The parliament of Oman, which has widely been speculated to be a prime candidate for future diplomatic normalisation with Israel, voted last week to criminalise relations or interactions with “the Zionist entity”. The legislation would “severe any economic, sports or cultural relations” and “prohibit dealing in any way or means, Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel was delighted today to partner with the Jewish Labour Movement to organise a series of sessions on Israel and the Middle East as part of their one-day conference. First up was a fascinating discussion between Dame Louise Ellman and Labour’s shadow Middle East minister Bambos Charalambous, Read more…
Last week, Likud Knesset member Danny Danon told an international Abraham Accords forum that he expects to “see an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia in the coming year.” Diplomats, business leaders and high ranking academics gathered in Rome at the Abraham Accords Global Leadership Summit to discuss ways to expand Read more…
The escalating situation in the West Bank is likely to only get worse in the coming year as current tensions should not simply view this as a ‘wave of terror’ according to several Israeli officials. Brig. Gen. Amit Saar said that Iran will be the most challenging issue posing Israel Read more…
Isaac Herzog this week returned to Israel after a two-day visit to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The Israeli President’s visit underlined the changed relationship between the two Gulf states and the Jewish state following the Abraham Accords, while also highlighting some potential difficulties on the horizon. What happened Read more…
Israel’s outgoing transportation minister and leader of the Israeli Labor party, Merav Michaeli, on Monday set out her view that recent violence in Israel was directly linked to violence in the West Bank and the political rise of the far right. “A straight line connects the violence against Arabs and Read more…
An Israeli woman was seriously wounded on Tuesday following a car ramming attack in the West Bank. Surveillance footage of the attack near the West Bank settlement of Migron, north of Jerusalem, showed a black SUV turning to drive into a female soldier. The vehicle rammed into the woman on Read more…
19 people have been injured, with one confirmed casualty, following two explosions in West Jerusalem this morning in what is thought to be a double terror attack. A third bomb was defused last night on the light rail track near Jerusalem’s central bus station. The first victim of the attack Read more…
*** Check against delivery *** Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch Tuesday 22 November 2022 Steve McCabe MP, Chair Labour Friends of Israel Introduction Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Hotovely, friends. It’s my great pleasure to welcome you to Labour Friends of Israel’s Annual Lunch. We wouldn’t be Read more…
The Allenby Bridge border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan opened to passenger traffic for 24-hours a day last week for the first time. The extended hours pilot, which ran for almost a week, was part of an agreement the Israeli government made with US President Joe Biden during Read more…
This afternoon, a number of LFI parliamentary supporters attended an ELNET briefing from the Jewish Chronicle‘s David Rose on the Palestinian Authority’s increasing authoritarianism and corruption, co-hosted. Democratic reform in the PA is a vital prerequisite to making a two-state solution a reality. The briefing was also addressed by LFI Read more…
Israel and its eastern neighbour Jordan have agreed to advance a joint green energy and water deal at the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt this week. The agreement, brokered by the United States and UAE, involves Israel constructing a designated desalination plant to export more water to Jordan, Read more…