getty)

Chicken

Roasted plum and pomegranate chicken with pistachio relish

Juicy chicken thighs coated in a savoury sweet sticky glaze

August 29, 2024 07:00

Cook time: 55 minutes

Calendar

Shabbat times from July 18 to July 25

Shabbat times for the week

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July 17, 2025 18:42

Eden Primary

Mazel Tov! Eden celebrates its bnei mitzvah

The Muswell Hill one-form entry school is a tight-knit community

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July 18, 2025 07:31

The pupils are blessed under a hand-made tallit during a ceremony as Eden Primary School celebrates its bnei mitzvah (Photo: Eden Primary)

Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott suspended from Labour after doubling down on suggestion Jews don’t experience racism

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP will not sit as an independent after standing by comments her own party leader described as ‘antisemitic’

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July 18, 2025 09:21

Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour Party after saying she did not regret suggesting that Jews do not experience racism in 2023 (Image: Getty)

The massacre of the Druze is a moral test: Israel acted, the world failed

The international community cannot continue treating President al-Sharra as a legitimate partner, while turning a blind eye to the atrocities that are being committing in Sweida

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July 18, 2025 09:52

Fighters from Bedouin tribes gather near a burning building in the Druze village of al-Mazraa in Syria's southern Sweida governorate (Image: Getty)

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