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Pregnant Jewish women are enlisting doulas to keep them ‘safe’ when they give birth with the NHS

Mothers-to-be are employing the services of Jewish doulas for the birth of their babies ‘to have someone on their side’ amid a wave of reports about antisemitic NHS staff

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November 4, 2025 16:02

Pregnant Jewish women are enlisting doulas to keep them ‘safe’ when they give birth with the NHS

Mamdani’s victory is not the only pro-Palestine earthquake shaking American politics

Omar Fateh, who has accused the Jewish state of ‘genocide’, has forced a run-off in the race to be the next mayor of Minneapolis

2 min read

November 5, 2025 16:01

Mayoral candidate Omar Fateh campaigns at the Midtown Global Market on November 4, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Getty Images)

Police

West Midlands Police to deploy 700 officers for Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match

The force will use police dogs and a drone unit to ‘maintain Birmingham’s reputation as a safe and welcoming place for everyone’

2 min read

November 6, 2025 10:58

West Midlands Police deployed 700 officers for the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match (Photo: Getty)

Trade

UK-Israel trade increased last year despite Gaza War and BDS campaigns

The growth was driven by a surge of financial services exports to the Jewish state and the returning influx of IT firms

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November 5, 2025 13:52

Container ships in port on a cloudy day (Getty Images)

Hostages

Body of Tanzanian kibbutz worker Joshua Mollel released by Hamas

The 21-year-old agricultural intern had arrived in Israel just 19 days before the October 7 attacks

1 min read

November 6, 2025 10:43

owen jones

Owen Jones sued for libel by BBC Middle East editor

Raffi Berg claimed to have received death threats following Jones’ article on Drop Site News

2 min read

November 6, 2025 11:02

BBC

Jewish leaders slam BBC after boss praised Arabic service as ‘almost as trusted as Al Jazeera’

The Jewish Leadership Council called claims of institutional anti-Israel bias, which emerged in a leaked internal report, ‘deeply alarming’

4 min read

November 6, 2025 11:54

London, UK - People outside the main entrance to the BBC's headquarters, Broadcasting House in central London.

Israeli Politics

Watered-down Charedi draft bill set to become law after coalition compromise

A re-drafted version of the law is set to relax requirements for yeshiva students to enlist and reduce penalties for draft dodging

2 min read

November 6, 2025 11:16

Anti-draft posters mocking Shas leader Aryeh Deri in the Charedi neighbourhood of Meah Shearim (Flash90)

Chicken soup

Budget friendly, rich chicken soup

Lower cost chicken wings make your best broth

November 6, 2025 11:13

Cook time: 3 hours +

Chicken

Filo topped chicken, leek and mushroom pie

Use leftover chicken from soup and roasts for this tasty but budget-friendly pie

November 6, 2025 11:18

Cook time: 40 minutes

Filo topped chicken, leek and mushroom pie

Birmingham

Anti-Israel activists plaster Birmingham in ‘zionists not welcome’ signs as city braces for Villa-Maccabi clash

West Midlands police are deploying 700 officers to cover the match, with protests against the Israeli team’s participation expected

2 min read

November 6, 2025 13:48

Masked activists put up anti-Zionist posters around Birmingham (Picture: Instagram/ deen1fied)

Higher Education

Soas accused of breaching free speech rules over requirements for Israeli professors

A conference hosted by the university demands academics from institutions built on land ‘appropriated from Indigenous peoples’ to acknowledge its ‘traditional owners’

2 min read

November 6, 2025 14:10