{"id":2343503,"date":"2026-03-24T12:32:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2343503"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:32:36","slug":"king-becomes-patron-of-jewish-charity-after-firebomb-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-becomes-patron-of-jewish-charity-after-firebomb-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"King becomes patron of Jewish charity after firebomb attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>The King also praised the CST\u2019s \u201cwonderful work\u201d protecting Jewish sites around the country. He met victims, including worshippers who helped to barricade the door against the lone terrorist, as well as Yoni Finlay, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/10\/07\/i-no-longer-want-to-live-in-britain-says-synagogue-victim\/\">who was wounded in the attack<\/a>, and his family, who were in the building at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Levy, the chairman of the synagogue\u2019s trustees, said: \u201cFor the King to say that he\u2019s here to help us in just a small way is just a bit mind-blowing and quite surreal really&#8230; And it\u2019s not in a small way that he\u2019s helping, believe me. It means a great deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The monarch\u2019s long-standing links to the Jewish community led to one of his first engagements as King. In December 2022, three months after his mother\u2019s death, he visited the head offices of CST and London\u2019s JW3 community centre, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2022\/12\/16\/king-charles-dances-anne-franks-step-sister-visit-jewish-charity\/\">a hub for the Jewish community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The King\u2019s relationship with JW3 goes back decades: as Prince of Wales, he gave a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the Board of Deputies. A transcript was buried in a JW3 time capsule in 2013 and is due to be dug up in 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night\u2019s annual CST dinner was attended by more than 1,200 guests, including donors, politicians from all major parties, MPs, police officers, communal partners and other supporters of the charity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King also praised the CST\u2019s \u201cwonderful work\u201d protecting Jewish sites around the country. He met victims, including worshippers who helped to barricade the door against the lone terrorist, as well as Yoni Finlay, who was wounded in the attack, and his family, who were in the building at the time. Alan Levy, the chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2343504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[436503,364881,183049,452254,397340,21738,22769,453189,344742,345946,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2343503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-anti-semitism","tag-iran","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-live-amp-breaking","tag-metropolitan-police-service","tag-news","tag-royal-family","tag-shabana-mahmood","tag-standard","tag-top-story","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/King-becomes-patron-of-Jewish-charity-after-firebomb-attack.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343505,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343503\/revisions\/2343505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}