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Pentagon’s chief Israel planner sacked after ‘death cult’ comments

Colonel Nathan McCormack called the Jewish State America’s ‘worst ally’ and claimed its government was loaded with ‘Judeo-supremacist cronies’

By Andrew Bernard

2 min read

The Pentagon's chief Israel planner Colonel Nathan McCormack (left) has reportedly been sacked from his role after making incendiary posts about the Jewish State on social media (Image: Sergeant Kani Ronningen/US Army photo)

Iran

Khamenei assassination is now ‘an objective’ of Israel’s war

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Dan Brotman in Beirut's Jewish cemetery in 2022, where he found graves dating as recently as 2018. (Photo courtesy of Dan Brotman)

Lebanon

‘I was detained in Lebanon just for being a Jewish tourist’

By Imogen Garfinkel

6 min read

Parliament

Exclusive: Israeli opposition leaders reject MP’s claim they backed UK sanctions

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

Iran

Trump ‘approved plan’ to strike Iran unless eleventh-hour ceasefire agreed

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran struck an Israeli hospital in Be'er Sheva overnight (Image: Flash90)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 622: Iran hits Israeli hospital

By Nathan Jeffay

2 min read

US President Harry S. Truman (1884 - 1972) speaking to Congress on October 23, 1945 (left) US President Donald Trump (right) addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Dan Elbaum

Trump’s Truman Moment

2 min read

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Foreign Office sent Brits stranded in Israel message about imaginary ‘charter flight’

The department insisted that no repatriation flights had been chartered and that the email was an ‘administrative error’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

June 18, 2025 14:51

The British government has evacuated the relatives of its embassy staff from Tel Aviv (Image: Getty)

Israeli-linked hackers claim $90m data theft from major Iranian cryptocurrency exchange

The group, known as Predatory Sparrow, claimed they would release sensitive information in an attempt to get investors to pull their assets out of the system

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

June 18, 2025 13:25

Israeli-linked hacker group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly stolen sensitive data from a major cryptocurrency exchange in Iran (Image: Getty)

Thousands of Birthright participants evacuated from Israel via cruise ‘party’ ship

Some 2,800 young people participating in Birthright have been stranded in Israel after their plans in the country were abruptly cancelled amid escalating conflict with Iran

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

June 18, 2025 13:20

1,500 Birthright Israel participants party on the cruise ship sent to evacuate them to Cyprus (Credit: Mano Maritime)

Passengers kiss the ground as first El Al repatriation flight touches down in Israel

Thousands of Israelis have been left stranded abroad after the war with Iran shut down the country’s airspace

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

June 18, 2025 12:55

The first repatriation flight for Israelis stranded abroad by the Iran-Israel War has landed at Ben-Gurion Airport (Image: Flash90)

By Nick Cohen

Israel’s extreme right is normalising the unthinkable

It is not antisemitic to speak out against the dangerous rhetoric of members of Netanyahu’s government

3 min read

June 18, 2025 12:27

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (Photo:Getty Images)

Trump ‘seriously considers’ Iran strikes as Israel eyes ‘regime change’

The president is reportedly toughening his stance on direct action against the Islamic Republic, including the use of so-called ‘bunker busting’ bombs

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

June 18, 2025 10:04

President Trump reportedly 'seriously considered' direct strikes against Iran during the latest meeting of the National Security Council (Image: Getty)

JC Israel Briefing Day 621: Trump ‘considering Iran strikes’

Plus, Israel accuses France of antisemitism over air show snub

By Nathan Jeffay

5 min read

June 18, 2025 08:26

President Trump reportedly discussed the prospect of direct strikes in Iran with senior officials last night (Image: Getty)

Iran faces running out of ballistic missiles in ‘as little as a week’

What is the ongoing level of threat to Israel – and how is its anti-ballistic missiles system likely to fare given Iran’s remaining stockpiles of missiles?

By Elisa Bray

3 min read

June 17, 2025 16:08

Israeli air defence systems are activated to intercept Iranian missiles over the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on June 16, 2025 (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Every pound we raise for Israel is an act of defiance against attempts to destroy it

The UJIA’s Israel Director outlines the charity’s role in helping rebuild after the Iranian attacks

By Emily Pater

2 min read

June 17, 2025 15:51

BAT YAM, ISRAEL - JUNE 15: Emergency and rescue soldiers search for trapped people around heavily damaged buildings after an overnight missile strike from Iran on June 15, 2025 in Bat Yam Israel. Iran launched a retaliatory missile strike on Israel starting late on June 13, after a series of Israeli airstrikes earlier in the day targeted Iranian military and nuclear sites, as well as top military officials. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

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Pentagon’s chief Israel planner sacked after ‘death cult’ comments

Khamenei assassination is now ‘an objective’ of Israel’s war

‘I was detained in Lebanon just for being a Jewish tourist’

Exclusive: Israeli opposition leaders reject MP’s claim they backed UK sanctions

Trump ‘approved plan’ to strike Iran unless eleventh-hour ceasefire agreed

JC Israel Briefing Day 622: Iran hits Israeli hospital

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