Senior UK and Israeli officials met in London to discuss issues of strategic common interest between the two countries.

The UK-Israel Strategic Dialogue was instituted as an annual forum for discussion in 2008, with the venue switching alternately between Jerusalem and London.

The dialogue, which was hosted by the Foreign Office, was attended by the Director General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry Dore Gold, plus the UK Ambassador to Israel David Quarrey.

The forum took place just a week after two government ministers visited Israel – Foreign Office minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood and Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock, who announced guidelines which will prevent public bodies such as local councils from boycotting specific countries, including Israel.

While in London, Gold was instructed by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ask the government to act over hundreds of mock adverts disparaging Israel, which appeared on the London Underground network.

The guerrilla advertising campaign, organised by London Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian activist group, was part of their ‘’Israeli Apartheid Week’’ campaign castgating companies for doing business with Israel and claiing that the BBC is biased in Israel’s favour.

The city's transport authority said the posters were unauthorized and would be removed, and that they wer "fly posting and therefore an act of vandalism which we take extremely seriously," a spokesman for Transport for London said.