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Government signals Israel trade talks will resume after phase two of Gaza ceasefire

Treasury minister Lord Stockwood indicates negotiations strengthening business ties could restart soon

4 min read

January 9, 2026 12:50

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) and Israel's President Isaac Herzog (L) in 10 Downing Street on September 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Berlin Shuffle review: Pimps, prostitutes and peddlers in Weimar Germany

Hopeless cases, lowlifes and down-and-outs, the atmosphere in the extraordinarily talented Ulrich Boschwitz’s first novel feels like something from Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera

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January 9, 2026 13:58

Berlin Shuffle review: Pimps, prostitutes and peddlers in Weimar Germany

Books

The Jewish woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe

Jennifer Lipman meets the author of a new book about Zionist paratrooper and poet Hannah Senesh

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January 9, 2026 14:13

Jewish Joan of Arc: Hannah Senesh and Douglas Century with his book Crash of Heavens

Media

Contributors who glorified killing of Israelis and Jews were allowed on BBC Arabic, head of news admits

The BBC failed to adequately scrutinise guests’ social media history, the corporation’s head of news has said

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January 9, 2026 14:16

Iranians are rising against the Islamic Republic’s war on their civilisation

From the moment it seized power, the regime sought to overwrite the people’s ancient identity with a rigid, imported ideology to control their collective memory.

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January 9, 2026 15:28

Protestors raise Iran’s pre-revolutionary flag of the Lion and the Sun in Khorramabad atop an Islamic Republic clerical statue. (Image: X)

United States

Who is the Jewish mayor of Minneapolis who called the ICE ‘self-defence’ claim ‘bulls**t’?

Jacob Frey has said his political career has been influenced by the Jewish concept of ‘tikkun olam’

2 min read

January 8, 2026 17:25

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (Image: Getty Images)

New York

Workers at Israeli-owned NYC bakery demand ‘end of Zionist projects’ in unionisation push

Employees of Breads Bakery, famous for its babka and rugelach, specifically cited the business’s participation in a Jewish food festival, which they claimed was connected to IDF fundraising

1 min read

January 9, 2026 14:47