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For Jewish communities around the world, heightened security at synagogues has become a fact of life since Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, as places of worship become targets.

Thursday’s terrorist attack at a Manchester synagogue, which killed two people on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, has raised the stakes at a time England is bitterly divided over surging immigration and the war in Gaza.

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