Nathan Jeffay

1 week ago | thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay

GHF said it had distributed 8,000 food boxes – equal to 462,000 meals – but admitted it could not manage the crowd. UN officials criticised the group for bypassing coordination with established humanitarian agencies and putting civilians at risk. Elsewhere, US officials are concerned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may order a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities without American coordination, the New York Times has reported.

1 week ago | thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay

Witkoff said Israel had accepted his draft, which calls for a 45–60 day ceasefire in exchange for the release of ten live and nineteen dead hostages, along with Palestinian prisoners. Israeli officials fear Hamas would breach the agreement after the first release and have rejected the alternate version Hamas claims to support. In Tel Aviv, families of 41 hostages killed in captivity held an emergency press conference. They warned that further military escalation would cost more lives.

1 week ago | thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay

Israel’s National Security Council raised the travel alert level for Canada from Level 1 to Level 2, citing an increased threat from terrorist elements targeting Israelis and Jewish people. The advisory urged Israeli nationals in Canada to take extra precautions and avoid displaying Israeli or Jewish symbols in public.

2 weeks ago | thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay

He said the couple “weren’t the victims of a random crime,” and that the gunman killed them “for one reason and one reason alone – he wanted to kill Jews”. He linked the shooter’s chant of “Free Palestine” to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023  and called the slogan “today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler’”. In the US, Attorney General Pam Bondi condemned the attack as antisemitic and promised “the most severe possible punishment”. Rodriguez is charged with murdering foreign officials.

2 weeks ago | thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay

Lischinsky, who was reportedly German and Christian born and the moved to Israel and converted to Judaism, served in the IDF and studied at Hebrew University. He worked in the embassy’s political department. Milgrim, a Jewish-American woman, held graduate degrees in international affairs and sustainable development and worked in public diplomacy. The couple had planned to get engaged in Jerusalem next week.