MDA UKMDA launches new mission inviting volunteers to support Israel’s post-October 7 recoveryParticipants will visit the Druze community in the north and spend a night in Tel Aviv, hearing stories from medics and citizens rebuilding their lives post-warBy Imogen Garfinkel1 min read
Charedi‘It could be a civil war’: can Israel persuade the Charedim to enlist?A long-standing internal conflict over military exemption for the strictly Orthodox has reached breaking pointBy Imogen Garfinkel7 min read
HostagesJNF UK welcomes home freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen‘I can’t find the words to describe what it felt like to hug him again’By Daniel Ben-David4 min read
October 7Community comes together in solidarity, determination and defiance 500 days after October 7‘Against all odds, we don’t just survive. We thrive’By Gaby Wine5 min read
October 7Gender-based violence increases in Israel since October 7Expert Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari was in the UK to speak at a Jewish Women’s Aid eventBy Jane Prinsley4 min read
October 7First request for UK pro-Palestine protest came during October 7 attackDocuments released by the Met Police shows an application to protest against Israel came while the IDF was still fighting to expel Hamas terroristsBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
By Ariella Knoble-Gershon‘Israelis stop and thank us for campaigning for the hostages’The Board of Deputies has been holding a weekly vigil opposite Downing Street for over a year2 min read
Warrior women: How October 7 spurred a female IDF revolutionEnlistment of women in Israeli combat units has surged by more than 20 per centBy Eliana Jordan3 min read||February 5, 2025 11:48
The motor-sensory playrooms that double as sheltersWIZO UK helps fund a number of initiatives to support people of all ages living in Israel following October 7By JC Reporter3 min read||February 4, 2025 16:38
In the desert oasis of Kibbutz Ketura, Israelis and Palestinians work together to build a green futureStudents at the Arava Institute put their differences aside to imagine and build a peaceful Middle EastBy Imogen Garfinkel4 min read||February 3, 2025 12:55
New IDF chief of staff unveiledEyal Zamir to replace Herzi Halevi, who has commanded the military during the 15-month war against Hamas in GazaBy JC Reporter1 min read||February 2, 2025 12:04
Yarden Bibas was ‘beaten and held in cages’ by Hamas terroristsReports say that he and fellow hostages were frequently given empty promises by Hamas that they would be releasedBy Gaby Wine3 min read||February 2, 2025 09:16
Freed British hostage Emily Damari says she was held in Unrwa facilitiesBritish-Israeli hostage told Keir Starmer that she was kept in UN-funded locationBy Jane Prinsley1 min read||January 31, 2025 13:19
What would Rabbi Sacks have said after October 7?New podcast will explore his teachings to gauge how he might have reactedBy Simon Rocker1 min read||January 31, 2025 13:07
‘Will I ever go home again?’ The rebuilding of the kibbutzim ravaged by October 7Residents of Be’eri and Nirim ponder an uncertain futureBy Amelie Botbol 13 min read||January 29, 2025 07:00
The lessons of Auschwitz are being lost, Ron Lauder warns worldIn his address at the 80th anniversary ceremony at the death camp, the Jewish leader references October 7 in a powerful wake-up callBy Daniel Ben-David3 min read||January 28, 2025 13:09
