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German defence contractor Renk mulls US move to bypass Berlin’s arms export ban to Israel

The company’s chief executive said the firm has a ‘responsibility to ensure that Israel is able to maintain its deterrence capabilities’

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

The IDF is heavily reliant on its tanks and it gets its gearboxes from Renk (Image: Getty)

Dramatic exit: a bulldozer demolishes a house in an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip in August 2005 (Image: Getty)

By Dan Schueftan

The JC Debate: The Gaza pullout might look like a blunder, but the strategic reality backs it up

6 min read

Huda Kattan rattled off several conspiracy theories about Israel in her video (Image: X/Anti Defamation League)

Antisemitism

Makeup boss Huda Kattan claims Israel was responsible for both world wars, 9/11 and October 7

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Unforeseen consequences: President Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Yitzahk Rabin at the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 (Image: Getty)

By Amir Avivi

The JC Debate: How the Gaza disengagement and Oslo paved the road to October 7

3 min read

US Sen. John Ossoff (D-GA) speaks at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris on July 30, 2024 (Image: Getty)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Republicans seize the ground on antisemitism and Israel that Democrats abandon

3 min read

Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin ordered the changing of the locks on offices his team shared with Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara after the cabinet voted to sack her - a decision currently under judicial review (Image: Flash90)

Israeli Politics

Israeli justice minister locks attorney-general out of shared offices

By JC Reporter

3 min read

A view of neighbourhoods in Ma'ale in the West Bank (Image: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash 90)

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Smotrich approves more than 3,000 new homes in long-frozen West Bank settlement to ‘bury Palestinian state’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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Mothers on the Front: 500 Israeli mums set up camp to call for an end to the war in Gaza

The anti-war protest group was inspired by the influential Four Mothers movement of the 1990s

By JC Reporter

2 min read

August 12, 2025 15:38

Members of the new coalition, Mothers on the Front, marched on Sunday calling for a ceasefire

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund sells stakes in Israeli companies

Nearly a dozen Israeli firms have been excluded from the fund

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

August 12, 2025 14:29

Norway's Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg's review of the sovereign fund's investment in Israel led to the decision to sell its stakes (Image: Getty)

Starlink still unavailable for West Bank settlers after Israel roll out

More than 500,000 Jewish residents of the territory cannot access its high-speed internet network

By JC Reporter

1 min read

August 12, 2025 14:20

Starlink is still not available to West Bank settlers after being rolled out in Israel (Image: Getty)

By Alex Hearn

Rabbi Baginsky and Rabbi Levy ignored the spirit of the hostage rally with their speech

Rather than showing moral leadership by reflecting on whether they might have misjudged the situation, their defensive reaction suggests they view the incident through the lens of their own persecution – a troubling disconnect.

3 min read

August 12, 2025 13:40

Israeli hostage Evyatar David looking emaciated. David, who turned 24 in captivity, was abducted during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. (Getty: Image)

Israeli review of Hamas health data claims most ‘malnutrition’ deaths were due to ‘pre-existing medical conditions’

‘The expert review concluded that there are no signs of a widespread malnutrition phenomenon among the population in Gaza,’ wrote the IDF

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

August 12, 2025 13:07

Israel's Defence Ministry has claimed that an 'expert review' has found that Hamas data on malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza is manipulated and features a significant number of cases linked to 'severe pre-existing medical conditions' (Image: Getty)

Freed hostages’ daughter weds with parents by her side

Shir Siegel had previously refused to hold the ceremony until both her parents were returned from Hamas captivity

By JC Reporter

1 min read

August 12, 2025 10:53

'The image of victory': Shir Siegel wed her long-time partner in a ceremony attended by her parents, both of whom were held hostage by Hamas (Image: X/@ADL)

By The JC Leader

Twenty years since Israel pulled out of Gaza – how Western folly fuelled the current bloodshed

Over the past two decades, Europe’s perverse incentives helped turn a peace overture into a prelude to the worst war of the Arab-Israeli conflict

3 min read

August 12, 2025 10:03

Israeli security forces drag a resisting Jewish settler onto a bus during the forced evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom, in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 18, 2005. (Image: Getty)

Israeli researchers report breakthrough in pre-natal genetic disease screening

Professor Idit Maya said the discovery has ‘significant implications, especially for Jews in Israel and the Diaspora’

By Howard Blas

4 min read

August 11, 2025 14:10

Professor Idit Maya and her team have created a new algorithm for measuring the pre-natal risk of genetic disease among the Jewish community (Image: Howard Blas)

By Dennis Ross

Recognising a symbolic Palestinian state will only help Israel’s far right block a real one

Instead of empty gestures, Western leaders could have pressed for a detailed post-war plan – securing Gaza, removing Hamas from power, reforming the Palestinian Authority, and laying real foundations for future statehood

5 min read

August 11, 2025 13:16

Israeli far-right cabinet members Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich (Image: Getty)

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Israel

German defence contractor Renk mulls US move to bypass Berlin’s arms export ban to Israel

The JC Debate: The Gaza pullout might look like a blunder, but the strategic reality backs it up

Makeup boss Huda Kattan claims Israel was responsible for both world wars, 9/11 and October 7

The JC Debate: How the Gaza disengagement and Oslo paved the road to October 7

Republicans seize the ground on antisemitism and Israel that Democrats abandon

Israeli justice minister locks attorney-general out of shared offices

Smotrich approves more than 3,000 new homes in long-frozen West Bank settlement to ‘bury Palestinian state’

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