British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson said the UK and Israel ‘’must stand and work together’’, as he addressed an event organized by the Conservative Friends of Israel in Birmingham.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has called on Diaspora Jews to strengthen their connection with Israel and for greater engagement with Israel among the younger generation.
The role of Holocaust education in a country where almost 1 million Jews were slaughtered is a complicated thing when the country in question is in the throes of shaping a fresh national identity and national memory for itself from very raw emotional material; even more so when it’s locked at the same time in a simmering military conflict against Russia, one of its former occupiers along with Nazi Germany during World War II.
The population of Israel stands at 8.585 million at the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the Central Bureau of Statistics said in its report.
The last of Israel's founding fathers, former Israeli President Shimon Peres and winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize died Tuesday after suffering a stroke two weeks ago.