CanadaMontreal council rejects bid to cut city’s ties with IsraelCouncillors instead passed an amended version of the motion that expressed ‘solidarity with the Palestinian people’ but stopped short of a boycott of the Jewish StateBy Lucy Pollock2 min read
Theodor Herzl‘Death to Zionism’ protest planned in Basel – 129 years to the day after Theodor Herzl ‘founded Jewish State’ in cityAn online banner promotes a ‘Free Palestine’ demonstration in the Swiss city on August 29, where Herzl held the First Zionist Congress in 1897By JC Reporter1 min read
IsraelIsrael and Syria hold talks to calm tensions after airbase strikeMossad chief Roman Gofman had a meeting with the Syrian foreign minister in Jordan after Israel hit the Abu al-Duhur military airport in IdlibBy JC Reporter2 min read
IsraelIsrael blocks entry of Swedish MEPs over ‘false accusations’ of ‘genocide’The decision comes after several British MPs were similarly denied visas, including a member of the Jewish Labour MovementBy JC Reporter1 min read
IsraelIsraeli Chief Rabbinate caps ketubah sums after grooms made pledges without ‘ability to pay’Rabbi Kalman Meir Ber said overeager husbands promising ‘imaginary sums’ had undermined ‘the very halachic meaning of the document’By Jacob Jaffa1 min read
HealthThe trauma experts from Israel helping Manchester recoverAfter the Heaton Park terror attack, Israeli charity Natal was there within daysBy Gaby Koppel5 min read
Israeli PoliticsConvicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to stand in 2026 Knesset electionPollard, who passed US state secrets to Israel in the 1980s, has previously supported the ‘forcible transfer’ of people from Gaza but is running for a centre-right partyBy John Jeffay1 min read
Netanyahu warns Israeli voters that left wing parties would approve a Palestinian stateThe Israeli prime minister was reacting to a speech by United Arab List leader Mansour AbbasBy JC Reporter1 min read||August 23, 2026 10:13
Kites from Gaza found in Israel spark memory of 2018 arson attacksThere were no suspicious items found on the kites, say IDFBy JC Reporter1 min read||August 23, 2026 09:50
By Stephen PollardWhy Labour’s attacks on Israel are really about winning back the Muslim voteEd Miliband’s claim that the E1 settlement project destroys the two-state solution is laughable – and his grandstanding will neither advance peace nor recover sectarian support already lost at the ballot box4 min read||August 21, 2026 16:08
Israeli health provider lauded as AI pioneer by WHOClalit’s analysis was 100 times more effective than traditional screening in identifying undiagnosed hepatitis CBy John Jeffay1 min read||August 21, 2026 12:05
Netanyahu to expel union boss behind Ben Gurion wildcat strike from LikudThe disruption, which lasted around an hour, affected nearly 100,000 passengers across 600 flightsBy John Jeffay1 min read||August 21, 2026 11:29
Ban imports from West Bank to save two-state solution, says foreign affairs chair Emily ThornberryLabour MP heading committee makes call after foreign secretary Ed Miliband warned UK will introduce measures in response to settlement expansionBy JC Reporter3 min read||August 21, 2026 09:25
Netanyahu warns Turkey against deploying troops in southern Syria after airbase strikeJerusalem accused Damascus of preparing to violate a new security pact, which has been touted as a forerunner to a potential peace dealBy John Jeffay1 min read||August 20, 2026 11:25
Ten dead as IDF targets Hamas in Gaza despite ceasefireThe military has insisted that the terror group has violated the US-backed truce and that the deal still permits targeted assassinations of enemy targetsBy John Jeffay1 min read||August 20, 2026 10:47
By The JC LeaderThe success of Israeli players in English football matters beyond the pitchAt a time when there are persistent attempts to turn the Jewish state into a pariah, clubs such as Southampton and West Ham have refused to allow politics to dictate whom they employ, judging Manor Solomon and Daniel Peretz as sportsmen rather than symbols2 min read||August 20, 2026 10:23