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JC Israel Briefing Day 581: IDF renews counter-terror operations in Lebanon and West Bank

Plus, Trump to skip Israel on Middle East tour

By Nathan Jeffay

2 min read

The IDF has renewed its campaign of airstrikes in southern Lebanon (Image: Flash90)

Israeli troops deploy at a position near the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on May 8, 2025 (Photo: Getty Images)

Shany Mor

The West’s two-tier international law doesn’t harm just Israel

4 min read

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s told Tucker Carlson 'I love Jesus Christ'

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen tells Tucker Carlson: ‘I love Jesus’

2 min read

British teen crowned champion of international Torah quiz

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British teen crowned champion of international Torah quiz

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

Israelis travelling to Eurovision next week have been urged not to display Jewish symbols in public due to safety concerns (Pictured: Yuval Raphael, Israel's Eurovision entry for 2025; Image: Flash90)

Eurovision 2025

Israel urges Eurovision visitors to avoid displaying Jewish symbols in public

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Qatar is set to provide $29 million to fund a pay increase for Syrian civil servants (Pictured: Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani; Image: Getty)

Qatar to bankroll Syria’s public sector pay hike with $29m cash boost

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Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has claimed that the prospect of a hostage deal will 'vanish' when US President Trump concludes his tour of the Middle East next week (Image: Getty)

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JC Israel Briefing Day 580: One week left to strike hostage deal, claims Katz

By Nathan Jeffay

2 min read

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Green MP’s Palestine protest at defence manufacturer branded a ‘gift’ to Putin

Former defence secretary Grant Shapps said the ‘dangerously naive’ protest would undermine Nato

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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May 7, 2025 15:09

Green Party MP Sian Berry (Image: Getty).

John Nathan

Up Hamas, down sense: The music industry’s moral failure

The growing support for Kneecap despite their pro-Hamas comments reflects the culture of self-righteous ignorance that dominates the anti-Israel position.

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May 7, 2025 14:33

Mo Chara (left) and Moglai Bap from Northern Irish hip hop trio Kneecap perform onstage during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Image: Getty)

Maureen Lipman

By Maureen Lipman

Bras, bat mitzvahs and Bereshit: it’s all part of a working girl's day

A cruise ends, reality returns. On the importance of showing up — for family, faith, and fittings…

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May 7, 2025 13:41

Bat mitzvah celebration with young woman reading from scroll in Hebrew

Syria in ‘secret talks’ with Israel over security and counter-terrorism

The reported development follows a row over sectarian violence against the Druze community and coincides with Syria’s new president’s first trip to Europe

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May 7, 2025 13:22

Israel and Syria have reportedly opened a diplomatic back channel, mediated by the UAE (Image: Getty)

Senior Conservatives call on government to recognise Palestinian state

A number of Tory grandees, including Winston Churchill’s grandson, urged ministers to ‘give the Palestinian people some hope’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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May 7, 2025 11:16

Conservative Peer Lord Soames (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Kings of the Quiz: City Boys win Etgar Israel again

The annual contest

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May 7, 2025 09:16

On the knowledge: Etgar Israel 2025

JC Israel Briefing Day 579: Trump downgrades living hostage numbers

Plus, Gantz calls on IDF to retain control of Gaza, West Bank and southern Lebanon

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

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May 7, 2025 08:20

US President Donald Trump has suggested that only 21 hostages, rather than 24, remain alive in Gaza (Image: Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Israel strikes Yemen’s main airport days after Ben-Gurion attack

The unusual move comes amid a wave of retaliatory operations after Houthi rebels breached air defences around Tel Aviv

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May 6, 2025 12:51

Israel has conducted airstrikes against Sanaa International Airport in Yemen's capital (Image: X/@AmitSegal)

Blood money or vital aid? How rabbis wrestled with German reparations

Post-Nazi Germany’s offer of compensation to Israel for the Shoah split the country

By Rabbi Gideon Sylvester

3 min read

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May 6, 2025 12:08

Israeli Opposition leader Menachem Begin addressing a protest in Tel Aviv agraints German reparations (National Photo Collection of Israel)

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