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jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
Migdal Ohr has raised more than £1 million in 36 hours towards the building of emergency dormitories and bomb shelters at Zoharim Youth Village in central Israel. The organisation is the country’s largest welfare non-profit educational network, providing services and programmes for disadvantaged and orphaned Jewish children across Israel.
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jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
UK charities including Jewish Women’s Aid (JWA) are calling on Charities Aid Foundation Bank to urgently address serious operational failings caused by the rollout of its new banking system, which has left organisations grappling with administrative chaos and financial risk. The system changes, introduced earlier this month, have caused a number of issues and complications.
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jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
A theatre in Liverpool is reviewing its internal procedures after being contacted by Jewish News about its hosting of a comedian who blames Israel for the murder of the Bibas brothers.
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jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
All three anti-Israel motions presented at the British Medical Association’s annual conference in Liverpool passed on Tuesday with a majority vote. With a total of 45 BMA motions focusing on Gaza, the Jewish Medical Association asked for added security after feeling ‘intimidated and excluded’ at the event. The resolutions, referred to as Motions 41, 42 and 43, have now all been carried and will now become official policy of the BMA policy.
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jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
Organisers of summer tours are waiting for restrictions on travel to Israel from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to ease before confirming they can go ahead. 800 teens are due to take part in educational tours across the Jewish State in July and August.
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3 days ago | 
jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
The government of Bosnia-Herzegovina has apologised for the cancellation of a hotel booking for delegates from The Conference of European Rabbis. As reported by Jewish News, the Swissotel in Sarajevo, the country’s capital, withdrew as a venue for the event following an open letter by a Bosnian federal minister stating that the city “must not be a stage for supporting genocide”. Adnan Delic referred to Israel as a “genocidal entity” committing “shameful crimes against humanity”.
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jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
A Brighton and Hove memorial for those murdered and taken hostage in the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel has been vandalised with faeces. Attendees at the nightly vigil at Palmeira Square were confronted with the excrement on Sunday 22nd June, the day that the bodies of three Israeli hostages were recovered from Gaza. The faeces was deliberately left near the photo of Ofra Keidar (71) – one of the hostages whose remains were returned.
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jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
A Welsh university is looking for a postgraduate student to research the history of Jewish health professionals in the principality. The successful candidate will have their course fees paid, along with an additional budget to cover travel and other expenses. The post is being funded by an endowment from the family of the late Gerald Goodwin, a German Jewish refugee who for decades ran a dental practice in the South Wales valleys.
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jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
Trump says Iran warned US ahead of missile strike on base in Qatar US President Donald Trump claimed Iran gave advance warning before firing missiles at a US military base in Qatar, telling reporters in The Hague: “They said, ‘Is one o’clock okay?’ We said, ‘That’s fine.’”Trump said all 14 missiles aimed at the base were intercepted. The strike, launched Monday, was Iran’s response to US attacks on its nuclear facilities.
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jewishnews.co.uk | Michelle Rosenberg
Seven IDF soldiers died on Tuesday afternoon after an explosion in an armoured personnel carrier in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. An officer and six regular troops from the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion were killed after an IED (improvised explosive device) was attached to their vehicle by terrorists, who then fled the scene. The explosion set the vehicle on fire and all those inside perished as efforts to extinguish the flames failed. The IDF worked for hours to identify the bodies.
