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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from R) and his staff meet with British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab and his team at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on August 25, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
August 25, 2020, 5:07 pm
Netanyahu scolds visiting British FM for rejecting Iran sanctions
Prime minister tells Dominic Raab that Israel expects London to back US bid for snapback sanctions, warns of nuke dangers
By TOI staff
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (left) meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in Jerusalem on August 25, 2020. (Courtesy/Miri Shimonovich)
August 25, 2020, 2:51 pm
Ashkenazi tells UK counterpart Israel ‘disappointed’ in Iran arms embargo vote
‘Global effort to stop Iranian aggression has to be expressed in deeds, not only declarations,’ Israeli FM tells British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, at Jerusalem meeting
By TOI staff
Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives at Downing Street in central London to chair the government's Covid-19 daily briefing on April 7, 2020. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)
August 24, 2020, 2:41 pm
British FM heads to Israel to push dialogue with Palestinians
Reiterating London’s opposition to West Bank annexation, Dominic Raab set to meet Netanyahu, Gantz, Abbas on first official visit
By TOI staff
Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Mark Regev delivers a speech at the annual Holocaust Memorial Commemoration event, co-hosted with the Israeli Embassy, in central London on January 23, 2019. - The Foreign Secretary will deliver a keynote speech and unveil the Frank Foley bust. Frank Foley was a British Secret Intelligence Service Officer who in the late 1930s saved thousands of Jews by helping them escape Nazi Germany. (Tolga AKMEN / POOL / AFP)
August 12, 2020, 4:41 pm
After four years in the UK, Mark Regev returns to Netanyahu’s office
Australian-born career diplomat became the prime minister’s spokesperson to the foreign media in Ehud Olmert era; will be replaced as UK ambassador by Tzipi Hotovely
By Raphael Ahren
Tzipi Hotovely at her office in Jerusalem, February 19, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 2, 2020, 3:24 pm
Cabinet confirms Likud’s Tzipi Hotovely as new ambassador to London
Tzachi Hanegbi to replace her as settlements minister; outgoing envoy to UK Mark Regev, formerly Netanyahu’s spokesperson for foreign press, expected to return to his old position
By Raphael Ahren
Britain's then-Foreign Minister Boris Johnson attends the funeral of former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
July 1, 2020, 9:29 am
In Hebrew op-ed, UK’s Johnson implores Israel to drop annexation bid
As ‘passionate’ Israel defender, British PM says he has followed Netanyahu’s plan with ‘sadness,’ warns it will threaten budding relations with Arab states
By TOI staff
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, welcomes Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside Downing Street in London, September 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
June 17, 2020, 12:38 am
Boris Johnson: Israel’s planned annexation breaches international law
British leader says UK has ‘strongly objected,’ to plan but does not answer when asked if he would impose sanctions on Israel if annexation goes ahead
By AP and TOI staff
Tzipi Hotovely at her office in Jerusalem, February 19, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 11, 2020, 12:36 pm
Settlements minister confirms she’ll be Israel’s new ambassador to the UK
Likud’s Tzipi Hotovely, opponent of two-state solution and advocate of unilateral West Bank annexation, to replace Netanyahu’s ex-spokesperson Mark Regev in London this summer
By Raphael Ahren
A general view of the House of Lords chamber in session at the Houses of Parliament in London, September 5, 2016. (AFP/POOL/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
May 13, 2020, 4:09 pm
UK should answer Israeli annexation with harsh economic sanctions, MPs say
House of Lords committee asks government to weigh limiting Jewish state’s preferential access to British markets if it applies sovereignty in West Bank
By Raphael Ahren
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, welcomes Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside Downing Street in London, September 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
May 2, 2020, 1:57 pm
UK lawmakers urge Johnson to sanction Israel if West Bank annexation goes ahead
130 signatories from both major parties say Britain sanctioned Russia over Crimea grab, so any move by Netanyahu must be met with the same response
By TOI staff
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)
From the WebApril 23, 2020, 10:45 pm
UK is quietly scaling back support for Palestinians, government memo shows
Foreign and Commonwealth Office has removed from internal document references to London being ‘strong supporter’ of PA’s state-building efforts, UK Jewish News reports
Illustrative: In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020 photo provided by the U.S. Air National Guard, airmen from the 146th Airlift Wing of the California Air National Guard in Oxnard, Calif., deliver 200 ventilators to the New York Air National Guard's 105th Airlift wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base, adjacent to Newburgh, N.Y. (Senior Airman Jonathan Lane/U.S. Air National Guard via AP)
April 16, 2020, 4:41 am
Netanyahu said to have turned down UK request for ventilators
Israel is currently trying to boost its own stocks and has an export ban in place that blocked sale of life-saving machines; 100 ventilators arrive from US
By TOI staff
Newly-elected Labour Party leader Keir Starmer arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London, April 5, 2020 (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
April 7, 2020, 5:30 pm
New Labour boss is no Corbyn, but unlikely to reverse party’s anti-Israel stance
Keir Starmer expected to avoid internal debates on Middle East as much as possible; his foreign policy chief, by contrast, is known as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause
By Raphael Ahren
Incoming UK Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan. (courtesy UK Embassy, Tel Aviv)
From the WebMarch 14, 2020, 2:35 am
British ambassador to Israel in self-isolation after virus case on flight
UK Jewish News: Envoy Neil Wigan enters quarantine after flying from Israel to UK, invites suggestions for passing the time
Illustrative: An image said to be from a Palestinian school textbook covering physics which shows a Palestinian boy shooting a slingshot at Israeli soldiers. The caption, according to the Daily Mail, reads: 'What is the relationship between the elongation of the slingshot's rubber and the tensile strength affecting it? What are the forces that influence the stone after its release from the slingshot?' (Courtesy IMPACT-se)
February 22, 2020, 6:40 pm
Count the martyrs: UK to review funds for Palestinian schools whose books incite
London says it’ll look at tens of millions given to UN refugee agency; one physics book discusses use of slingshots against IDF soldiers, others praise terrorists
By TOI staff
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