Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Israel since 2022,having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He is the chairman of the Likud party. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history,having served for a total of over 16 years. He is also the first prime minister to have been born in Israel after its establishment.
Shlomo Argov was an Israeli diplomat. He was the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom whose attempted assassination led to the 1982 Lebanon War.
Jewish National Fund is a non-profit organization founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria for Jewish settlement. By 2007,it owned 13% of the total land in Israel. Since its inception,the JNF has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. It has also built 180 dams and reservoirs,developed 250,000 acres (1,000 km2) of land and established more than 1,000 parks.
Michael Bornstein Oren is an American-Israeli diplomat,essayist,historian,novelist,and politician. He is a former Israeli ambassador to the United States (2009–2013),former member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party and a former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.
The State of Israel and the Republic of Turkey formally established diplomatic relations in March 1949. Less than a year after the Israeli Declaration of Independence,Turkey recognized Israeli sovereignty,making it the world's first Muslim-majority country to do so. Both countries gave high priority to bilateral cooperation in the areas of diplomacy and military/strategic ties,while sharing concerns with respect to the regional instabilities in the Middle East. In recent decades,particularly under Turkey's Erdoğan administration,the two countries' relationship with each other has deteriorated considerably. However,diplomatic ties were reinstated after a successful normalization initiative in mid-2022.
Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles is a British former diplomat. He was the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009–2010. After leaving the Foreign Office,he worked briefly for BAE Systems as international business development director. He left BAE Systems in 2013 and is now a senior adviser to the group chairman and the group chief executive of HSBC. He is also president of the Jane Austen Society.
A bilateral relationship exists between Armenia and Israel. From 1993 to 2007,Armenia was served by the Embassy of Israel in Georgia. In 1996,Tsolak Momjian was appointed the honorary consul of Armenia in Jerusalem. Eleven years later,the residence of the Embassy of Israel in Armenia was moved to Jerusalem. In October 2010,Shmuel Meirom was appointed the Israeli ambassador to Armenia. Armen Melkonian was appointed the Armenian ambassador to Israel in 2012,with a residence in Cairo. In October of that year,Melkonian presented his credentials to Israeli President Shimon Peres. On 21 September 2019 Armenia announced that it would be opening an embassy in Israel. Despite generally cordial ties between the two,relations soured after Armenia withdrew its ambassador to Israel due to Israeli arms supply to Armenia's enemy,Azerbaijan,in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The Israel lobby in the United Kingdom are individuals and groups seeking to influence the foreign policy of the United Kingdom in favour of bilateral ties with Israel,Zionism,Israel,or the policies of the Israeli government. As any lobby,such individuals and groups may seek to influence politicians and political parties,the media,the general public or specific groups or sectors.
The State of Israel is represented in the Russian Federation through an embassy in Moscow and a consulate-general in Yekaterinburg. Russia is represented in Israel through an embassy in Tel Aviv and a consulate in Haifa. Russia is a member of the Quartet on the Middle East. For many years,Israel was a haven for Russian Jews. This was especially the case during the aliyah from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1990s. Israel and the Soviet Union,Russia's predecessor state,were on opposing sides during the Cold War. However,the relationship between Israel and Russia has improved significantly since the early 2000s,with the election of the more pro-Israel Russian leader Vladimir Putin,and the election of the more pro-Russia Israeli leader Ariel Sharon. Putin has had a close relationship with long-serving Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The diplomatic relations between Israel and Serbia were established on January 31,1992,when Serbia was part of FR Yugoslavia. Israel has an embassy in Belgrade and Serbia had one in Tel Aviv. Yugoslavia was the second country in Europe to recognize Israel in 1948. The two countries have economic and cultural ties,helped by a sizable community of Jews from the former Yugoslavia in Israel. Serbia agreed to move its embassy to Jerusalem on 4 September 2020 but decided not to after Israeli recognition of Kosovo as a sovereign state,something Serbia disputes.
Tzipi Hotovely is an Israeli far-right diplomat and former politician who serves as the current Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom. She served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs,Minister of Diaspora Affairs,Minister of Settlement Affairs,and as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party.
Israel–United Kingdom relations,or Anglo-Israeli relations,are the diplomatic and commercial ties between the United Kingdom and Israel. The British embassy to Israel is located in Tel Aviv. The UK has an honorary consul in Eilat and a non-accredited consulate-general in Jerusalem,that represents the United Kingdom in that city and the Palestinian territories. Israel has three representative offices in the United Kingdom:an Embassy located in London and consulates in Cardiff and Glasgow.
Antisemitic incidents escalated worldwide in frequency and intensity during the Gaza War,and were widely considered to be a wave of reprisal attacks in response to the conflict.
Relations have existed between Bahrain and Israel since Bahrain achieved its independence in 1971. In recent years,relations between the two countries have been thawing,and the countries agreed to establish diplomatic relations in September 2020. The foreign minister of Bahrain Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa has been quoted saying "Israel is part of the heritage of this whole region,historically. So,the Jewish people have a place amongst us." The common threat of Iran has provided common ground for a thaw in what were once tense relations. Bahrain's foreign policy traditionally supports the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) is a not-for-profit press monitoring organisation and lobbying group that emerged in mid 2009. MEMO is largely focused on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict,but writes about other issues in the Middle East as well. MEMO is pro-Palestinian in orientation and supports Islamist causes. MEMO is regarded as an outlet for the Muslim Brotherhood and its website strongly promotes pro-Hamas related content.
David Melech Friedman is an American bankruptcy lawyer and the former United States Ambassador to Israel. He joined the law firm Kasowitz,Benson,Torres &Friedman in 1994,where he met and represented Donald Trump,then chairman and president of The Trump Organization.
The bronze bust of former British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill at Mishkenot Sha’ananim,Jerusalem was created by portrait sculptor Oscar Nemon. Anthony Rosenfelder,together with MK Isaac Herzog,initiated the process of erecting the bust of Churchill in Jerusalem.
NHSX was a United Kingdom Government unit from early 2019 to early 2022,with responsibility for setting national policy and developing best practice for National Health Service (NHS) technology,digital and data,including data sharing and transparency.
NHS COVID-19 was a voluntary contact tracing app for monitoring the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales. It had been available since 24 September 2020 for Android and iOS smartphones,and can be used by anyone aged 16 or over.
The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) is a document meant to outline the bounds of antisemitic speech and conduct,particularly with regard to Zionism,Israel and Palestine. Its creation was motivated by a desire to confront antisemitism and by objections to the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism,which critics have said stifles legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and curbs free speech. The drafting of the declaration was initiated in June 2020 under the auspices of the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem by eight coordinators,most of whom were university professors. Upon its completion the declaration was signed by about 200 scholars in various fields and released in March 2021.
