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Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting: Israel’s hospital and treatment technology is 10 years ahead of NHS
Shadow Health Secretary and LFI Parliamentary Supporter Wes Streeting MP has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original.
As the person hoping to become Britain’s next Health Secretary, I don’t mind admitting that the …
In Brief: Arab party announces policy wins from Israel’s coalition govt
The Ra’am party, which supports Israel’s coalition government led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, has announced the reaching of a new agreement with the government regarding unrecognised communities in the southern Negev region of Israel that would allow for …
In Brief: Initial results weaken Hezbollah, strengthen reformists in Lebanon
Elections held in Lebanon last weekend appear to have dealt a blow to the biggest bloc, led by the Iran-backed Shia terrorist group Hezbollah, according to provisional results.
Meanwhile, reformists appeared to have been boosted in the provisional results.
Turnout …
Analysis: Anger after death of “the voice of Palestine”
Palestinians marked “Nakba Day” on Sunday – an annual commemoration of the “catastrophe” of the establishment of the State of Israel – amid high tensions following weeks of clashes at the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa compound and the killing of Al …
Steps to a two state solution: Pressure Egypt to permanently open the Rafah crossing
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace
Step Nineteen: Pressure Egypt to permanently open the Rafah crossing
The Rafah Crossing represents a crucial route to the outside world for the people of Gaza and is …
Analysis: Wes Streeting visits Israel with LFI
What’s happening
- The shadow health and social care secretary is visiting Israel this week with LFI.
- Wes Streeting, a rising star in the party who was first elected to parliament in 2015, is being
In Brief: First Muslim judge promoted to Israel’s Supreme Court
Judge Khaled Kabub was sworn in this week as the first Muslim member of Israel’s Supreme Court.
Kabub was one of a tranche of 81 judicial nominees appointed to various courts who formally took up their positions after a special …
In Brief: Opposition vows to bring down government as Knesset returns
Israel’s opposition, led by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has pledged to bring down the country’s “unity government” as the Knesset returned for its summer session this week.
The eight-party governing coalition – which includes left and right-wing parties, as …
In Brief: Arrests as Hamas welcomes Independence Day terror attack
Two terrorists who murdered three people in Elad on Israel’s Independence Day were arrested by police on Sunday. The suspects, who come from the West Bank village of Rummanah in the Jenin area and have no record of security offences, …
LFI MPs: The existence of Israel is the strongest affirmation of Never Again
Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP and parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP have written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original.
Standing in the former synagogue in the rural Polish town of …
In Brief: Israeli president speaks with Abbas following Jerusalem clashes
Israeli president Isaac Herzog called the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, UAE and Bahrain at the weekend to wish them a happy Eid al-Fitr, his office said in a statement.
He spoke with PA president Mahmoud Abbas, UAE crown prince …
In Brief: Israel’s outrage over Russian Holocaust propaganda
Russia’s foreign ministry this week accused Israel of supporting the “neo-Nazi regime” in Ukraine in the wake of Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s incendiary remarks on the Holocaust.
In a statement on Tuesday, Russia accused Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid …
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