Five Jewish sites vandalised in central Paris

Vandals on Friday night defaced five Jewish sites, including France’s Holocaust Memorial, in the Marais district in central Paris with green paint. Read more

Shavuot 2025: Everything you need to know

This year, Shavuot begins on the evening of June 1. Here’s everything you need to know about one of the major festivals on the Jewish calendar. Read more

US-backed Gaza aid group delivers nearly a million meals on Thursday

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed independent aid distributor, said that it had delivered 997,920 meals on Thursday via three sites, including a new site that opened in Bureij, in central Gaza. Read more

US-backed aid centres expand operations in Gaza

A third humanitarian aid distribution centre opened in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday as part of a U.S.-led initiative to provide direct assistance to Palestinian civilians, according to Israel’s Army Radio military correspondent Doron Kadosh. Read more

IDF: Cannot confirm deaths of Gaza doctor’s children in airstrike

The Israel Defence Forces said it cannot verify claims that nine children from the al-Najjar family were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis over the weekend. Read more

Mia Schem’s hostage-solidarity ribbon confiscated at Cannes

Security personnel at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival on Saturday confiscated a yellow ribbon worn to the event by Mia Schem, a 22-year-old dual Israeli-French citizen and former Hamas hostage, in solidarity with captives still held in Gaza. Read more

Israel’s Yuval Raphael reaches Eurovision Grand Final

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael has advanced to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Grand Final, following a powerful and emotionally resonant performance of her ballad “New Day Will Rise” during Thursday night’s second semifinal in Basel, Switzerland. Read more

ICC cases grind to halt due to Trump sanctions against court, report says

The work of Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, has ground to a halt since U.S. President Donald Trump slapped the top ICC official with sanctions, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. Read more

Third Houthi missile launched at Israel in 24 hours

Israeli air defences early on Wednesday morning intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Yemen, according to the Israel Defence Forces. It was the third such attack since Tuesday night. Read more

New museum opens at Czech industrial site where Schindler saved 1,200 Jews

The Museum of Survivors hosted its first visitors this weekend at the site of an old industrial plant in the Czech town of Brněnec 100 miles east of Prague, in an event timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Read more

80 years after liberation, Holocaust survivors lead March of the Living in Hungary

Eighty years after the fall of Nazi Germany and the liberation of concentration camps across Europe, 60 Holocaust survivors led more than 5,000 participants through the streets of Budapest on Sunday in a solemn and powerful March of the Living, commemorating the victims of one of history’s darkest chapters. Read more

Israel files complaint after delegation threatened at Eurovision opening

Israel’s Kan public broadcaster has filed a complaint with Swiss police after a man was filmed threatening the Israeli delegation during the opening event of the Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday afternoon. Read more

Tel Aviv Uni medical school receives largest-ever donation

Jonathan Gray, president and chief operating officer of the global investment firm Blackstone, and his wife, Mindy, are donating A$195 million (about 450 million shekels) to Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medicine. Read more

Ben-Gvir slams hostage deals with Hamas amid terrorist recidivism

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir lashed out on Friday at Israel’s concessions to Hamas as a “capitulation” to terrorism, citing data on recently freed Palestinian prisoners who resumed attacks. Read more

Abbas meets Putin in Moscow, demands Gaza ceasefire

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the opening of humanitarian aid corridors amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Hamas. Read more

Jewish congratulations for Pope Leo

Congratulations have been sent to newly-elected Pope Leo XIV from Jewish sources in Israel, the United States and Australia. Read more

Nazi recording confirms Hitler ordered Holocaust

Approximately 800 digital recordings and transcripts of Nazi criminals from after World War II were revealed on Saturday, including dramatic and disturbing testimonies that shed light on Nazi methods during the war and Holocaust and on their escape routes. Read more

Israel to launch new Gaza aid distribution plan to bypass Hamas

Israel is preparing to implement a new humanitarian aid distribution system in southern Gaza designed to prevent Hamas from seizing the supplies, according to a report on Tuesday. Read more

Rabbi Smuley Boteach says Australia is a sewer of antisemitism

This past week, I was attacked three times. Not for anything I said, or anything I did—but simply for being Jewish…Rabbi Shmuley Boteach tells the Jewish world. Read more

Yuval Raphael’s emotional journey from Supernova to Eurovision

One morning, when Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the Supernova music festival massacre, was a 6-year-old girl, her father gathered her and her younger brother to announce they were relocating to Switzerland. Read more

IDF chief: ‘Our moral duty is to bring our hostages home’

The nation’s “moral duty” is to bring home the hostages still held by Hamas, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said on Monday. Read more

Quentin Tarantino buys Tel Aviv property for $13.8 million

Renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and his spouse, Israeli singer Daniella Pick, recently bought property in Tel Aviv for an estimated 50 million shekels (~$13.8 million), Hebrew media reported on Sunday. Read more

IDF finds Hamas weapons hidden in UNRWA bags near Rafah

Israeli forces operating in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah discovered a Hamas weapons cache hidden inside UNRWA humanitarian aid bags, the IDF announced on Sunday. Read more

Bar led ‘greatest security failure’ in Israeli history, PM says of Shin Bet chief

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused outgoing Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Ronen Bar of having led the “greatest security failure” in the state’s history. Read more

‘We’ll burn Jews like Hitler did,’ says BBC Gaza contributor

A freelance journalist frequently featured on BBC Arabic has called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did” and praised terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, according to an exposé published in The Telegraph on Saturday. Read more

Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor dead at 109 on Yom Hashoah

Nechama Grossman, Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor, died at the age of 109 on Thursday, coinciding with Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. Read more

Israel denies any role in huge Iran port blast

Israeli officials denied on Saturday any connection to the massive explosion that rocked the Port of Shahid Rajaee, Iran’s largest, on Saturday, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 700 others. Read more

Trump: Willing to ‘lead the pack’ in strike against Iran

If the negotiations on a deal to dismantle Tehran’s nuclear program fail, the United States will lead an attack against it, President Donald Trump said on Friday. Read more

Great-grandson killed in Gaza as Shoah survivor visits Bergen-Belsen

As Magda Baratz, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, was visiting the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where she was held during World War II, her great-grandson was killed in action in Gaza. Read more

Jewish identity hijacked in UK for political vanity

There is no shortage of people willing to sign their names to morally unserious causes…writes Steve Winston. Read more

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