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Hezbollah

Threat of civil war in Lebanon as Hezbollah refuses to disarm

Chief of Iran-backed terror group accuses Lebanese government of carrying out ‘Israeli orders’

2 min read

August 18, 2025 15:13

Supporters of Hezbollah block the streets with burning tires as they rally in cars and motorbikes to protest the government's endorsement of a plan to disarm it, in Beirut's southern suburbs early on August 8, 2025. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)

United Synagogue

Is there a raison d’etre to diaspora life?

We speak to senior United Synagogue Rabbi Dr Michael Harris on the eve of his aliyah

4 min read

August 17, 2025 09:18

Rabbi Dr Michael and Judith Harris at Hampstead Synagogue

Food

Gaza food prices ‘plummet’ following aid increase

Israel’s move to boost food supplies to the Strip earlier this month is having a dramatic effect, says expert

1 min read

August 18, 2025 16:16

Gaza

Former head of IDF military intelligence said 50k Gaza deaths were ‘necessary’ to make Palestinians ‘feel the price’ of October 7

‘For everything that happened on October 7, for every one person on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die,' said Major General Aharon Haliva

1 min read

August 19, 2025 09:30

Major General Aharon Haliva, who resigned as head of the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate last year, was recorded saying deaths in Gaza were 'necessary', adding that it 'doesn't matter if they are children' (Image: Flash90)

Israel

Hamas ‘accepts fresh ceasefire proposal’ mediated by Egypt and Qatar

The new deal is believed to be similar to the most recent proposal which would have seen a 60-day ceasefire in exchange for 10 live Israeli hostages

1 min read

August 18, 2025 16:03

A woman in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square reacts to news earlier this year that the first hostages had been released after a ceasefire agreement began between Israel and Hamas in January (Photo: Getty)

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

GHF launches aid reservation pilot to prevent crowd crushes

The firm’s distribution sites in southern Gaza have seen a chaotic rush for supplies which disadvantages ‘women, children, older men and people with disabilities’, it said

2 min read

August 19, 2025 09:50

The GHF will now allow Gazans to reserve aid in advance in an attempt to prevent crowd crushes at distribution sites (Image: Getty)

Palestinian Authority

PA announces committee on taking over Gaza and drafting Palestinian constitution

Israel has previously said that neither Hamas nor the Authority can play any part in the future governance of the Strip

2 min read

August 19, 2025 10:38

The PA has announced the creation of a committee to govern Gaza and draft a new constitution for a unified Palestinian state (Pictured: PA President Mahmoud Abbas (c) at the UN building in New York last year; Image: Getty)

Hostages

‘May his memory be a revolution’: Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s family marks first yahrzeit of ‘Beautiful Six’ hostage

Israeli-American Hersh was shot dead at close range by Hamas in a tunnel under Gaza aged 23

1 min read

August 19, 2025 10:12

Hersh's gravestone, pictured earlier this year (Photo: Flash90)

A glimmer of hope at Oxford amid endemic antisemitism across British campuses

The new Tikvah Scholarships at St Anne’s College – funded by non-Jewish charity LUCK – send a powerful message to Jews and Israelis: you belong here and you are wanted. Other universities must also grasp this opportunity

4 min read

August 19, 2025 11:04

Pro-Palestine encampment set up by student activists in front of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on May 6, 2024

Zarah Sultana’s ‘lesson’ from Corbynism? He was too hidebound by the notion of antisemitism

Her response is revealing because it shows that the new party will seek to outdo even Corbyn’s Labour in its attitude to Israel – and, yes, to Jews

3 min read

August 19, 2025 09:09

Zarah Sultana at an anti-Israel protest in 2023 (Image: Alamy)

Aid

‘I spent weeks at Gaza aid sites – Hamas would rather let Palestinians starve than allow them to accept food’

In an exclusive interview with the JC, IDF reservist and Jerusalem Post correspondent, Michael Starr reveals what is really happening on the ground in the Strip

1 min read

August 19, 2025 12:23

Hamas "threatens" Palestinians to not use aid sites, according to IDF reservist Michael Starr (Image: Getty)

Israeli Politics

Likud MK slammed for comparing court staff to Jewish Nazi collaborators after being thrown out of Qatargate hearing

Tally Gotliv reportedly drew parallels between security guards and the Judenräte, Jewish councils set up by the Third Reich to enforce Nazi rule on the community

2 min read

August 19, 2025 12:56

Likd MK Tally Gotliv has been criticised for reportedly comparing court staff to Jews who collaborated with the Nazis after being ejected from a hearing (Image: Flash90)

Theatre

Oscar Levant: The Hollywood pianist who self-destructed

Doug Wright, writer of a new play about the unfulfilled career of Jewish talent Oscar Levant, shines the spotlight on Hollywood’s most gifted has-been

5 min read

August 14, 2025 15:07