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Al Jazeera reporter killed in Gaza strike was ‘head of terror cell’, IDF claims

Five employees of the Qatari-based network were killed when their tent was hit outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital

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August 11, 2025 10:49

The IDF has claimed that Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terror cell in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Netanyahu’s Gaza options are limited but the biggest constraints are self-inflicted

Attacked by left and right, the prime minister’s plans to seize the Strip’s capital risks deepening the Jewish state’s isolation. The failure to outline a coherent “day after” plan is a huge mistake

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August 10, 2025 13:41

Protesters gather in a demonstration organised by the families of the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 calling for action to secure their release outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2025. (Image: Getty)

If a terror group is welcoming government policy, something is seriously wrong

The speech by Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis at Sunday’s hostage rally

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August 11, 2025 11:46

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis takes part in a 'National march for the Hostages' organised by Stop the Hate UK, in central London on August 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Canada

Orthodox Jewish man beaten in Montreal park in front of ‘traumatised’ children

The attacker was filmed punching the man repeatedly before throwing his kippah into a fountain

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August 11, 2025 12:25

An Orthodox Jewish man was attacked in a park in Montreal on Friday (Image: X/@gidonsaar)

Edinburgh Fringe

The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein review: A riveting, rip-roaring comedy with a Jewish heart ★★★★★

This French farce about the lesbian Jewish modernist couple is full of absurdity, profundity and make-believe – an unmissable delight

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August 11, 2025 11:54

Alyssa Simon, left, and Barsha as Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein in the play 'The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein', a must-see show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (Photo: Edward Einhorn)

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Chief Rabbi condemns Starmer at hostage rally where Progressive rabbis were booed off stage

Relatives of victims of October 7 spoke at the march to Downing Street

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August 10, 2025 21:30

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 10: Rev Sir Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth is seen with hostage families and supporters during a march to Downing Street on August 10, 2025 in London, England. Family members of hostages still held captive by Hamas in Gaza are marching alongside Jewish organizations and supporters to call on the UK government to defer plans to recognize a Palestinian state until all hostages have been released. Around 50 hostages remain in Gaza, of whom, fewer than half are believed to be alive. Last month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged that Britain would recognize a Palestinian state by September, unless Israel agrees to several conditions, including steps taken towards a ceasefire and ending suffering in Gaza. (Photo by Belinda Jiao/Getty Images)

Edinburgh Fringe

Arab-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid brings story of life ‘in between’ to debut Fringe show – just don’t let the title scare you

In ‘Between the River and the Sea’, renowned Israeli actor Sweid reflects on a life lived between Jewish and Arab, Israeli and Palestinian worlds – and being a father to Jewish children

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August 11, 2025 12:09

Arab-Israeli Yousef Sweid in his Edinburgh Fringe show 'Between the River and the Sea'. (Photo: Ute Langkafel)

Medicine

Israeli researchers report breakthrough in pre-natal genetic disease screening

Professor Idit Maya said the discovery has ‘significant implications, especially for Jews in Israel and the Diaspora’

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August 11, 2025 14:10

Professor Idit Maya and her team have created a new algorithm for measuring the pre-natal risk of genetic disease among the Jewish community (Image: Howard Blas)

The London Initiative

What is the London Initiative and why does its letter matter?

The founders of a new network that has been sharply critical of Netanyahu say they represent the ‘endangered majority’

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August 11, 2025 16:01

Sir Mick Davis (left) and Mike Prashker, founders of The London Initiative

Antisemitism

Apple Books selling reviled antisemitic conspiracy text for 49p

The description for The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion on Apple’s website reads: ‘Truth or hoax...read and decide by yourself.’

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August 11, 2025 15:03

Apple Books is selling the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion for just 49p (Image: Apple Books screenshot)

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg heading back to Gaza on new flotilla ‘with dozens of boats’ and Susan Sarandon

The Swedish activist is expected to join the Global Sumud Flotilla at the end of the month.

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August 11, 2025 16:34

An Israeli soldier offers food and water to activist Greta Thunberg wearing a life jacket and frog hat aboard the intercepted Gaza-bound yacht. (Photo: Israel Foreign Ministry.

We were silenced when we spoke up for Gazans, but Judaism isn’t about retreating into echo chambers

The leaders of Progressive Judaism were booed off stage for showing support for those suffering in Gaza – now they are ‘more determined than ever’ to stand up for ‘diversity of thought’

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August 12, 2025 09:15