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 accompanied by LFI chair Steve McCabe on a delegation primarily focused on Israel’s health tech and Read more…
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 ceremony on Monday at the President’s Residence. President Isaac Herzog, Read more…
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 well as the Islamist Ra’am – came to power last Read more…
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 Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al Nahyan and Bahraini king Hamad Read more…
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 of making “anti-historical statements” that “largely explain why the current Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Eighteen: Oppose unilateral actions by either side The sole route to a viable, sustainable two-state solution is through a settlement resulting from direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. While Israel was right to withdraw from Read more…
The UK Labour Party has this week hosted nine staffers from the Israeli Labor Party, including deputy mayor of Tel Aviv Chen Arieli and Havoda chief executive Nir Rosen. The group met with Labour leader Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner, were hosted for dinner by Shadow Health Secretary Read more…
The leader of the Israeli Labor party has expressed hope the ideologically diffuse “change government” which came to power last summer will survive, despite losing its Knesset majority earlier this month. Speaking on Monday, Merav Michael said the parties – which range from prime minister Naftali Bennett’s right-wing Yamina party Read more…
Israel’s health minister and leader of Meretz, Nitzan Horowitz, visited western Ukraine on Sunday to see an Israeli field hospital set up following Russia’s invasion of the country. The field hospital, named Kochav Meir (‘Shining Star’), opened two weeks ago some 90 minutes west of Lviv. More than 1,500 Ukrainian Read more…
Last week’s series of terror attacks against Israel and the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan have collided to raise tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank this week. What happened Following the start of Ramadan last week, Jerusalem’s Old City has seen minor clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police, Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Sixteen: Support steps towards a permanent Gaza ceasefire Hamas’ refusal to renounce violence and terrorism, accept Israel’s right to exist within the framework of a two-state solution, and agree to abide by past diplomatic agreements makes the Read more…
The Israeli government has raised the number of permits for residents of the Gaza Strip to work in Israel by some 8,000, bringing the total to 20,000, according to the country’s Ministry for Regional Cooperation. The cabinet signed off the government resolution on Sunday, coming as Israel seeks to reduce Read more…