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Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. 29th June, 2023. Iraqi children play at a mobile amusement park as they celebrate Eid al-Adha in the old city of Mosul northern Iraq. (Credit Image: © Ismael Adnan/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire) EDITORIAL USAGE ONLY! Not for Commercial USAGE!
March 18, 2024, 1:42 pm
Report reveals ‘deep animosity’ towards Jews and Judaism in Iraqi curriculum
Nationalist violence against Jews and Israel is glorified and Iraq’s allegiance to Nazi Germany is defended as serving the Palestinian cause
By JN Reporter
David Sassoon (seated) and his sons Pic: The British Institute for the Study of Iraq
October 2, 2023, 4:35 pm
My family and other dynasties
Ahead of a lecture at the British Institute, Joseph Sassoon tells Jewish News how 100 boxes of family archives changed his perspective and why the Sassoons should not be compared to the Rothschilds
By Michelle Rosenberg
The Sassoon synagogue, Mosul, Iraq. Pic: Edwin Shuker
August 23, 2023, 2:26 pm
Law banning contact with ‘Zionists’ threatens desperate attempts to save the last synagogue in Mosul
Iraq has banned citizens from engaging with any Israeli or 'Zionist' on pain of death, freezing efforts to reconstruct the historic Jewish building built in 1902
By Michelle Rosenberg
Syrian refugee, Samah Aloshi, 3, stands in Zaatari refugee camp near the Jordan-Syria border.
October 12, 2022, 8:10 am
SPECIAL REPORT: ‘We want to live… there is no life here’
Richard Ferrer visits a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan to see how MDA UK is playing a vital role in efforts to ease the world’s worst refugee crisis
By Richard Ferrer in Jordan
June 9, 2022, 2:21 pm
Wounded UK veterans compete and dance in Israel to soundtrack of ‘Habibi Tel Aviv’
Britain can learn a lot from Israel's support for those whose war record is all too visible - and families are learning to bond again after conflicts which so altered their lives
By Justin Cohen
2HGE41X High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, speaks during a news conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Brussels, Belgium, January 20, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool
May 27, 2022, 10:30 am
UK urges Baghdad to repeal law that sees any Iraqi contacting Israel face death
The Foreign Office told Jewish News: "We have expressed strong opposition to the law with leaders across Iraq’s political spectrum and urge them to repeal it at once.”
By Richard Ferrer
May 26, 2022, 3:33 pm
Shock as Iraq votes through bill to ‘execute’ citizens who communicate with Israel
Barbaric new legislation becomes law, meaning the death to anyone contacting Israel or Israelis, after senior Iraqi delegates arrived in London for trade talks.
By Stephen Oryszczuk and Jenni Frazer
2FN8N4H Iraqi demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest to express solidarity with the Palestinian people amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Baghdad, Iraq May 15, 2021. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily
May 26, 2022, 11:05 am
UK ministers in urgent talks with Baghdad over death penalty for contacting Israel
EXCLUSIVE: Government makes dramatic intervention after Jewish News draws attention to bill being discussed in Iraqi parliament
By Jenni Frazer
May 23, 2022, 4:40 pm
Iraq set to ‘execute’ citizens who communicate with Israel
Barbaric new legislation expected to become law, advocating death to anyone contacting Israel or Israelis, as senior Iraqi delegates arrive in London for trade talks.
By Stephen Oryszczuk and Jenni Frazer
Iraqi President Barham Salih (Wikipedia/Source:Communications Division of the Administration of the President of Georgia/ Author: Giorgi Abdaladze, Official Photographer of the Administration of the President of Georgia/(CC BY-SA 4.0))
September 27, 2021, 5:07 pm
Iraq issues arrest warrants for activists who urged normalisation with Israel
Hundreds attended a conference last week which called for the county to establish ties with the Jewish state, which was rejected by Iraqi leaders
By JTA
Iraqi President Barham Salih (Wikipedia/Source:Communications Division of the Administration of the President of Georgia/ Author: Giorgi Abdaladze, Official Photographer of the Administration of the President of Georgia/(CC BY-SA 4.0))
September 26, 2021, 10:34 am
Hundreds of Iraqi leaders call for normalisation of ties with Israel
Iraq’s government rejected the call for normalisation of ties with Israel “was not representative of the population’s [opinion] and that of residents in Iraqi cities”
By JTA
Many Jews chose to leave Iraq after the Farhud in 1941
June 1, 2021, 4:24 pm
Thousands light virtual candles to remember 1941 Iraq pogrom
The campaign, on the 80th anniversary of the Farhud, was developed by businessman and philanthropist David Dangoor
By Michael Daventry
Colin Shieff in Kandahar, Afghanistan
February 26, 2021, 4:51 pm
Desert tales: Under fire from Saddam’s Scuds
Top surgeon Colin Shieff reflects on his role thirty years after the first Gulf War
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Hakham Ezra Dangoor, chief rabbi of Baghdad, pictured with his family in 1910. (Jewish News)
November 24, 2020, 1:20 pm
Special memorial prayer to be recited in memory of Jews from Arab lands
Initiative backed by Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs urges Jews around the world to remember thousands buried in Iran and Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa
By Jewish News Reporter
David and Judy Dangoor with David's dad Sir Naim Dangoor.
June 26, 2020, 9:31 am
Jewish News meets David Dangoor: ‘My dad believed that what he gave, he kept’
Iraqi-Jewish businessman and benefactor Sir Naim Dangoor ploughed millions into helping others, including an inner-city school. Son David continues the tradition
By Stephen Oryszczuk
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