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RFK Jr denies claim he said Covid was ‘targeted’ to ‘spare Jews’ in confirmation hearing

The prospective Health Secretary faced questions about comments he made when he was a presidential candidate

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RFK Jr denied that he had claimed Covid-19 was 'ethnically targeted' during a torrid Senate confirmation hearing (Image: C-Span)

Left to right: Arbel Yehoud, 29, Agam Berger, 19, and Gadi Moshe Mozes, 80, are the hostages set for release on January 30, 2025 (Courtesy)

Who are the three Israeli and five Thai hostages set to be released today?

Agam Berger has already been freed this morning after 482 days in captivity

By Imogen Garfinkel

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Left to right: Arbel Yehoud, 29, Agam Berger, 19, and Gadi Moshe Mozes, 80, are the hostages set for release on January 30, 2025 (Courtesy)

Gadi Mozes named as third Israeli hostage to be freed tomorrow

The 80-year-old will be released alongside Arbel Yehoud and Agam Berger

By Imogen Garfinkel

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The Democratic contingent in the US Senate has blocked a bill that would impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (Image: Getty)

Senate Democrats block ICC sanctions bill

Republican lawmakers had looked to crack down on the court following its decision to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, including Benjamin Netanyahu

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Caravan packed with explosives and list of Jewish addresses seized in Australia

The discovery follows a spate of antisemitic arson and vandalism attacks in the country

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Freed hostage credits Liri Albag with saving her life during brutal Hamas captivity

Amit Soussana claimed that the terror group ‘chained her like an animal’ and were planning to execute her

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Netanyahu to be first foreign leader to meet Trump in second term

The meeting will be used to ‘promote security, stability and our shared democratic values’, according to Trump allies

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Revealed: ‘Jihadi lioness’ has been hosted by more London charities

Syeda Umme Farwa runs her own Islamic charity – located minutes from a synagogue – where she reportedly memorialised Iranian terrors leader as ‘martyrs’

By Jane Prinsley

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Syeda Umme Farwa, who runs the UK-registered charity Labaik Ya Zahra (LYZ), appeared on a list of “jihadi lionesses” compiled by an Iranian outlet (Photo: Facebook)

Israel’s new US ambassador suggests Saudi normalisation on the brink

Yechiel Leiter, who began his new appointment on Friday, hinted that a breakthrough in relations with the Gulf state could be on the horizon

By Daniel Ben-David

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Yechiel Leiter has hinted that Israeli-Saudi normalisation is be 'closer than ever' (Image: X/Yechiel Leiter)

Israeli Politics

Smotrich working on ‘operational plan’ to resettle displaced Palestinians outside of Gaza

The far-right minister said he is trying to turn the idea outlined by US President Trump into concrete policy

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Far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich confirmed he is working on an 'operational plan' to resettle some Palestinians from Gaza to countries like Jordan and Egypt (Image: Getty)

Holocaust Memorial Day

‘The Jewish community has been reborn’ says King Charles in Krakow

His Majesty also went to a community centre inspired by his conversation with a Holocaust survivor, which sits just miles from the site of the camp

By Daniel Ben-David

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Britain's King Charles III looks at belongings of people once deported to Auschwitz (Getty Images)

King Charles warns of ‘dangerous re-emergence of antisemitism’ during HMD visit to Poland

The King will become the first British monarch to visit Auschwitz during today’s commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Poland

By Eliana Jordan

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King Charles speaks at the Jewish Community Centre Krakow during his visit to Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (Photo: Getty Images)

‘I fear for the future of my children here’, says Jewish protester dragged out of Irish Shoah event

Another Jewish protester tells JC she was forcibly removed despite telling security staff she was pregnant

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Lior Tibet says she was forcibly removed from the Holocaust Memorial Day event after turning her back on the President during his speech (Image: X)

Eichmann trial records brought to light for Holocaust Memorial Day

The State Archives in Israel have created a searchable database of the more than 380,000 pages of rare historical material

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Records of Adolf Eichmann's trial are being released to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (Image: Getty)

‘Neo-Nazi’ who dressed up as Orthodox Jew to sneak into Jewish community centre denied bail

Travis Garland dubbed the stunt an ‘internet prank’ but his alleged social media posts suggest a more sinister motivation

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Travis Garland was caught on CCTV trying to enter a Jewish community centre while dressed as an Orthodox Jew (Image: Stop Antisemitism)

Protestors dragged out during Irish president’s ‘politicised’ Holocaust speech

Several Jews were escorted from the venue after turning their back on Michael D Higgins

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President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina arriving at a Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Mansion House in Dublin. (Alamy)

Musk urges German far-right to move beyond ‘past guilt’ in AfD campaign appearance

Tech billionaire tells German crowd: ‘It's good to be proud of German culture, German values’

By Jane Prinsley

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Elon Musk speaks live via a video transmission during a speech by Alice Weidel, chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Hamas names four female hostages to be released tomorrow

The group of women will be exchanged for dozen of Palestinian prisoners, according to Israeli officials

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(Clockwise) Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy

The battle against antisemitic attitudes is far from won

ADL’s recent global survey of attitudes in 103 countries and territories is key to undertanding what is happening

By Andrew Srulevitch

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Members of Swedish neo-Nazi group National Socialist Front (Getty Images)

Australian University blasted for ‘disturbing antisemitic lecture’ during ‘anti-racism’ conference

An event hosted by the university saw speakers accuse Jewish groups of being complicit in the spread of ‘racism, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiment’

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The Queensland University of Technology has been blasted after a speaker at its 'anti-racism' conference was accused of presenting an antisemitic slideshow (Image: X)

We could support Trump if he seeks the ‘ultimate’ Middle East deal, says leader of US Jewish left

Jeremy Ben-Ami has a bold new vision for Israeli-Palestinian relations

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The head of J Street, the influential liberal Zionist advocacy group, has indicated it could support Donald Trump if his policies work towards peace in the Middle East (Image:Getty)

Jewish nominations at the Oscars: A look at the 2025 contenders

The Brutalist picks up 10 Oscar nominations

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Timothee Chalamet arrives for the premiere of the Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" (Image: Getty)

What is going on in the West Bank?

Israel has ramped up IDF operations in Jenin, apparently to counter rising terrorist threats in the territory

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The IDF has launched a 'significant' operation in Jenin, West Bank (Image: Getty)

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