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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

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)

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

By Dennis Ross

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

5 min read

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)

By Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

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

3 min read

Al Jazeera

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

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

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)

Israel Iran War

Shoah survivor dies weeks after being wounded by Iran missile

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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)

By Yaakov Katz

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

4 min read

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (Image: Getty)

Israel

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

By JC Reporter

2 min read

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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 14:57

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 13:33

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 12:32

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

By Philipp Peyman Engel

Israel is the only nation in history accused of starving those it feeds

A lie amplified by Western media and feckless politicians – who have abandoned the hostages and increasingly abandon Israel itself – is fueling a new wave of unashamed antisemitism

4 min read

August 8, 2025 10:14

Thousands of pallets of humanitarian aid already inside Gaza were waiting to be picked up and distributed from the crossings by UN agencies and international organizations. (Image: COGAT)

Israeli Security Cabinet approves plan to occupy Gaza City

The move fell short of the full occupation of the Strip, reportedly favoured by Prime Minister Netanyahu, after opposition from IDF leadership

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

August 8, 2025 09:11

Israel has approved a plan for the IDF to occupy Gaza City (Image: Getty)

Who is Tzachi Braverman, the favourite to be Israel’s next ambassador to the UK?

Outgoing ambassador Tzipi Hotovely hinted that Braverman might be posted to London during a recent exclusive JC interview

By Gabrielle Apfel

2 min read

August 7, 2025 14:48

Tzachi Braverman is set to become Israel's next ambassador to the UK (Image: Flash90)

Hostage families launch Gaza flotilla calling for ceasefire and return deal

The tactic mirrors those used by pro-Palestine activists trying to break Israe’s naval blockade of the Strip

By Gabrielle Apfel

2 min read

August 7, 2025 10:58

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum has launched a flotilla to the Gaza shoreline to call for a ceasefire and hostage return deal (Image: Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Belgian MP Darya Safai who escaped Iran ‘torture’ prison reveals IRGC abduction plot

Belgian MP Darya Safai, who fled the Islamic Republic 25 years ago, talks to the JC in an exclusive interview about her fight against the Islamic Republic and how important it is for the world to side with Israel

By Jamie Shapiro

5 min read

August 6, 2025 16:17