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A photograph shows the visitors’ entrance to the British consulate in East Jerusalem after the signs were removed on October 8, 2026. (John Wessels/AFP)
October 8, 2026, 11:32 am
Israel, UK announce last-minute deal that downgrades East Jerusalem consulate
Foreign Minister Sa’ar says move a response to settlement sanctions; UK counterpart Miliband insists Israel doesn’t have right to close office, but says he won’t take reciprocal action
By Lazar Berman and Reuters
A British Airways flight departs Ben Gurion Airport, February 25, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
October 8, 2026, 3:58 am
British Airways planning to resume flights to Tel Aviv on October 25
After repeatedly postponing return to Israel, UK carrier to operate one daily Tel Aviv-London flight, down from its prewar double-daily service
By Sharon Wrobel
A view of the the British Consulate in east Jerusalem after Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced that Israel would close the facility in response to UK sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, September 8, 2026. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
October 5, 2026, 9:47 pm
UK threatens to expel 27 Israeli diplomats if Jerusalem consulate is shuttered – report
After FM Sa’ar orders diplomatic mission closed, London said to warn it will boot one envoy for each member of staff who loses job; resolution talks reportedly ongoing
By Nava Freiberg and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tel Nof air base in a picture distributed on September 29, 2026; Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers his Leader’s Speech during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, September 29, 2026. (Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO, AP Photo/Jon Super)
October 3, 2026, 10:06 pm
Netanyahu accuses UK government of acting ‘like a rogue state,’ says Israel saved British lives
PM says Israeli intel helped foil recent terror plot against British airbase, blasts settlement trade ban and Palestinian state recognition as appeasement of ‘Islamist forces’
By ToI Staff
British police officers stand at a checkpoint near RAF Fairford airbase, in Fairford, England September 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
October 1, 2026, 9:20 pm
UK-Iranian dual national arrested in London over suspected terror plot against US-run airbase
British cops question another suspect under caution, search properties in capital as part of ‘hugely complex’ investigation; Netanyahu: Israel provided intel before UK announced settlement sanctions
By Agencies
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivers a speech on the second day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, northwest England, on September 28, 2026. (Oli SCARFF/AFP)
September 28, 2026, 6:07 pm
UK’s FM Miliband boasts that sanctions on settlers have spurred global action
Foreign secretary tells delighted Labour party confab that government approach to Israel has ‘mobilized international community,’ calls Gaza a ‘stain on conscience of the world’
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Left: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 12, 2026. Right: Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, at the Palacio de Viana in Madrid, Spain July 29, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90, Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)
September 23, 2026, 11:30 pm
US officials drafted memo condemning UK’s West Bank trade ban, but never released it
Document reportedly driven by close Huckabee aide claimed sanctions against Israeli settlements contribute to antisemitism, but was binned after White House declined to support it
By Reuters
France’s President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, September 22, 2026. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
September 23, 2026, 6:48 am
Netanyahu decries Macron’s ‘grotesque’ claim that Hamas ‘never operated’ in West Bank
PM notes an Israeli with French citizenship was killed by a Palestinian terrorist just days before; French official tells ToI that Macron meant Hamas ‘doesn’t govern’ the territory
By Agencies and Jacob Magid
UK Labour MK Tahir Ali speaks at a House of Commons session in London, September 14, 2026. (Tahir Ali/X)
September 16, 2026, 5:15 pm
British Labour MP calls for ‘military action’ against Israel, then apologizes
Tahir Ali claims Israel, like Hamas, must be disarmed due to ‘atrocities’; after first doubling down, he retracts call for attack, says he doesn’t ‘support military action anywhere in the Middle East’
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 10, 2026, 10:44 pm
Signaling support for UK sanctions, Olmert decries ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank
After being quoted by British FM in sanctions announcement, ex-PM denounces extremist settlers as a ‘group of murderous criminal terrorists’ seeking ‘to harm, steal, destroy, burn and kill Palestinians’
By ToI Staff
A man works on a fence at a Palestinian-Bedouin family’s house to try to prevent attacks from Israeli settlers on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Taybeh, September 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
September 10, 2026, 2:44 pm
Progressive UK rabbis say West Bank sanctions necessary to combat settler violence
Welcoming measures, several religious leaders denounce ‘repugnant’ violence as counter to Jewish values, in contrast to UK’s chief rabbi, who called announcement a ‘dark day’
By Michael Horovitz
A view of the entrance to the British Consulate in East Jerusalem, September 9, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 9, 2026, 10:57 pm
UK official says behavior of next Israeli government could affect scope of West Bank sanctions
Source says ‘undecided’ if Jewish areas in East Jerusalem will be included in trade ban; settler business owners warn sanctions could force closures, harm Palestinian workers
By Nava Freiberg, Reuters and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump speaks during a Steel Across America event with the Tunnel to Towers Foundation on the Ellipse, September 8, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
September 9, 2026, 11:19 am
Trump, briefed in advance, didn’t ask UK to wait with settlement sanctions — official
Fuming over West Bank trade ban, Israel tells UK to close Jerusalem consulate in 30 days, gives diplomats seven days to leave Gaza coordination center and Ramallah
By Jacob Magid
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband addresses the House of Commons, announcing a ban on all dealings with settlements, September 8, 2026.(House of Commons handout)
September 8, 2026, 9:19 pm
Full speech: Ed Miliband says entire occupation unlawful, slams ‘settler terrorists’ and Israeli government that indulges them
British foreign secretary stresses his own Jewish heritage as he expresses ‘shame’ over what has unfolded in Palestine, alleges ‘ethnic cleansing,’ bans dealings with settlements
In this video grab taken from footage broadcast by the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) via the Parliament TV website in the House of Commons on September 8, 2026, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivers a speech on an import ban of goods from West Bank settlements. (PRU/AFP)
September 8, 2026, 9:19 pm
Denouncing ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank, UK announces ban on all dealings with settlements
Sa’ar, responding to ‘outrageous’ move echoed by 11 countries, says Israel won’t bow to ‘jihadists, Islamists, antisemites, far-leftists and wokes,’ shutters UK consulate in Jerusalem
By Nava Freiberg, Jeremy Sharon, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
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