Eliyahu David Kay > Facebook, via Times of Israel.
A member of Hamas launched a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning, killing one Israeli civilian and wounding four others – including worshippers returning from the Western Wall.
What happened
Hamas lauded the attack, in which 26-year-old tour guide Eliyahu David Kay died, as “a…
Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original.
Earlier this month, we marked the tragic assassination in 1995 of Yitzhak Rabin – an event that robbed Israel of a great soldier and statesman. Rabin’s signing of the Oslo Accords appeared to usher in…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace
Step One: Tackle the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with emergency infrastructure plan for improving energy supplies, sanitation and clean water
After more than a decade of war, Israeli and Egyptian restrictions, and Hamas misrule, the humanitarian situation in the coastal enclave is dire: the electricity…
Labour Friends of Israel welcomed Labour leader Keir Starmer as guest of honour to its Annual Lunch this week, which saw capacity crowd in a packed out hall.
Success
The 2021 Annual Lunch was the first to take place since 2018, after previous lunches had to be cancelled due to the calling of the 2019 general election…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP addressing the LFI Annual Lunch.
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Steve McCabe MP
Chair, Labour Friends of Israel
Speech to LFI Annual Lunch
Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Hotovely, friends.
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch.
We wouldn’t be here today…
Labour leader Keir Starmer addressing LFI's Annual Lunch 2021
KEIR STARMER SPEECH FOR LFI ANNUAL LUNCH 2021
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Chief Rabbi, Ambassador, friends. It is a pleasure to be with you today at LFI’s annual lunch – our first opportunity to gather together since 2018.
I want to join Steve in thanking today’s co-sponsors, Sir David…
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The economy of the Palestinian territories is exhibiting “signs of recovery” despite serious challenges of unemployment and “deteriorating social conditions” in Gaza, a report by the World Bank said this week.
The first half of 2021 saw a growth rate of 5.4 percent, with…
Merav Michaeli. Photo: Ron Kedmi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Merav Michaeli, Israel’s transport minister and leader of the Israeli Labor party, has joined other left-wing MKs in announcing that her party will oppose plans to build new settlements in the West Bank.
During the weekly Labor caucus meeting, Michaeli said: “We will oppose any initiative…
Construction in Jenin > Guillaume Paumier, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Israel has advanced plans for 1,303 new homes for Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank on Monday.
This was the first authorisation of its kind under the new coalition government came to power in June, and the first since the Biden administration was…
Israeli settlements in the West Bank > TrickyH, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The approval of some 3,000 housing units for Israeli settlers in the West Bank has drawn criticism from left-wing voices in the Israeli government, as well as the Biden administration.
1,804 housing units received final approval for construction last week, while a…
