With final numbers in the Knesset still undetermined, yesterday’s election – the fifth in three years – will likely allow former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a coalition government. Where we are With some 86 percent of votes counted, the bloc of parties loyal to Netanyahu is forecastto win around Read more…
This morning, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and shadow Middle East Minister Bambos Charalambous MP met with a UK-Palestinian Tech Hub delegation of Palestinian start-ups to discuss the opportunities and challenges in Palestinian economic development, a vital aspect of working towards the creation of a Palestinian state. They heard about Read more…
Israel’s president Isaac Herzog will present evidence to US officials during meetings in Washington this week which proves that Iranian drones are being used by Russian forces in Ukraine. Herzog arrived in Washington on Tuesday for a short visit that will include a meeting with President Joe Biden on Wednesday. Read more…
Israelis will go to the polls next week for the fifth time in three years, in an election that has increasingly become a referendum on the return of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Here we go again Following the collapse of the anti-Netanyahu ‘change’ government in June, the election has Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. This year saw the 30th anniversary of the election victory that brought Yitzhak Rabin to power in Israel. Three short years later, after a rare period of hope that the tragic conflict between Israel Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel is delighted to publish its latest policy briefing, Steps to a Two State Solution. The two state solution is the only means by which to guarantee Israel’s security and to preserve its identity as a Jewish and democratic state, as well as to satisfy the legitimate demand of the Palestinian people for Read more…
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jerusalem Post. Click here to read the original. This week, the UK Foreign Office, at last, announced it was imposing a handful of sanctions on Iran as the regime continues to violently crackdown on street protests following the death of Read more…
The Palestinian terror group Hamas has revived relations with the Assad regime in Syria following a decade’s freeze sparked by the Syrian civil war. Hamas, founded in 1987, is committed to Israel’s destruction and its replacement with an Islamic state. The group seized power in the Gaza Strip in a Read more…
Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid on Monday said that he “strongly condemns” Russia’s barrage of fatal bombardments across Ukraine, which he said targeted “the civilian population in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine”. Lapid added that he offered his “sincere condolences to the families of the victims and the Ukrainian Read more…
US president Joe Biden this week congratulated Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid and Lebanese president Michel Aoun on a deal to establish the first mutually agreed boundary between the two countries, ending a decades-long maritime dispute. “You’re making history”, Biden told Lapid, according to a readout from the Israeli Prime Read more…
Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid has accused opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu of supporting the Hezbollah terror group’s propaganda in his criticism of an emergent agreement to demarcate Israel’s maritime border with Lebanon. The step, which was been reported over the weekend, would allow both countries to explore offshore resources, including Read more…
Israel’s government will this week debate broadening its Law of Return to make it easier for Russian draft dodgers to make Aliyah. In the month since Vladimir Putin announced a call up of reservists, some 6,500 Russian citizens have arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, according to Interior Ministry data. Read more…