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IDF ‘shadow command’ was placed on standby in case Iran knocked out Israeli leadership

The secretive ‘Shadow General Staff’ was moved to a secret location ahead of the June 13 opening strike on Iran's nuclear program.

By JC Reporter

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The IDF established a 'Shadow Command' in case Israeli leaders were killed by Iranian strikes during the recent war (Image: Getty)

Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, centre, at an anti-Israel protest outside the White House (Image: Getty)

Neturei Karta

Israel permanently bans Neturei Karta’s US spokesman from entry

By JC Reporter

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A group of senior sheikhs in Hebron, led by Sheikh Wadee' al-Jaabari, has expressed a desire for the territory to break away from the PA and join the Abraham Accords as an independent emirate (Image: Wadee' al-Jaabari)

Israel

Hebron sheikhs ask to break with PA and join Abraham Accords

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Gaza

‘It could be the beginning of the end for us’ -Hamas control over Gaza has ‘collapsed’, senior official confirms

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Smoke rises over the southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2025 (Credit: Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Donald Trump

Israel to continue ceasefire talks in Doha on Sunday despite ‘unacceptable’ latest amendments from Hamas

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

An old Armored Tank brought from Syria as seen at the Oz 77 Armored Battalion Memorial site with the names of the new fallen IDF soldiers, not far from Birkat Ram, northern Golan Heights, May 15, 2025. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90

Torah

Beware an over-reliance on power, the rabbis warned

By Benedict Roth

3 min read

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu (Getty: Image)

By Joan Ryan

Starmer should push British interests – by backing Israel

3 min read

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Miss Indonesia pageant removes contestant after pro-Israel video goes viral

A social media video showed Merince Kogoya participating in a Zionist rally, waving the flag of the Jewish state and dancing

By JC Reporter

1 min read

July 3, 2025 14:36

Merince Koyoga was dropped from the Miss Idonesia pageant after a video of her at a pro-Israel parade went viral (Image: Instagram/@kogoya_merry)

By Gabriel Epstein

Responsible reporting on the real death toll in Gaza must start now

War is chaos, but careful and rigorous study and reporting of death tolls remain essential

5 min read

July 3, 2025 10:50

Palestinians look for survivors in the rubble of the Shaheen family home, in the Saftawi neighbourhood, west of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, after it was targeted in an Israeli strike on June 9, 2025. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP) (Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)

MPs back government’s ban on Palestine Action

House of Lords will now debate the government’s measures to proscribe the group

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

July 2, 2025 17:09

Protesters show a banner reading 'We are all Palestine Action' during a Palestine Action demonstration at Trafalgar Square on June 23, 2025 in London, England. (Getty Images)

British Jewry raises £1.7 million to support wounded IDF veterans

Beit Halochem or ‘House of Warriors’ is Israel’s only government-recognised charity serving wounded veterans

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

July 2, 2025 16:40

Eden Ram speaks at Beit Halochem annual dinner 2025 (Credit: Chiko Photography)

By Shany Mor

When Israeli civilians die, human rights norms disappear

The laws of war are universal, except – it seems – when the Jewish state is involved. Iran’s missile barrage revealed a moral and legal double standard

4 min read

July 2, 2025 15:23

Israeli paramedics and forces are on the scene where buildings are destroyed as a result of Iran's missile attack in Tel Aviv on June 22, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Iran-linked hackers threaten to release White House email cache

The Trump administration has rubbished the claim, calling it a ‘calculated smear campaign’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

July 2, 2025 13:59

A group of Iranian-backed hackers has threatened to release a cache of emails allegedly stolen from senior White House officials (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

The anti-Israel BBC requires root-and-branch reform

This latest scandal is not a blunder. It is the result of a culture that treats the Jewish state as uniquely suspect

3 min read

July 2, 2025 13:21

Thousands protest the BBC's refusal to label Hamas as terrorists, outside Broadcasting House in October 2023 (Image: Getty Images)

Israel to build new power plant in the West Bank

Energy Minister Eli Cohen said the project, which will serve Israeli settlements, was ‘long overdue’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

July 2, 2025 10:11

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has announced plans to build a new power plant in the West Bank (Image: Flash90)

Israel has agreed to 60-day Gaza ceasefire, Trump says

The reported deal is said to allow Hamas to hold onto a limited number of hostages

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

July 2, 2025 09:55

US President Trump has claimed that Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza (Image: Getty)

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IDF ‘shadow command’ was placed on standby in case Iran knocked out Israeli leadership

Israel permanently bans Neturei Karta’s US spokesman from entry

Hebron sheikhs ask to break with PA and join Abraham Accords

‘It could be the beginning of the end for us’ -Hamas control over Gaza has ‘collapsed’, senior official confirms

Israel to continue ceasefire talks in Doha on Sunday despite ‘unacceptable’ latest amendments from Hamas

Beware an over-reliance on power, the rabbis warned

Starmer should push British interests – by backing Israel

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