A reality show set on an Israeli kibbutz is on the BBC’s 2018 broadcast schedule, according to press reports. The British TV network is recruiting 10 Jewish participants of various ages and backgrounds to fly over from the UK and spend two weeks volunteering on a kibbutz, an Israeli farming...

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A British Member of Parliament has accused the government of caring more about lucrative business deals with the Iranian regime than British citizens arbitrarily detained in the Islamic Republic. In an essay published Wednesday in The IB Times, Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, wrote that the government was...

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The British Labour Party faces a fresh anti-Semitism controversy after a speaker at a side event at the party’s annual conference called for free speech to extend to Holocaust denial, and activists made a “thinly veiled call to purge Jews” from the party according to one MP, The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday....

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A major counter-terrorism investigation is underway in Britain after a bucket bomb was detonated during rush hour on Friday on a packed London underground train at Parsons Green tube station. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the attack, as authorities raised the terror threat level from severe to critical, meaning that another...

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An unprecedented study of anti-Semitism conducted by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) in Britain revealed that one in three citizens holds at least one anti-Semitic attitude, and showed an “unambiguous” link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. More than 4,000 members of the public contributed...

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The official launch of TLV in LDN, a four-day festival taking place across London that celebrates different aspects of Tel Aviv’s vibrant culture, kicked off Thursday night at the Roundhouse in Camden. Israeli Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan was joined by the United Kingdom Secretary of State for...

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The first of El Al Airlines new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft arrived in Ben Gurion Airport Wednesday, marking the delivery of one element of the largest ever United Kingdom-Israel trade agreement. The Israeli airline agreed to purchase 15 of the Dreamliner aircrafts from Boeing. The deal included a long term...

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The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany warned Wednesday that Iran’s recent satellite launch was “threatening and provocative,” and defied a United Nations Security Council resolution on the use of missiles. In a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres, ambassadors from the European nations and the U.S. charged that Iran’s launch last week of a...

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The United Kingdom-based Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) reported Sunday that anti-Semitic hate crimes in the country have surged 44% since 2014, making 2016 the worst year on record. However, in only 1.4% of cases was the attack followed by prosecution—just 15 cases last year. One in 10 anti-Semitic crimes were...

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The British Embassy in Tel Aviv published figures for the first time that reveal the number of Israeli companies active in the UK has increased since the Brexit vote last year. From June 2016 to May 2017, 32 new Israeli companies entered the UK market. They invested £152m ($199 million)...

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