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Keeping calm (and kosher for Pesach) and carrying on while visiting Israel at war

The evacuation of the beach is a silent, practised choreography. Once the phones ping with the all-clear, we filter back out, and within moments the volleyball has started up again

By Lottie Cannon

4 min read

Tel Aviv beach during the war with Iran (Image: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l); Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam (Image: Getty)

By Yaakov Katz

Lebanese peace talks show how Iran war is reshaping the Middle East

4 min read

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Netanyahu announces talks with Lebanese government as strikes continue despite Iran ceasefire

By Melanie Swan

2 min read

Rubble surrounds the site of an Iranian police facility, struck during the US-Israeli military campaign on March 4, 2026 in Tehran (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

The Iran victory myth and the ceasefire of a battered regime

4 min read

Protesters set fire to the US and Israeli flags in front of the Israel Consulate in Istanbul in March (Photo: Getty Images)

Turkey

At least two attackers dead in gun battle outside Israeli consulate in Turkey

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Carol with a cappuccino at Carmel Market, in Tel Aviv, during a break from the sirens

Israel

Mum’s sunny Israel vacation turned into a war-cation

By Natalie Blenford

4 min read

Israel

Israelis preparing for Pesach targeted by Iran missile barrage

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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Amnesty calls for war crime probe into Beit Shemesh strike

The NGO said the munitions used by Iran in a civilian area was ‘wildly inaccurate and carried a massive warhead’

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

April 1, 2026 10:57

The scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran struck Beit Shemesh, central Israel, on March 2, 2026 (Flash90)

By Stephen Pollard

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s revolting celebration of death

Even if you think capital punishment is just and right, it is not something to revel in. Sanctifying life is the cord which runs through almost every aspect of Judaism

2 min read

March 31, 2026 17:42

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir holds up a bottle of champagne in celebration of the passage of the death penalty law (Image: Knesset TV)

Four IDF soldiers killed in Lebanon

The UN and IDF are also investigating the deaths of three peacekeepers amid Israel’s expanding military operation in the country’s southern regions

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

March 31, 2026 14:02

Loved ones of Sergeant Liran Ben Zion, 19, who was killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile in southern Lebanon, attend his funeral on March 30, 2026 in Holon, Israel (Getty Images)

Knesset passes bill introducing death penalty for terror offences

Critics have claimed the law is discriminatory as it imposes capital punishment for terrorists convicted of murdering Israelis, but not those who kill Palestinians

By Melanie Swan

2 min read

March 31, 2026 09:36

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir opens champagne in the Knesset to celebrate the passage of the death penalty bill on March 30, 2026 (Flash90)

Sa’ar ‘expressed concern’ over UK antisemitism in call with Foreign Secretary

Yvette Cooper’s Israeli counterpart specifically cited the arson attack on four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

March 30, 2026 14:51

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar speaks during a meeting of the Subcommittee on Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, March 23, 2026 (Flash90)

Netanyahu gives Latin Patriarch ‘full and immediate access’ to Holy Sepulchre after Palm Sunday ban row

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa was blocked from entering the church on Palm Sunday by Israeli police, prompting criticism from the clergy and the US ambassador

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 30, 2026 13:35

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa meets senior figures from the Israel Police on March 29, 2026 (Israel Police)

Tony Blair hits out at leaders for allowing ‘environment of tacit permission’ that enables antisemitism

The former prime minister condemned what he called the ‘unholy alliance’ between parts of the left and Islamists

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

March 30, 2026 13:28

Tony Blair speaks during the inaugural meeting of the 'board of peace' hosted by US President Donald Trump at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on February 19 2026 (Photo: Getty)

IDF to expand ‘buffer zone’ in Lebanon to ‘thwart threat of invasion’

Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed last week that the military would occupy large swathes of the area south of the Litani River ‘until security for the residents of the north [of Israel] is ensured’.

By Melanie Swan

2 min read

March 30, 2026 10:44