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IDF to provide fresh meals with highest level of kosher certification amid Charedi enlistment push

The army said the move would ‘improve and expand the provision of meals’ for strictly-Orthodox soldiers

By Jacob Jaffa

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(Illustrative) A kashrut certification stamp during a mashgiach visit to agricultural fields and factories around Israel (Flash90)

Screenshot from a video posted by the IDF's Charedi Affairs account (X/DoronKadosh)

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IDF posts then deletes AI video telling Charedi draft dodgers how to avoid being stopped at the border

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Ofer Winter at the launch of the new Amcha Yisrael party in Jerusalem on August 25, 2026 (Flash90)

Israeli Politics

Former IDF general Ofer Winter launches new right-wing party for 2026 elections

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Strictly Orthodox Jewish men protest the arrests of draft dodgers, near Bet Lid military prison in Kfar Yona in central Israel in June 2026 (Photo: AFP/Getty)

Charedi

Financial sanctions against Charedi schools allowing draft dodgers to study expanded

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Shas

Strictly-Orthodox Shas party ordered to remove election ad featuring IDF soldier

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Entrance to Army Radio's headquarters in Tel Aviv (Flash90)

Israeli Politics

Israeli Supreme Court blocks government’s 'undemocratic’ attempt to shut down Army Radio

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UK government ‘appalled’ by Israel’s decision not to launch criminal case over World Central Kitchen strike

By Jane Prinsley

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Hamas using Gaza hospital to ‘interrogate and torture’ civilians, Shin Bet claims

Patients and staff at Nasser Hospital have reportedly witnessed masked men in the compound, which the terror group is said to be using as an ‘internal security hub’

By John Jeffay

1 min read

August 21, 2026 11:44

Exterior view of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on May 13, 2025 (Getty Images)

Ten dead as IDF targets Hamas in Gaza despite ceasefire

The military has insisted that the terror group has violated the US-backed truce and that the deal still permits targeted assassinations of enemy targets

By John Jeffay

1 min read

August 20, 2026 10:47

Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on August 1, 2026 (Flash90)

IDF orders criminal investigation into death of Hind Rajab

The five-year-old was one of seven members of the same family killed when an Israeli tank allegedly opened fire on their car

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

August 19, 2026 14:18

Hind Rajab (Palestinian Red Crescent Society)

Israeli attack on airbase could have sparked ‘military confrontation’ with Syria and Turkey, says US envoy

Tom Barrack insists the strikes on the Syrian site ‘carried a real risk of rapid escalation’

By Lianne Kolirin

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August 19, 2026 09:46

(Illustrative) A military helicopter flies above a Syrian flag during the Syria Summer Family Festival in Damascus on August 9, 2026 (Getty Images)

IDF recovers remains of fallen soldier missing for 44 years

Staff Sergeant Yehuda Katz was killed in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in Lebanon in 1982

By Lianne Kolirin

1 min read

August 19, 2026 09:35

By Rabbi Karmi Gross

The Orthodox will not only join the IDF in large numbers – they will influence it

My yeshivah provides Israel with a model for combining intensive Torah study with full military service

5 min read

August 18, 2026 16:16

Pro-Netanyahu TV network takes down report on former top IDF lawyer after confronting her neighbour by mistake

A reporter from Channel 14 thought he was interviewing Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who was involved in the leaking of footage showing the abuse of a prisoner at an Israeli detention facility

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

August 18, 2026 15:19

Former IDF Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is released to house arrest outside the Neve Tirtza Women’s Prison in Ramla, November 7, 2025 (Flash90)

Cambridge vows to continue investing in IDF-linked firms

The university came under pressure to cut its financial ties to Israel from campus pro-Palestine protestors

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

August 17, 2026 14:36

A pro-Palestine encampment outside King's College, Cambridge, on May 08, 2024 (Getty Images)

Israel responds to Hezbollah suicide drone attack by killing senior commander

Israel criticised the Lebanese terror group’s ‘cynical tactic’ of embedding its military among civilians

By JC Reporter

3 min read

August 16, 2026 11:56

Smoke rises from an Israeli strike on the Ali al-Taher Ridge in Lebanon on August 14, 2026 (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) /

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IDF

IDF to provide fresh meals with highest level of kosher certification amid Charedi enlistment push

IDF posts then deletes AI video telling Charedi draft dodgers how to avoid being stopped at the border

Former IDF general Ofer Winter launches new right-wing party for 2026 elections

Financial sanctions against Charedi schools allowing draft dodgers to study expanded

Strictly-Orthodox Shas party ordered to remove election ad featuring IDF soldier

Israeli Supreme Court blocks government’s 'undemocratic’ attempt to shut down Army Radio

UK government ‘appalled’ by Israel’s decision not to launch criminal case over World Central Kitchen strike

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