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Norway

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

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)

West Bank

Starlink still unavailable for West Bank settlers after Israel roll out

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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

By Alex Hearn

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

3 min read

Gaza

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

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

'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)

Hostages

Freed hostages’ daughter weds with parents by her side

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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)

By The JC Leader

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

3 min read

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)

Medicine

Israeli researchers report breakthrough in pre-natal genetic disease screening

By Howard Blas

4 min read

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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 14:16

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

By Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

If a terror group is welcoming government policy, something is seriously wrong

The speech by Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis at Sunday’s hostage rally

3 min read

August 11, 2025 12:46

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis takes part in a 'National march for the Hostages' organised by Stop the Hate UK, in central London on August 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Al Jazeera reporter killed in Gaza strike was ‘head of terror cell’, IDF claims

Five employees of the Qatari-based network were killed when their tent was hit outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

August 11, 2025 11:49

The IDF has claimed that Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terror cell in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Shoah survivor dies weeks after being wounded by Iran missile

Olga Weisberg left behind a husband, who is also a Holocaust survivor, as well as a daughter, grandson and great-grandson.

By JC Reporter

1 min read

August 11, 2025 10:42

A Holocaust survivor from Rehovot has died weeks after being injured in Iranian missile strikes (Pictured: The site of a missile impact in Rehovot on June 16; Image: Flash90)

By Yaakov Katz

Netanyahu’s Gaza options are limited but the biggest constraints are self-inflicted

Attacked by left and right, the prime minister’s plans to seize the Strip’s capital risks deepening the Jewish state’s isolation. The failure to outline a coherent “day after” plan is a huge mistake

4 min read

August 10, 2025 14:41

Protesters gather in a demonstration organised by the families of the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 calling for action to secure their release outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Gantz and Rubio criticise UK, Western moves they say hurt hostage talks

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have accused the UK, France and other allies of undermining the prospects for a ceasefire

By JC Reporter

2 min read

August 10, 2025 11:31

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (Image: Getty)

Budget airline Wizz Air resumes UK flights to Israel

The announcement came as Ben-Gurion Airport saw its busiest day since October 7, 2023

By Etgar Lefkovits

1 min read

August 8, 2025 15:57

Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air has confirmed it will resume flights to Israel in the coming weeks (Image: Getty)

IDF bans Chinese cars from bases over data leak fears

The move follows a deterioration in Sino-Israeli relations over the war in Gaza and allies’ concerns about espionage

By Canaan Lidor

1 min read

August 8, 2025 14:33

A car parked outside an IDF facility Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh

By Josh Feldman

The New Yorker sees Israeli indifference to Gaza – and misses the story

What David Remnick calls a “zone of denial” says far more about his and other Western newsrooms than it does about the Jewish state. It’s a denial of history, of trauma, of the deeply rational fear driving Israeli behaviour

4 min read

August 8, 2025 13:32

David Remnick speaks onstage during The New Yorker Festival, October 07, 2023 in New York City. (Image: Getty)

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Israel

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

Starlink still unavailable for West Bank settlers after Israel roll out

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

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

Freed hostages’ daughter weds with parents by her side

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

Israeli researchers report breakthrough in pre-natal genetic disease screening

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

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