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Of all the funerals that have followed a week of terrorist attacks across Israel, Avishai Yehezkel’s was one of the most poignant.

On Tuesday evening the 29-yearold yeshiva student had been pushing his two-year-old son in his buggy in the hope of getting him to sleep.

But they were approached on the streets of Bnei Brak by a man carrying an assault rifle. Yehezkel managed to phone his brother Ovadia and warn him, then used his body to protect the toddler.

“Last night the world turned upside down,” Ovadia said on Wednesday, at Avishai’s funeral.

“You called me and said, ‘I hear shots, be careful, stay inside the

Border Police officers Yazan Falah and Shirel Aboukrat, both 19 and killed in an attack by two gunmen in Hadera, were buried on Monday

house.’ And that’s it. I heard no more from you.

“You cared for us more than you cared for yourself.”

The boy survived, left alone in the street after his father was shot dead.

In all, five people were killed in

Medical responders take away the body of a victim of the Hadera shooting. Two people were killed. Credit: Ilia Yefimovich/Alamy

the rampage across Bnei Brak, a mostly strictly-Orthodox suburb to the east of Tel Aviv.

Reports said Diaa Hamarsheh, the gunman, dismounted a motorcycle and shot at people, shouting at them in Hebrew to stop.

A gunman fires at passers-by on the streets of Bnei Brak

Three of the victims of the attack in Bnei Brak. From left: police officer Amir Khoury, Ya’akov Shalom and yeshiva student Avishai Yehezkel

Another of his victims was Ya’akov Shalom, who was driving a car in the neighbourhood when he was confronted by Hamarsheh.

Also murdered were two Ukrainian nationals who had been sitting outside a shop in Bialik Street, and police officer Amir Khoury, 32, who had helped to kill the gunman.

The spree may have been inspired by earlier attacks that killed six in two other Israeli cities over the past week.

In Be’ersheva last Tuesday, a man used his car to ram a cyclist and other vehicles. He later emerged from the vehicle to stab pedestrians.

A woman and three men, including a rabbi, were killed. Others suffered stab wounds.

On Sunday, two gunmen shot dead two 19-year-old police officers in the central Israeli town of Hadera.

Several others were injured.

Together, the three attacks marked one of the worst outbreaks of violence on Israel’s streets since the end of the Second Intifada 20 years ago.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said it represented a “new wave of terrorism”.

The security establishment — Israel’s police, military and intelligence services — needed to be “creative” and adapt to a new threat, he said in a statement on Tuesday night.

He added that they must now “read the tell-tale signs of lone individuals, sometimes without organisational affiliation, and to be in control on the ground in order to thwart terrorism even before it happens”.

There was denunciation also from Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, who expressed “his condemnation of the killing of Israeli civilians tonight, empha-

Four Arab diplomats join summit in Negev

by Michael Daventry michael@jewishnews.co.uk @ MichaelDaventry

Four Arab countries sent foreign ministers to the Negev this week for a diplomatic summit that Israel says will now happen every year.

Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates were represented at the two-day meeting, which took place at a resort in the kibbutz of Sde Boker.

US secretary of state Anthony Blinken, who also attended, said the event would have been “impossible to imagine” just a few years ago.

Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid said it was “making history”.

It came two years after the Abraham Accords, a series of agreements that saw Israel normalise its relations with several Arab countries, allowing them to exchange ambassadors and develop business ties.

The six foreign ministers posed for handshakes and group photos, and pledged to expand co-operation in energy and security matters.

They agreed also to work together to counter

Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East.

Lapid said: “This new architecture, the shared capabilities we are building, intimidates and deters our common enemies, first and foremost Iran and its proxies.

“They certainly have something to fear. What will stop them is not hesitation or being conciliatory but rather determination and strength.”

Blinken added: “The United States has and will continue to strongly support a process that is transforming the region and beyond.”

Some of the ministers committed to try to bring other countries into the agreements.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among Arab countries that have never had diplomatic relations with Israel. Sudan, which had shown interest in joining the Abraham Accords before a military coup in the country last year, did not attend the Sde Boker event.

There was no representative either from Jordan, which had a diplomatic relationship with Israel for nearly three decades, even though it has been frosty at times. Its king, Abdullah II, instead made a rare visit to Ramallah where he met the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Bahrain’s foreign minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (right) with Israel’s foreign minister Yair Lapid, who hosted the two-day meeting in the kibbutz of Sde Boker

He said the region “cannot enjoy security and stability without a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue”.

The meeting in Israel was overshadowed by the deadly shooting in the town of Hadera, which was condemned by the four Arab foreign ministers who attended.

Israel-Arab talks also took place this week in Amman with Israel’s defence minister Benny

Gantz meeting Jordanian King Abdullah II to discuss concerns of spiralling violence before Ramadan next month.

Gantz presented Abdullah with the steps that Israel intends to take in order to maintain freedom of worship for Palestinians in Jerusalem during Ramadan, as well as other moves intended to improve the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, his office said.

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sising that the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians only leads the situation to deteriorate”.

Abbas’s message was a rare intervention and reportedly came at the urging of Benny Gantz, Israel’s defence minister, who this year became the first senior Israeli politician in many years to visit him.

What was different about the incidents in Be’ersheva and Hadera was that the perpetrators were Arab citizens of Israel who had pledged fealty to the Islamic State group — an organisation that has managed to strike in Israel only infrequently.

But Hamarsheh, the Bnei Brak gunman, was a 27-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank town of Jenin. The suggestion is that his was an opportunistic copycat attack.

Gantz responded on Wednesday by deploying 1,000 troops to bolster police forces, a visible extra presence on the streets to reassure Israelis who have been shocked by the surge in violence.

Twelve additional battalions will be sent to the occupied West Bank and a further two to the

Sweets are handed out in Deir al-Balah in Gaza in response to the murders. Jewish News has verified the authenticity of this image with the Gaza-based photographer

border with Gaza. Israeli defence agencies, meanwhile, will work on identifying future potential copycat attacks by combing social media, disrupting attempts to exchange weapons and preventing Palestinians from entering Israel illegally.

Yet it is still not clear if the three attacks were carried out by organised terrorist groups or individuals acting alone. The Islamic State group used its propaganda networks to claim responsibility for the Be’ersheva and Hadera attacks, but Israeli authorities have not yet issued a verdict on Bnei Brak.

As Jewish News went to press, no Palestinian group had claimed responsibility for the Bnei Brak shooting.

Five of Hamarsheh’s relatives had been arrested by the Israeli military in the West Bank and were being questioned on Wednesday, while multiple homes across the region were raided and searched.

Just a week ago, there was cautious hope that a more relaxed security regime could be put in place in Israel and Palestine before Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begin in April.

That is now plainly impossible.

A colleague of Yezen Falah, who was shot in Hadera, at his funeral in Kisra-Sumei. Credit: Ilia Yefimovich/Alamy

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Labour’s ruling body proscribes another three hard-left groups

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Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) has voted to proscribe three more organisations at a key meeting of the party’s ruling body.

Two of the groups banned by the party on Tuesday – the Labour Left Alliance (LLA) and the Socialist Labour Network (SLN) – have close links to the organisations outlawed by the party last year.

The third group, Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL), was banned over claims it has operated as an entryist group since backing Jeremy Corbyn’s bid to become leader of Labour in 2015.

At the meeting, it is understood the NEC voted 20-11 to ban LLA, 19-11 to ban SLN and 19-11 to outlaw AWL. Several members of the LLA can also be linked to the Jewish Voice For Labour organisation, set up to defend Jeremy Corbyn over allegations of antisemitism.

A current statement on the LLA website reads: “Ukraine: Troops out! Abolish Nato!”

One of the group’s stated aims is to oppose “attempts to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism and opposes the witch-hunt against the left”.

Labour members at an anti-Starmer protest outside Labour HQ. It is not known if members of banned Labour groups took part

Meanwhile, the SLN website states it was formed “to build a new network for all those expelled, suspended, silenced and alienated by the witch-hunt against the left”.

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The panel was hosted by Raheli Baratz-Rix from the World Zionist Organisation, who said it was important for Jews everywhere to be united on the definition of antisemitism.

“A firm and unequivocal statement is required that anti-Israelism and anti-Zionism are antisemitic,” she said. “We cannot change our painful history, but we must do everything we can to create a better future and a safe place for every Jew in the world.”

Participants agreed Israel needed to become more involved in diaspora communities to better understand their needs and that it needed to encourage countries and large organisations to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.

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Police are investigating suspected racially aggravated assaults after eggs were thrown at worshippers outside an Edgware synagogue.

According to eyewitnesses, in a series of hate crimes between Saturday, 12 March and Saturday, 18 March, passengers hurled eggs from a silver Ford Mondeo.

According to the Metropolitan Police, there were a number of passengers in the car, that was driven around Hale Lane.

Detectives said that while there were no serious injuries, the incident was “incredibly distressing” for victims.

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The National Union of Students has voted in a new president who last week had to apologise for a historic tweet in which she posted the words of an infamous Islamic chant threatening “Jews” with an attack by “the army of Muhammed”.

Shaima Dallali was confirmed as the next NUS leader following a vote at the student body’s annual conference in Liverpool on Monday.

The former City University Students Union president will replace current NUS leader Larissa Kennedy later this year.

The Union of Jewish Students reacted to Dallali’s election by urging her to “come to the table” to discuss concerns over her “extremely challenging views” for its members. Last week Jewish News revealed that Dallali had in 2012 posted an inflammotory tweet stating: “Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa yahud.”

In Islamic tradition, the chant – which means, “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning” – is used as a battle cry when attacking Jews or Israelis. It refers to the Muslim massacre of the Jews of the town of Khaybar in north western Arabia in 628 CE.

Student union president-elect Shaima Dallali

In a statement issued last week Dallali said: “Earlier today I was made aware of a tweet I posted 10 years ago. During Israel’s assault on Gaza I referenced the battle of Khaybar in which Jewish and Muslim armies fought. I was wrong to see the Palestine conflict as one between Muslims and Jews. The reference made as a teenager was unacceptable and I sincerely and unreservedly apologise.”

Further evidence shown to Jewish News confirms that other deleted tweets posted by Dallali included one from November 2020 in which she wrote that Jeremy Corbyn “should never have been suspended” from Labour “in the first place”.

It referred to Corbyn’s suspension after he

claimed that the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report into antisemitism had exaggerated the extent of the problem for political reasons.

Another deleted tweet made by the new NUS leader included statements supportive of the Islamic terror organisation Hamas.

In a statement on Monday evening the Union of Jewish Students said: “The NUS delegates have voted in Shaima Dallali as the next NUS president. Jewish students have spoken to us and raised their concerns over much of the messaging Dallali has put out on her social media in the past – attacking the Jewish community, attacking UJS, and supporting speakers with extremely challenging views. We hope that she will come to the table, work with UJS and understand how to support Jewish students.

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Cracking effort! Matzah maker bakes one million for Ukraine A British matzah maker dedicated its entire factory to producing one million matzahs for Ukraine’s Jewish community this week, after receiving an urgent request from America’s Orthodox Union (OU), writes Jeremy Last.

Workers at Leeds-based Rakusen’s baked through the night to ensure the unleavened bread would be ready to be sent to the war-ravaged country in time for Pesach.

According to the OU, Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has led to severe shortages of matzah this Pesach, both for Jews in the country and refugees who have fled.

This led the OU to get in touch with KLBD, the kashrut division of the London Beth Din, to see if they would be able to work with Rakusen’s to produce an extra run of kosher for Pesach matzah this year.

Some 70,000 boxes have been ordered, equating to nearly a million matzahs. Rakusen’s expects to complete the special production

run by Friday and the packages will be sent to Hungary where they will be transferred to Ukraine.

KLBD’s Rabbi Moshe Royde said: “Rakusen’s finished their main kosher l’Pesach matzah run two weeks ago but, given the huge suffering in Ukraine, we knew we had to help out to ensure Jewish refugees and those still in Ukraine have matzah for Pesach.

“Despite the huge time pressure, we have managed to achieve a very high standard of kosher l’Pesach production and, baruch Hashem, were able to recruit enough mashgichim [kashrut supervisors] to help us oversee the baking. We have been able to label each box manually so it’s clear the matzah is for Jewish refugees.

“Getting the matzot to Ukraine quickly via Budapest has also proven challenging because, owing to Brexit, everything now takes longer but thanks to OU, VH [Vaad Hatzalah], and Rakusen’s teams, we have managed to make all the necessary arrangements.”

The OU, in coordination VH, has been supporting communities in Ukraine and the surrounding countries since the start of the war at the end of February.

Rakusen’s staff had to buy in huge quantities of extra flour, packaging for the boxes and arrange extra staffing. The cost is being covered by the OU and VH. Simon Taylor, the OU’s national director, community projects and partnerships, said: “The OU and VH have a call centre in Vienna, Austria,

Left: Rakusen’s staff make matzah for Ukraine’s Jewish community.

Above: Rabbi Jeremy Conway, director of KLBD, with Rabbi Moshe Royde, Rakusen’s kashrut director

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“Based on the needs they were telling us, we knew we had to procure 20 tonnes of matzah for Pesach.

“We picked up the phone to KLBD in London to ask if they could

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JN panel helps hosts welcoming refugees With the number of British Jews signing up to host Ukrainian refugees reaching at least 1,500, the founder of a UK charity matching refugees with hosts has stressed the importance of treating the refugees as regular guests.

Sara Nathan, the cofounder of Refugees at Home, was speaking at Hope and Homes for Ukrainian Refugees, a Jewish News-organised online forum, where a panel of experts gave practical advice for people interested in hosting those fleeing the Russian invasion.

Speakers included World Jewish Relief president Henry Grunwald and chair Maurice Helfgott, Daniel Hall of the Joint Refugee Action Network and Rachel Griffiths of Citizens UK. Special guest, the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, kicked off the event. Referencing last week’s Haftorah, he spoke about how, throughout history, Jews have been on the move while fleeing persecution. He said: “[Therefore], we as Jews have a responsibility,

Proper preparation is needed before hosting refugees

if we ever come across others who are similarly baderech, we must rush out to strive to do whatever we can to help.”

Mirvis added that he has been “exceptionally overwhelmed by the response of individuals, families and communities here in the UK”.

Discussing the need for proper preparation when hosting refugees, Nathan said: “You do what you might do for any guest. You might find some toiletries, put out towels... You give them a warm welcome, a smile, get Google Translate loaded onto

your phone, and you’re away.”

But, she said, hosts should not ask about their journey or reason for being there.

Hall said: “[Hosting] is something not to jump into lightly. But this is a time we can stand up. It might be uncomfortable and difficult, but if you get a community and people who can support you when you are supporting the refugees.”

Griffiths said: “Even if you can’t host, there is so much you can do,” for example, taking a family out or having the children round for tea.”

Crisis event to be SHVIDLER IS held for Ukraine SANCTIONED The MP for Putney and Southfields, Fleur Anderson, and historian Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman will be among the speakers at a Ukraine Crisis South London Emergency Meeting at Wimbledon Synagogue on Sunday.

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Panelists will give their insight into the current crisis in Eastern Europe and Top: Fleur Anderson provide practical infor- Above: Sir Laurence mation on how com- Freedman munity members can help refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.

It will also serve as a fundraiser for World Jewish Relief’s Ukraine Crisis Appeal Iryna Mushkina, a Ukrainian member of Richmond Synagogue, will give her views of the crisis in Ukraine, alongside writer and broadcaster Freedman, who is also a member of Wimbledon, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London and an inter alia member of the Chilcot enquiry.

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Billionaire oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler is among 65 new Russian sanctions announced by the UK government against a range of “key strategic industries and individuals”.

Foreign secretary Liz Truss confirmed last Thursday that Shvidler, who has previously funded the Beit Shvidler Primary School, in Edgware, was on a new list of names. The UK has now sanctioned more than 1,000 individuals and businesses under the Russia sanctions regime since the invasion of Ukraine began.

A close confidant of Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, Shvidler has a net worth of around £2billion and is chairman of Millhouse Capital.

In 2011 Shvidler was revealed to be the primary donor for the £4.2 million school rebuilding, his first UK community project.

Pig’s head left for Russian ex-editor The former editor-in-chief of one of Russia’s most influential opposition radio stations has revealed he was the victim of an antisemitic attack during which a pig’s head was left at his front door along with a sticker with the centuries-old antisemitic term Judensau.

Alexei Venediktov, 66, an outspoken critic of the war in Ukraine, who has previously criticised Vladimir Putin, posted a photograph on social media of the severed pig’s head left in a wig outside his front door. “They decided to intimidate me and my family?” he wrote.

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‘Leadership ambitions? Do not underestimate my loyalty to Keir’

by Lee Harpin lee@jewishnews.co.uk @lmharpin

Wes Streeting has insisted “people should not underestimate my loyalty” to leader Sir Keir Starmer after being quizzed about his aspirations to lead the Labour Party.

Speaking this week exclusively to Jewish News, the shadow health secretary said it was “flattering” to be told he was now viewed by many as a future successor to Starmer, as a result of his impressive performance so far.

The Ilford North MP said: “As for my own leadership prospects, flattering as though these sorts of questions are, people should not underestimate my loyalty to Keir.

“I think he is the best candidate for prime minister this country has ever had, at least since Labour last left government in 2010... he pushes me forwards. He didn’t have to put me in the shadow cabinet after my cancer diagnosis – I assumed he wouldn’t, but he did.

“He’s given me the massive privilege of being shadow health secretary. The only job I wish I had was health secretary, rather than shadow.”

Streeting then added: “[Keir] is so focused on the challenge. Whenever he is presented with a choice, either the easy quiet life or the hard choice that leads us closer to a general election victory, he always chooses the hard choices.

That’s what you want in a leader.”

In a wide-ranging interview, Streeting said Labour now finds itself in a place that is “liberating compared to where we were under Jeremy Corbyn”.

He said Starmer’s grip on issues such as the party’s antisemitism crisis meant that “certainly among my Jewish constituents there’s a lot more confidence now”.

But he added: “That doesn’t mean we are complacent and just assuming Jewish people are going to flock back to Labour because we are taking antisemitism seriously. But I hope people are reassured by the fact that when Keir said he would have zero-tolerance he meant it.”

Pointing to the fact the party had “taken the EHRC [Equality and Human Rights Commission] report very seriously”, the conOn Barnet streets with candidate Josh Tapper tinued removal of the whip from Jeremy Corbyn and the fact “so many people who are guilty of regularly. That led to a huge amount of abuse antisemitism have been expelled”, Streeting directed towards me. But it was nowhere near admitted it could still be “frustrating” that issues the amount of abuse directed towards Jewish around “individual cases” had not yet been members of the party, particularly Jewish resolved. “There has to be due process, fair pro- women MPs. In the end, we have all been vindicated for the way we fought and the change we cess,” he reasoned. “And that can take a while.”

But Streeting insisted that those who had brought about in the Labour Party.”

Streeting spoke to Jewish News last Sunday “not taken antisemitism seriously” within the party were now themselves “either marginal- morning as he joined a canvassing session with ised, expelled or had left”. He then warned: “If local members in Barnet, ahead of May’s local you are someone who thinks antisemitism is a elections. He said he “felt really sorry for a lot smear or a scam, the Labour Party really isn’t for of brilliant people in the Barnet Labour Party, particularly Jewish members and others, who you. And that’s the bottom line.”

Assessing the evolution that had taken place had fought against antisemitism” but had failed in the party, Streeting said the cultural change to see their party gain power in the borough for had happened “a lot more quickly than even I more than two decades.

“I’m optimistic about Barnet this time was expecting and hoping for” over the past two years. “I can tell with Keir that he really means around. Barnet Council is such a terrible Tory it,” he added. “It’s liberating for me because council. I really hope people vote for change in I was one of those MPs who had to speak up Barnet in May.”

Wes Streeting has long had a reputation as a hard-working MP and friend to the community

Streeting was quick to dismiss claims that a general election, whenever it arrives over the next two years, will come too quickly for Labour to be able to overturn the 80-seat majority held by the Boris Johnson-led Tory Party.

“I can’t stand the lack of ambition that says this is a two-term project,” he argued, although he accepts that, after Labour’s drubbing in 2019, “even a determined optimist like me struggled to see how we would come back in one term”.

But he added: “I now think the next general election is there for the taking. And that is in no small part due to the change Keir has led since he’s been leader.

“He is serious about the task, which contrasts with a prime minister who does not take the job seriously. He’s a really decent person, a genuine person, who is in it for the right reasons. And I think he will be an outstanding PM. But politics is a team sport, he can’t do it on his own and I am very proud to support him.”

Streeting has long had a reputation as a hardworking MP. We spoke during a short break for lunch (a tasty one too) at Benny’s Diner in Edgware, before Streeting and his advisor Matt Goddin drove to Colchester, in Essex, to continue campaigning with activists there.

Streeting’s ambition has never been in doubt, ever since he became president of the National Union of Students in 2008, with the support of the Union of Jewish Students.

He was elected as a councillor on Redbridge Council in 2010 and, after Labour took control of the council for the first time in 2014, Streeting was made deputy leader. One year later, he

overturned a Tory majority of more than 5,000 to become the Ilford North MP at the general election. When Corbyn became leader Streeting openly spoke out, accusing him of a “flat-footed and lackadaisical attitude” to tackling antisemitism, calling it “simply unacceptable”.

At the 2017 election, Streeting said he was not going to pretend to have had a “Damascene conversion” with regards to Corbyn’s suitability to be prime minister.

The Ilford MP’s repeated criticism of Corbyn led to his condemnation by some of the former leader’s closest allies, including Ken Livingstone, who accused Streeting of “damaging” Labour, and from Len McCluskey, who said he was actively trying to “undermine” Corbyn.

A supporter of the Labour Friends of Israel organisation, Streeting is a vice-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Antisemitism.

Recognised by most in the community as one of our staunchest supporters, even though he is not Jewish, some on the political right have attempted to suggest his support also for Labour Friends of Palestine and his statements on alleged human rights abuses committed by Israel should not be overlooked.

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THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION IS THERE FOR THE TAKING. AND THAT IS IN NO SMALL PART DUE TO THE CHANGE KEIR HAS LED In March 2021, a hospital operation on a kidney stone led to the discovery that Streeting had kidney cancer.

Because it was diagnosed early, the prognosis was good, but he admits the past 12 months, in which he took a brief break from Westminster, have impacted on his outlook.

“I very much see myself now as the patient’s champion,” he said, using a frightening life experience to influence his political actions.

“Although I wouldn’t have wished for it, it does help that I have had a lot of experience in the past 12 months from going into A&E at 5am, to chasing up scans, and sometimes having to chase up scans quite a lot.”

Streeting was treated at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London, which gave him experience of “being on a ward with brilliant nurses, but also seeing how they were left short-handed”. He said he was also able to witness staff, including Jewish doctors, working flat out to help save and treat every single patient.

“The NHS is one of our greatest institutions, one of the greatest this country has ever known,” he added. “It was created by a Labour government, but it was built by the British people. When you look at the diversity of the NHS workforce, people from all walks of life, and from all across the world, this is such a strength.”

But he is deeply critical of the Conservative Party’s record on the NHS, a point he has made repeatedly after

being appointed last November to the shadow health role. He said he likes current health secretary Sajid Javid on a personal level but, having read his interview with Jewish News this week, argued: “It’s a bit rich for Sajid to announce a war on cancer when the Tories have spent more than a decade dismantling the NHS in that fight.”

After last week’s Spring Statement from Rishi Sunak, Streeting claimed the chancellor had “constrained” Javid in a “straight jacket”. He said: “[About] the ongoing costs of Covid, Sajid Javid told the Treasury he needed £5 million and he came away with nothing. Now we find the NHS is being asked to find savings within its own budget.”

Streeting says he noted how Javid highlighted the fact Ashkenazi Jewish women were more like to get breast cancer as a result of the BRCA gene.

“In that context,” he said, “the fact that fewer than half of all women with suspected breast cancer are seen within the recommended two weeks, and the fact that figure has got progressively worse every year the Conservatives have been in government, this is a last-ditch attempt at the tail end of a government to pretend they’ve been doing something other than making it worse.”

Streeting gives little respect to the view that the NHS is receiving record funding from the government, nor that the impact of the Covid pandemic must be taken into consideration. “This is a decade of failure in terms of the Tories’ management of the NHS.” Campaigning for his party on the streets of Barnet, Streeting said that among voters, including many from the community, alongside obvious concerns over Ukraine, it was apparent that all families, and “not just the poorest were beginning to feel the pinch as result of the cost of living crisis”.

As he contemplated the 90-minute journey to Colchester, he said: “We’ve still got a lot to do, as Keir would say, to turn hostility and apathy towards the Tories into a positive vote for Labour.”

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He acknowledged the increased incidence of the BRCA gene in the community, saying: “Unfortunately you are more likely to get breast cancer.

Therefore it is even more important for Jewish women from Ashkenazi backgrounds to come for screening.”

He said the NHS was getting “record amounts of funding” and added: “I want to make sure people come forward with their health challenges and do not stay away for any reason.”

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News / Twinning motion / Rabbi candidate / Labour suspension

Proposal to twin Edinburgh with Gaza City is withdrawn A report into twinning the cities of Edinburgh and Gaza was withdrawn from a council meeting agenda in the Scottish capital this week to allow “full consideration to legal matters raised since publication of the agenda”, writes Lee Harpin.

Edinburgh City Council’s policy and sustainability committee was scheduled on Tuesday to discuss a report conducted into a petition calling for the twinning.

Jewish News understands that the petitioner, the anti-Zionist activist Pete Gregson, was informed in advance about the decision. Among those to raise objections to the twinning had been UK Lawyers For Israel and the campaign group We Believe In Israel.

UKLFI had written to the council that because Gaza is “ruled

by Hamas, which is proscribed in its entirety under the Terrorism Act 2000… it is very difficult to see how councillors or officers could participate... without committing criminal offences”.

Former GMB shop steward Gregson was expelled from the union in 2019 after saying Israel was a “racist endeavour” that

Expelled union activist Pete Gregson petitioned the council

“exaggerates” the Nazis’ murder of six million Jews “for political ends”. Last week, at a rally outside the council building he admitted that Edinburgh Action For Palestine had rejected the twinning idea, telling him “You are just going to promote Hamas.”

‘WITCH-HUNT’ CLAIM COUNCILLOR SUSPENDED Labour this week suspended a councillor in Dudley, West Midlands, who posted claims a “witch-hunt” was taking place by “the lobby” against colleagues who criticised Israel.

Zafar Islam, who was first elected in 2004 and represents

the Brierley Hill ward, was suspended following an inquiry into his comments.

The local Labour Party now has two weeks – the deadline for confirming – to find a new candidate for May’s elections.

Tweets posted by Islam

between 2018 and 2020, suggested he had defended those who said antisemitism allegations in Labour were a smear.

In February 2019 he wrote: “Witch hunt continues. What next? Thou shall not support Palestine?”

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When some activists were criticised for sparking a campaign stating “Israel is a racist endeavour,” Islam tweeted of their critics: “Next phase of expansion by the lobby.”

Jewish News has asked Islam for comment.

Rabbi selected to contest Haringey Rabbi David Mason has been selected to stand as a Labour candidate in Haringey at the 5 May council elections.

Muswell Hill Synagogue’s long-serving rabbi was picked for the Crouch End ward at a selection meeting last week.

A party source told Jewish News that at the meeting to finalise candidates: “David absolutely smashed it, by all accounts.”

Rabbi Mason has been a member of the Hornsey and Wood Green local Labour party for several years, where he has been among those in the membership leading the fightback against a once strong pro-Jeremy Corbyn faction.

His selection is being hailed as another sign that activists linked to former leader Corbyn are declining in number in what was once labelled “Corbyn’s council”.

Mason, who has been rabbi at the United Synagogue shul for 18 years, has been among those Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has turned to for

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advice on environmental issues. He previously represented the late Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks on issues of international aid and debt.

It is understood that Mason, a conflict resolution expert, had alerted the Chief Rabbi’s Office of his intention to stand as a representative of Sir Keir Starmer’s party.

There have been recent examples of rabbis becoming local councillors. Borehamwood and Elstree’s Rabbi Alan Plancey has been Tory Mayor of Hertsmere and Liberal Judaism’s Rabbi Danny Rich is a Labour councillor in Barnet’s West Finchley ward.

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Special Report / Cost of living crisis

Food parcels that never stop Realities of food poverty in the community are tough to swallow, finds Sabrina Miller

Sabrina Miller with huge bags of produce

Walking to the United Synagogue’s (US) head office on a frosty Wednesday morning, I had no idea what to expect. Upon arrival, I was greeted by a small army of very friendly, masked volunteers, already hard at work packing food and toiletries.

Food poverty is not something I really associate with the Jewish community. Yet volunteers were packing parcels for families in Elstree, St John’s Wood, Bushey and Hampstead. Every corner of north-west London is touched by this cost of living crisis.

Since March 2020, the US has been providing food and toiletries to just under 200 families in the community every week.

As the cost of living crisis bites and bills soar, the number of people needing this service is expected to grow – and grow.

The now-essential service started by accident, Michelle Minsky, the US’ head of Chesed, explains. Every Pesach, the movement would provide needy families with a kosher food parcel. However, in March 2020, as people lost jobs and hid in their homes, demand for food continued to grow, so the US continued to provide it.

Need never stopped, so the programme never ended. The US expects the service to run indefinitely and is even moving to a bigger facility in Bushey.

Need never stops: A busy food bank

Minsky confesses that the process has been streamlined since its start. It has set up production lines and come up with nifty tricks to help with packing, such as resting half-filled food parcels on chairs, so volunteers don’t have to keep bending down while packing.

The whole process seemed very impressive. Bags are packed with ready-made kosher dinners, dried goods, fresh food including fruits and vegetables, cleaning products and

toiletries. Volunteer drivers then collect the food and drop the bags straight to people’s front doors, preserving the anonymity of recipients.

Speaking to the volunteers, who were giving up their Wednesday to help those in need, it was clear they wanted to give back to the communities that had served them so well over the years.

Minsky explains that the US understands it has a new responsibility to support its members. No one should be left to starve.

Frankly, it is simply unacceptable that our next-door neighbours are debating whether they can feed their families or heat their homes. This is a choice no one in the UK should have to make.

The touching testimony from food parcel recipients really highlights the importance of this service and the work these volunteers do.

The US is hosting an event next month to fund the food packing programme and, from someone who has viewed this operation from the inside, I can say with confidence that it is a really worthy cause.

It is clear that there is a real crisis in the UK. It is ordinary, everyday people, with ordinary, everyday families who are struggling.

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Chief Rabbi inducts (not-so-new) rabbis Two United Synagogue rabbis have been formally inducted by the Chief Rabbi at ceremonies attended by community dignitaries, writes Jordan Tyldesley.

Hadley Wood Jewish Community welcomed Rabbi Akiva Rosenblatt as its new senior rabbi and Rabbi Yossi Hambling was inducted at Birmingham’s Central Synagogue.

Although Rosenblatt and his wife Batya joined the Hadley Wood community 18 months ago, the induction had been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Likewise, Hambling has been in his role at Birmingham Central Synagogue for seven months.

Born in Liverpool and raised in north-west London, Rosenblatt is a trained chazan.

The community’s choir performed traditional songs, as well as You’ll Never Walk Alone as a nod to Rosenblatt’s affinity to Liverpool Football Club. Attendees included Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Dayan Menachem Gelley, United Synagogue president Michael Goldstein and mayor of Enfield Sabri Ozaydin.

Rabbi and Rebbetzin Rosenblatt expressed their gratitude and thanked the community for welcoming them with “open arms”.

In Birmingham, 140 people attended the ceremony to induct Hambling, including representatives from the Office of the Chief Rabbi and the United Synagogue.

Hambling grew up in Ilford, Essex After graduating from University College London in 2018, he moved to Israel on a Mizrachi UK Rabbinic Fellowship. He studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and was a

Rabbi Akiva Rosenblatt, left, with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

participant in Shalhevet – the leadership training programme of the World Mizrachi Movement.

Geoffrey Clements, Chair of

Birmingham Central Synagogue praised the synagogue’s selection committee for recruiting the Rabbinic couple during the pandemic.

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News / Remembrance service / Art auction Bruce appointed to Sacks Legacy Trust Rabbi Jeremy Bruce has been appointed executive director of The Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust in North America, writes Jordan Tyldesley.

The ex-King Solomon High School deputy head teacher has lived in the US since 2014, when he was made head of Hebrew High School of New England.

He was recently the principal of the Fuchs Mizrachi Stark High School in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust was established to promote the thought and works of former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who died in 2020

Jewish leaders pay their respects to Prince Philip Jewish communal figures were among guests attending a service of thanksgiving for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, as the great and the good paid tribute to the Queen’s husband, who died last year.

Rabbi Debbie YoungSomers, of Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue,

represented the Movement for Reform Judaism as she joined interfaith and interdenominational colleagues to remember His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh in an emotional service.

Owing to Covid restrictions in place at the time, the numbers allowed to attend his funeral last year

Dorfman highlights religious inclusivity Entrepreneur Sir Lloyd Dorfman underlined the importance of interfaith inclusivity at a memorial event for victims of COVID-19 at St Pauls’ Cathedral.

The ‘Never to Forget’ concert featured a performance by the London Symphony Chorus and City of London Sinfonia of an original composition by Howard Goodall in memory of all who have died as a result of the pandemic.

The Queen, pictured at the service for the late Prince Philip

were heavily restricted, with the event later becoming known for moving images of the Queen sitting alone in the pews.

On Twitter, YoungSomers shared a photo of the Duke’s visit to Akiva School 20 years ago, adding: “It was a privilege this morning to represent @ReformMovement…

The service was beautiful in its honouring of the Prince and the legacy he leaves.”

She said it was “particularly moving” to hear the testimony of 28-year-old Doyin Sonibare – who holds the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Awards – as she talked about the influence Prince Philip had on her own life.

Last week, a spokesman for Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said he had tested positive for Covid-19 and as a consequence his upcoming appointments had been cancelled.

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PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE

‘I don’t like to fight but I must’ As an Orthodox Jew, each morning Tzvi Arieli wraps his arm and forehead with tefillin, writes Dinah Spritzer.

But he makes exceptions. “If I need to shoot some Russians, timing is really important. I might not be able to focus on tefillin and war in the same split second,” said Arieli, a former Israeli Defense Forces soldier who is fighting alongside the Ukrainian army against Russia.

The 42-year-old has spent the past weeks preparing for battle while lying low at his in-laws’ home about 50 miles south of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in a town he preferred not to name for security reasons.

Now, a month into the war, he is on his way to ambush enemy troops as a member of a paratrooper unit.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin launched air and land strikes against its neighbour on 24 February after Ukraine rejected his territorial demands.

Arieli, who first worked for the Ukrainian military in 2014 to fend off the separatists, is a rarity as an Israeli fighting directly against Russian troops. Yet he reflects the complex set of ties Jews from the

former Soviet Union have to the region, and to Israel.

“I see myself as Ukrainian,” said Arieli, who was born in Latvia. “I am also Israeli but I am not very happy with Israel at the moment,” he added, a sentiment he links to both personal and political concerns.

Arieli emigrated to Israel after high school, where he attended college and served with an IDF unit that battled Palestinian militants in the West Bank during the Second Intifada. He also spent two years studying in the United States, at the Rabbinical College of America in New Jersey.

He then headed the Zionist youth organisation Bnei Akiva in Ukraine, where he met his wife, a Ukrainian Jew. Together, they moved again to Israel where he worked for an antiterror unit in the defence ministry.

But Ukraine lured Arieli back. He received an offer to work in Kyiv’s Jewish community as an educator.

He later served as the deputy CEO of United Ukrainian Appeal. Then the country’s military tapped him as a trainer for units trying to quell the separatist insurgency in Donbas.

Most recently, Arieli was running a

Tzvi Arieli (front right) with Ukrainians and Israelis involving in training

computer business, which has come to a standstill because of the war.

After more than a decade in Ukraine, Arieli feels himself a native.

And that is how he is viewed, he said.

“Jews became intertwined with Ukrainians and Ukrainian identity since the country became independent in 1991,” he said. “This is something many Americans and Israelis don’t understand.”

Like many Ukrainians, he is a

native Russian speaker, and like many Russian-speaking Ukrainians, he has long been a supporter of Ukraine’s independence from its former boss.

When the war began, he trained civilians to become soldiers in the newly formed Territorial Defence Force, overseen by the Ukrainian military. But Arieli admits he was frustrated.

“You can have 150 people every day, another day 150 arrive and most

of them do not know how to shoot. It’s hard to see the progress when you are training someone who has never held a gun,” he said. So he asked his fellow soldiers where he could be most useful – and that might just be in the forest west of Kyiv.

Although Arieli cannot say exactly what his unit’s plans are, he offered possible hints by going into detail about “the absurdity” of Russia’s land campaign. Confirming reports that Russian forces have sustained severe losses, Arieli said the tanks were constantly breaking down, blocking the road and running out of fuel. “There are fewer tanks and soldiers here every day,” he said.

Despite his optimism about the prospects for Ukraine’s military success, Arieli was worried about Putin’s next move. “It’s a very dangerous situation because there’s a 50-50 chance he could use nuclear weapons,” Arieli said. “He doesn’t want to have Ukraine, he wants to destroy it.”

He is also distressed about the abrupt and brutal turn his life has taken. “This war has ruined our lives.

We’ve lost everything,” he said. “You know, I really don’t like violence, but what choice do I have now?”

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‘My daughter was feeling lost but now she’s really found her place’ An Israeli city and its school for Russian speakers is offering temporary relief for Ukrainian refugees During Veronika Maidanova’s first two days attending school in Israel, the eight-year-old Ukrainian felt lost, writes Cnaan Liphshiz.

“Everyone spoke Hebrew and I didn’t understand anything,” she recalled, weeks after fleeing her native country for the safety – but unfamiliarity – of the Galilee.

Then her mother heard about a school focused on new immigrants where 90 percent of students speak Russian.

She quickly enrolled Veronica in the Shuvu Renanim school in Nof Hagalil, a city of 42,000, where an estimated 60 percent of families speak Russian at home.

“She’s really found her place. Most of the students

speak Russian, most of the teachers speak Russian and there are already friendships starting to happen,” Lena Maidanova said of her daughter. “It’s a huge relief.”

More than 600 Ukrainians have come to Nof Hagalil since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, setting off a massive migration of Ukrainians to whichever country can give them safety. About 4,000 Jewish refugees have already arrived in Israel, with tens of thousands more expected.

The Ukrainian children who have landed in Nof Hagalil and at Shuvu Renanim were living safe, stable lives just over a month ago. Now they are in a foreign land, usually without their fathers because of Ukraine’s ban on letting

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men younger than 60 leave the country, and often after experiencing trauma during the war’s early days and their flights from their home towns.

“It’s horrifying to see a student shuddering in fear whenever a door is slammed too hard or an ambulance wails by,” said Shuvu Renanim’s principal, Sara Neder.

Another mother, Tetiana Denysenko, stayed in Kyiv for as long as possible with her 10-year-old son, Sasha, and his father. “But it became impossible,” the 36-year-old said.

“The constant thud of bombs gave Sasha a trauma, and we saw our happy boy changing before our eyes, one sleepless night at a time.”

They left without Sasha’s father, who expected to be

Ukrainian refugees Katja, left, and Ira, watch a celebration at their new school in Nof Hagalil

conscripted into the military. Now, she and Sasha are staying in Nof Hagalil’s posh Plaza Hotel, where the city is housing new immigrants for up to a month as they look for flats to rent. Buses bring Sasha and others back to the hotel from the Shuvu school

each day as part of an effort to make the city welcoming for the new arrivals.

At school, the staff talk and devote extra attention to them to “try to make them feel as welcome and safe as possible”, said Neder. But for many of the newest arrivals, the question

of where they will ultimately live feels hard to consider right now, with the war still raging.

Denysenko had no idea what will happen next. She reflects: “Our lives were turned upside down. For now, the only horizon we’re seeing is the reunion of our family.”

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Clifford’s Tower in York opening to the public after £5m revamp

The tower is all that remains of York Castle, where in 1190 an estimated 150 Jews died after being trapped by an angry mob in one of the worst antisemitic massacres of the Middle Ages

includes a free-standing timber structure with aerial walkways, which “opens up hidden rooms not seen for 300 years”, while a new roof deck allows for panoramic views.

York Castle Museum this year ran a temporary exhibition on the city’s Jewish history using displays and objects from its collections, including a coin from the time of the Tower massacre, possibly minted by a Jewish man.

The site has become a place to remember victims of antisemitism. For Holocaust Memo-

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The site of one of the worst antisemitic episodes in English history is reopening to the public after a £5 million revamp by English Heritage, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

Clifford’s Tower in York is all that remains of York Castle, which was constructed by William the Conqueror in 1068 and is one of the country’s most important buildings. But for British Jews it has a dark past.

In 1190, it is where many of the city’s 150strong Jewish community killed themselves rather than be murdered by a angry mob, outside after rumours spread that Jews were murdering Christian children, the origin of the antisemitic blood libel.

The community had sought refuge in the castle and, fearing the entry of the mob or being handed over to the sheriff, locked the keeper out too. The king’s troops turned on them. Trapped, many killed themselves rather than be murdered or forcibly baptised.

Just before their deaths, they also set fire to the possessions they had brought with them.

On and around 16 March every year, a commemoration event is held at the base of the Tower to remember the massacre, with last year’s event held digitally because of Covid.

The site’s refurbishment has taken several years and opens to the public on Saturday, but plans for a visitor centre were dropped in 2018 after a local outcry. The York Liberal Jewish Community had said the story of the Jews of York had to be “told accurately, with context, compassion, and respect”.

The 800-year-old landmark was the centre of government in the north of England for 500 years, up to the 17th century. Sited at the top of a grassy mound, it is still a dominant feature in the city’s skyline, having been described as “a skyscraper of its day”.

It was gutted by a fire in 1684, when it was used to store arms and ammunition, and has stood as a shell ever since. The refurbishment

The fire immediately before the deaths

rial Day in 2017, young people from deprived backgrounds, or with disabilities or learning difficulties, designed and produced flowers echoing the Star of David using a 3D printer; their artwork was displayed next to the Tower.

Curators this week said the Tower was “one of those places that we can genuinely say is exceptional. It is undeniably a place of national as well as regional significance; some might even argue, a place of international significance. It has an important story, which needs to be told properly.”

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World News / Iran threat / Lipstadt role

Israel ‘working on air defence’ with allies Israel and its regional allies are working on developing a joint defence system to protect against the threat of Iranian drones and missiles.

Jerusalem may soon sign the prospective alliance with its Middle East partners,

and the countries have also recently developed joint systems for detecting missile and drone threats, Hebrew media reported this week, following an off-record briefing with Air Force officials.

Officials also pulled

the curtain back on some aspects of Israel’s shadowy air campaign in Syria and Damascus’ attempts to thwart the strikes, during the briefing.

According to reports this week, the opportunity for the airborne defence coalition followed normalisation agreements between Israel and Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which are geographically closer to Iran.

Israel has a cutting-edge, multi-layered aerial defence system that is considered capable of handling most threats.

The disclosure of the possible defense pact came amid

a series of incidents involving Iranian drones and missiles.

Last week, Israeli offi-

cials said they believed two drones, which were reportedly launched from Iran and

Retaliation: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi

intercepted by the US-led international coalition in Iraq last month, were aimed at Israel.

A wave of drone and missile attacks launched by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen hit an oil facility in Saudi Arabia this week, causing significant damage.

Earlier this month, Iran launched a missile barrage that hit Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, calling it retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard.

The volley of around 12 missiles hit near the US consulate, marking a significant escalation.

Lipstadt on cusp of antisemitism role Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt is poised to finally be approved as the US State Department’s next antisemitism monitor, paving the way for her likely confirmation by the full Senate.

Lipstadt’s nomination has been

held up by Republicans for months in part because she described a view advanced by Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin as “white supremacy” in a tweet last year.

Johnson, who has tried hard to convince his Republican colleagues to vote against Lipstadt, said she

was guilty of “malicious poison” for her March 2021 tweet, according to media reports.

Lipstadt did not apologise but said she could have been clearer in her tweet that she was not calling Johnson a white supremacist, instead aiming to describe a statement he made as white supremacy.

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Life-saving treatment / Vaccine research / Marathon win / World News

Israeli doctor saves life of Ukrainian girl A four-year-old girl suffering from a rare genetic disorder who was displaced from her home following the Russian invasion of Ukraine was saved at an Israeli medical clinic in Poland near the border with Ukraine.

Originally from Dnipro, Ukraine, Yasinya, her eight-year-old brother and their mother were forced out of their home as Russian forces intensified bombardment on the central-eastern city.

They centre was operated by staff from Hadassah Hospital and located in the Polish city of Przemyśl.

Yasinya has suffered from cystic fibrosis her entire life. The disease affects multiple organ systems, including the lungs, pancreas, liver, kidneys and intestine, and requires a daily regimen of medication and treatment.

“When they arrived at the clinic at the refugee camp, the mother described how she and her two children had spent Four-year-old Yasinya, centre, pictured with her mother, left, and Dr Alex Gileles five days on the roads without being able to treat the girl, which made her condition deteriorate The pediatric pulmonologist expert, who specialises in and brought her to a real life-threatening situation,” Dr Alex treating children with acute and chronic lung diseases, added: Gileles from Hadassah Hospital told Channel 12 news.

“Luckily, they came here.”

SHOAH MEMORIAL NEAR KHARKIV 'HIT' A Holocaust memorial near the 15,000 Jews were killed and buried in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has been mass graves at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine damaged in Russian bombardments, outside the eastern city of Kharkiv. according to government officials.

The Babyn Yar Holocaust MemoImages posted on social media rial Centre also noted the damage to showed a wrecked menorah monuDrobytsky Yar. ment at the Drobytsky Yar site.

“Russia continues to attack not Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro only the civilian population of Ukraine Kuleba criticised Russia for the but also the places of remembrance,” incident, and called for Israeli it tweeted. condemnation.

Ukraine’s embassy in Israel con“Why Russia keeps attacking Holodemned the attack, writing that caust memorials in Ukraine [sic]? I “another memorial of the Holocaust expect Israel to strongly condemn this victims was destroyed by Russian barbarbarism,” Kuleba said. barians in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s embassy in Israel and “No one should keep silent, when Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine Michael Images show the wrecked menorah monument Russian war criminals [are] killing Brodsky said the damage was the civilians, kids, pregnant women, result of Russian artillery shelling in Ukraine also reported on damage caused shelling hospitals, memorials…. Russians the area. to the site, blaming Russian artillery. are repeating the Nazis’ crimes, again and The United Jewish Community of Between 1941 and 1942, an estimated again and again!”

Fourth vaccine 'curtails' Omicron deaths by 78% New Israeli research indicates fourth shots of the Pfizer– BioNTech coronavirus vaccine significantly curtailed deaths in Israel’s older population during the Omicron wave.

It also raises the question of how many lives may have been lost owing to the world’s slow adoption of fourth vaccines.

Israelis who topped up their triple-vaccine protection with a fourth shot of the Covid vaccine reduced their chances of death by 78 percent, according to Clalit Health Services and Sapir College.

The study, which has been published online but not yet peer-reviewed, comes three months after Israel went out on a limb internationally by introducing second boosters for the elderly, at-risk individuals and medical staff.

UKRAINIAN ATHLETE WINS MARATHON Valentyna Veretska, a Ukrainian athlete who fled with her daughter as Russia attacked her country, won the women’s race in the Jerusalem marathon last Friday.

Veretska completed the marathon in 2:45:54 seconds, draping herself in the Ukraine and Israel flags after crossing the finish line.

Winner: Valentyna Veretska The 31-year-old had applied to run the marathon before Russia's 24 February invasion of Ukraine and had won the women’s marathon in Tirana, Albania, in October. Her husband has stayed in Ukraine to fight.

Israel has taken in close to 17,000 Ukrainian refugees since the conflict began, and Israel’s sports ministry said last Thursday that it is ready to take in 100 athletes.

Israeli Olympian Ageze Guadie won the men’s race in 2:37:17.

'Oldest' Hebrew text found in Israel with God's name A team of international scholars have unveiled what they claim is the earliest proto-alphabetic Hebrew text — including the name of God, “YHVH” – ever discovered in ancient Israel. It was found at Mount Ebal, known from Deuteronomy 11:29 as a place of curses.

If the Late Bronze Age (circa 1200 BCE) date is verified, this tiny, 2cm by 2cm folded-lead “curse tablet” may be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries.

It would be the first attested use of the name of God in the land of Israel and would set the clock back on proven Israelite literacy by several centuries – showing that the Israelites were literate when they

entered the Holy Land, and could have written the Bible as some of the events it documents took place.

“This is a text you find only every 1,000 years,” Haifa University professor Gershon Galil told The Times of Israel. He helped decipher the hidden internal text of the folded Archaeologist lead tablet based on high- Dr Scott Stripling

tech scans carried out at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Based on analysis of the scans and analysis of the artifact, archaeologist Dr Scott Stripling and his team date the curse tablet (or defixio) to the late Bronze Age, before or around 1200 BCE. If this is verified, it would make the text centuries older than the previous record holder for oldest Hebrew text in Israel and 500 years older than the previously attested use of YHVH, according to Galil.

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New leader must drag Send us your comments NUS out of the mire Kyiv in peril Twin concern PO Box 815, Edgware, HA8 4SX | letters@jewishnews.co.uk

You don’t need a university degree to see how far the National Union of Students – which is about to be led by a woman who appeared to show understanding for the plight of Islamic terrorists Hamas on social media – has fallen. As former NUS president and Labour MP Wes Streeting told us this week, the organisation’s contempt for Jews has reduced it to “one of its lowest points in its history”.

Further pearls of moral wisdom from president-elect Shaima Dallali include “encouraging students to get involved with BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel]”, “calling out” the Union of Jewish Students for, we can only assume, welcoming people who aren’t eye-rolling, mouth-frothing anti-Zionists, and insisting Jeremy Corbyn “should never have been suspended” from Labour.

Still, the jury is out. She may yet prove to be a welcome change from recent presidents, including incumbent Larissa Kennedy, who backed a move to “revoke the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism” at a top university, and the infamous Malia Bouattia, whose views about Birmingham University being a “Zionist outpost” smacked of “outright racism” according to a Commons home affairs committee.

Dallali’s ascent comes days after we reported NUS leaders had quietly dropped a commitment to IHRA and placed anti-Israel rapper and conspiracy theorist Lowkey at the centre of its centenary campaign.

Jewish News has asked this new representative of students in Britain for an interview so that she might reassure Jews on campus about the goals and aspirations of her two-year term. We look forward to seeing her convert apparent readiness to engage with action.

At a time when UK campuses are failing to challenge antisemitism – or even recognise it – the NUS must be seen as part of the solution, not a source of the problem.

What a time to pick to press for the capital city of Scotland to be twinned with the city where Hamas holds power in its iron grip!

Have the petitioners forgotten that more than 30 years ago Edinburgh Council made the decision to twin with a city in eastern Europe?

That city was Kyiv – which was then part of the Soviet Union.

The two capitals have been twinned since 1989, with the historic agreement between the cities having been signed in Kyiv itself.

Edinburgh and Kyiv are still twinned and it is now of all times, with the Ukrainian capital’s citizens having been forced to flee, or to hide for weeks in basements fearing death from the Russian missiles targeting them during both days and nights, that Kyiv needs our support.

Abigail Leibovitz, Leith

There are sensible people and insensible. Despite the war waged by Russia against Ukraine, Edinburgh Council is formally considering a petition for the city to be twinned with Gaza. Don’t worry about Ukraine and the thousands of people being killed and their cities destroyed, they seem to be saying; the terrorist Hamas movement is a perfect friend with which to link up.

Authored by activists Pete Gregson, who was expelled by GMB Union in 2019 because he said Israel was a racist endeavour, backed by shop steward Tommy Sheppard and SNP cohort Philippa Whitford, they think it is a noble idea. Not wanting to be left out are Norman Finkelstein and Ilan Pappé. I hope the council will, instead of joining with Hamas and its sympathies with Russia, look towards the people of Ukraine.

Robert Dulin, St Albans

RELIEF AS GAZA PROPOSAL WITHDRAWN I grew up in Edinburgh so am hugely relieved to learn plans to twin the wonderful Scottish capital with the city of Gaza have been withdrawn. Pete Gregson, the character behind this campaign, is well known across Edinburgh and beyond for these type of stunts. I’m not

Jewish, so have no loyalty towards Israel, but it has my sympathy for having to put up with Hamas’ terrorist enclave on its border. Being twinned with such a place would have defamed the name of Scotland’s finest city.

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CAUGHT BETWEEN DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA

I was interested to read your article about the proposed Shabbat-friendly crossing in Prestwich at the Kings Road junction with Bury New Road and George Street. You mentioned this is only the second one in the UK, the first being in Finchley. However, we have been fortunate to have two Shabbat-friendly crossings in Stamford Hill for a considerable time. One is on Stamford Hill (A10) near Ravensdale Road, and the other is on Upper Clapton Road, near Castlewood Road.

These have proved to be extremely beneficial to the Orthodox Jewish community and we are very grateful to our councillors who made the arrangements.

Israel is indeed caught between a rock and a hard place. Its leaders – and indeed Jewish people everywhere – cannot but be affected by the increasingly desperate pleas of the Ukrainian president for Jews to support his country. I know I am.

While Volodymyr Zelensky, who is himself Jewish, has said he does not think the Israeli government “had wrapped itself with the Ukranian flag”, Israel is in a very precarious situation. Given Russia’s influence in Syria, which is on Israel’s border, the Jewish state must not antagonise Putin – but hopefully it can provide aid in non-contentious ways.

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Israel keeps balance on a diplomatic tightrope JENNI FRAZER

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t has been more than two years, but I am finally back in Israel; my absence, like everyone else’s, thanks to Covid-19.

Inevitably, there are changes and, just as inevitably, Israel is in some sort of turmoil – but actually it is a relatively fascinating turmoil as the country walks a diplomatic tightrope, with the government trying to steer mediation between Russia and Ukraine, mindful of what is going on just over the border in Syria.

It seems as though anyone who is anyone is in Israel this week and next. Britain alone has three delegations from the newly-launched ELNET UK, from Labour Friends of Israel, and Technion UK; the heavyweight board of the powerful American lobby group, Aipac, is in town; and, with a dramatic flourish, foreign minister Yair Lapid has unveiled the Negev Summit, spearheaded by US secretary of state Antony Blinken and featuring Middle East counterparts from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and, significantly, Egypt.

Egypt was once the undisputed power broker of the region and its presence – at a setting underlining the historic symbolism of the event, David Ben-Gurion’s old kibbutz, Sde Boker – may well have further reverberations.

Two words are on everyone’s lips, of course – Ukraine and Iran. Israel is – not for the first time – caught between a rock and a hard place.

Its government has been globally derided for not tying its colours more firmly to the Ukrainian mast. Ukraine’s charismatic president, Volodymyr Zelensky, chided the Knesset for what he sees as just such an omission, with the tacit message that the Jewish state ought to be supporting him, a Jewish president ludicrously accused of being a Nazi by Putin.

But in fact Israel is doing a great deal for Ukraine, from establishing a much-needed field hospital on the Polish-Ukrainian border to sending tonnes of humanitarian supplies.

Hatzola is there, too, together with a group of much-appreciated medical “clowns”, Israeli doctors and nurses helping to keep refugees’ spirits up. And that applies as much to the adults as the children.

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So what about the other keyword, Iran?

Israel has been lobbying religiously against the potential, but imminent, signing of a new nuclear accord between Teheran and world powers. It would mean the dropping of Iran’s fearsome Revolutionary Guard from America’s list of proscribed terror organisations.

Natan Sharansky, a man who knows a thing or two about international realpolitik, has some useful thoughts on the current global situation. Born in Donetsk when it was still known as Stalino, part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Sharansky knows Vladimir Putin of old, and believes that, over the past two decades, the Russian leader has come to think

of himself as this century’s Peter the Great, with a dream of recreating the Russian empire.

Western leaders come and go because of democracy, which he, Putin, despises, but he remains the strongman, the leader who remains.

Sharansky’s years in Soviet prisons as a refusenik and Prisoner of Zion has led him to believe that “the ringleader is not the one who has a knife, but the one who is ready to use it…

Putin believes he is willing to use his knife and the West isn’t”.

But, Sharansky warns, “the free world is taking steps to take billions of dollars away from Putin, and, at the same time, making sure Iran will receive billions of dollars”. It’s not, he says, a logical position.

Not for the first time Israel finds itself at the vortex of international political developments, as war rages in Ukraine and Iran’s leaders gleefully contemplate the erasure of sanctions as it hold out the carrot of replacement energy supplies for Russian gas and oil.

It couldn’t be a better time to have a ringside seat at history in the making.

Refugees fleeing should not be penalised for how they get here JACK KUSHNER

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he distressing images of refugees desperately attempting to escape Ukraine have been deeply evocative for British Jews.

Many within our community have parents or grandparents who fled to this country in search of safety. And it has perhaps been particularly resonant that some relatives, including members of my own family, came to the UK from similar towns and villages to those Ukrainians are escaping today. Amid such harrowing scenes, the public support and welcome for Ukrainian refugees has been extremely heart-warming.

As a community with a long history of displacement, it is uplifting to see Britons responding so empathetically to those currently in need of protection. This widespread solidarity also strongly challenges government claims that regressive refugee policies are what British voters want.

Almost 200,000 people have volunteered to host Ukrainian refugees through ‘Homes for Ukraine’. Such broad compassion and incredible generosity have shown that approaches such as the cruel Nationality and Borders Bill are completely out of touch with public sentiment.

However, while JCORE welcomes the introduction of any safe routes to enable people escaping violence and persecution to reach the UK, we do hold concerns about aspects of ‘Homes for Ukraine’. It cannot be right that aside from those with family members in the UK, Ukrainians fleeing will need to be personally nominated to receive protection in this country.

Refugees escaping war should not require visas and extensive paperwork to reach sanctuary. If the government is serious about representing public opinion, then it should follow the example of our European neighbours and waive all visa restrictions for Ukrainian refugees.

We are also concerned the scheme places undue pressure on charities and civil society groups to match refugees with a UK host.

To be implemented successfully, rigorous safeguarding checks must also be put in place.

The government cannot allow vulnerable

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people to be put in positions that could result in exploitation. Reports that hosts may only be subject to ‘light-touch’ criminal checks are deeply worrying. While the circumstances are different, such concerns bring to mind the experiences of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany using domestic service visas in the 1930s. Those reaching the UK were provided with accommodation as live-in servants, where, sadly, many were mistreated.

While those arriving on ‘Homes for Ukraine’ will be granted greater independence, with rights to benefits and work, without proper procedures, the potential for vulnerable refugees to face similar inappropriate attention and exploitation from hosts is alarming.

Critically, the government must also not see the incredible public solidarity and kindness offered to Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to abdicate its own responsibility. Instead, it should step up to provide readily accessible safe routes to the UK for those fleeing conflict and persecution and ensure all seeking sanctuary here are treated with dignity and respect.

This includes providing suitable accommodation for all refugees. It is shocking that, six months on from Operation Warm Welcome, thousands of Afghans remain stuck in bridging hotels. Housing conditions for many others seeking asylum are also appalling – it

is shameful the deeply inappropriate Napier Barracks remain in use as asylum accommodation. Despite the scheme’s flaws, it is unfortunate that ‘Homes for Ukraine’ has not been broadened to assist refugees from other nationalities.

The bureaucratic, narrow approach to those fleeing Ukraine appears to form part of the government’s broader disregard for its obligations under international refugee law. It is unsettling that this scheme, which engages public sentiment to welcome Ukrainian refugees, is being implemented alongside the Nationality and Borders Bill, which would criminalise many people escaping persecution and conflict.

The government must respect the Refugee Convention and ensure all in need of sanctuary can access the UK’s asylum system. It cannot divide refugee groups and pick and choose who it is willing to support based on nationality, or as the Bill proposes, method of entry to this country. In Torah, we are urged to welcome the stranger 36 times; as British Jews, we must make clear to the government that such a punitive approach cannot be in our name.

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Our history teaches us to treat asylum seekers kindly DR AVIVA DAUTCH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JEWISH RENAISSANCE

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’m writing this from the Isle of Man, where I have spent the past few days, alongside 50 descendants of German and Austrian Jews interned here as “enemy aliens” during the Second World War, with colleagues Monica Bohm-Duchen, founding director of Insiders/Outsiders who conceived the idea for the trip, and Michael Newman, chief executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR).

Our organisations came together more than 18 months ago to ask how we would commemorate the 80th anniversary of this morally murky piece of British history, little realising that, when we did so, it would be at a time when millions of new refugees are massing along Europe’s borders and Parliament would be debating whether to detain “offshore” those seeking asylum in the UK. We talk often about the Kindertransport,

although this, too, is more than the general ‘feel-good’ perception. Only infrequently do we remember Churchill’s instructions to “Collar the lot!” in early summer 1940, in response to the fall of France and hysteria stirred up by a populist press intolerant of foreigners.

Hastily-assembled tribunals, which often had under 10 minutes to decide someone’s fate, categorised refugees according to their supposed threat level, including some of those older children who had arrived alone on the Kindertransport. Such was the fear of the “fifth columnist” spy that most adult males were sent to transit camps, where they were crammed in hundreds to a hall, with hardly any washing facilities, sleeping on pallets of hay infested with rats, before being interned on the Isle of Man. Over the next few months, many Jewish women and children were sent to the island.

The category C prisoners only spent a few weeks here, many then enlisting in the Pioneer Corps. But some of those with higher classifications, or accidentally documented with incorrect paperwork, were sent in ships to Canada or Australia, or kept here, behind barbed wire, for

up to two years. They included Manfred Kalb, who is accompanying our group, brought to the island with his mother aged four, who remembers celebrating his sixth birthday in a boarding house in Port St Mary.

By spring 1942, all the Jews had been freed, the government realising rabbis and artists, composers and dentists, young mothers and

fervent hope that this tree will endure and put down its roots in the same way that Manfred and so many others were able to do.”

But over the past few days, I have been haunted by the pain and trauma the internees had to overcome. They were separated from their families and considered threats when they were just ordinary, scared people, who fled

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THE INTERNEES WERE CONSIDERED THREATS WHEN THEY WERE JUST ORIDINARY, SCARED PEOPLE

six-year-old children posed no threat. Left on the island were only the openly-fascist Nazi sympathisers, whom they had often been imprisoned alongside.

On Monday the chief minister of the island, Alfred Cannan, unveiled a Blue Plaque at the Ferry Terminal. We planted an oak tree in Hutchinson Square as part of AJR’s 80 trees for 80 years project. As Michael observed: “It is our

conflict and mistreatment, and found themselves in an unfamiliar unfamiliar place.

As British Jews, it is our responsibility to caution our government not to repeat history’s mistakes. To choose the kind path rather than the supposedly populist, fearful one, and welcome asylum seekers with warmth and compassion rather than plotting to retraumatise and displace them again.

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1 HIP HIP HOO-PLAY!

Youngsters at Hertsmere Jewish Primary School in Radlett celebrated the installation of a new playground following a £21,000 fundraiser.

The old timber equipment, which had reached the end of its lifespan, has been replaced with nine colourful adventure trail items, including a wobble board, tunnel, clatter bridge and balance beams on a rubber mulch safety surface. Much of the funding for the PTA-led initiative came from 21 Challenges, a £21,000 sponsored drive held in December, which also marked the school’s 21st anniversary since it was opened by the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. PTA secretary Francine Wolfisz, who managed the project, said: “This has been many years in the making. We want to thank past and current parents and PTAs for giving generously and supporting this project.”

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2 ANGEL APPEAL

A total of 160 guests joined Rachel Riley, Channel 4’s Countdown numbers expert and resident team member on comedy show, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, at Jewish Care’s Local Angels Committee’s 12th lunch. The TV presenter was in conversation with Gayle Klein, Jewish Care Local Angels Committee chair and Jewish Care vice chair at the lunch, which helped to raise nearly £40,000 on Wednesday at the Waltham Abbey Marriott Hotel.

During an appeal at the lunch, guests heard about Helen Zack’s family, six of whom have been supported by Jewish Care across three generations.

3 RUNNING EXPERIENCE

Theo and Amy Silverback ran last week in the Jerusalem Marathon for Kisharon. Amy said: “Running the marathon for Kisharon, keeping the amazing work they do in mind was a spark of motivation, while being able to run as a proud Jew and Zionist through the streets of Jerusalem was a unique and wholesome experience, which connected me to my Judaism and the importance of tzedakah [charity].” Kisharon said: “We are proud to be a charity close to Theo and Amy’s hearts and are so glad they could support the charity in this special marathon.”

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Deputy mayor of London for business, Rajesh Agrawal, hailed trade ties between the Israel and the UK – and Israeli entrepreneur Teddy Sagi’s Camden Market overhaul – at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech conference. The London event – with Labtech and Bank Leumi – brought together investors, entrepreneurs and politicians from both countries.

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SCREENING for CONFLICT Sarah Miller speaks to documentarymaker Gillian Mosely about her new film, The Tinderbox

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deep look into the Israel-Palestine conflict, where ‘everyone thinks they’re right’, was never going to make for comfortable movie viewing. But for film-maker Gillian Mosely the discomfort level was at an all-time high as she sought to do just that while untangling her own complex feelings about her heritage.

A British-American Jew raised in a Zionist family, Mosely can lay claim to descending from eminent rabbinical families, as well as from renowned Ukrainian cantor Gershon Sirota, who died in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and Herbert Samuel, the first High Commissioner for Palestine. There’s even a link to the Zionist-supporting Rothschilds.

But she is also descended from MP Edwin Montagu, who vehemently opposed the creation of a Jewish homeland.

Perhaps this dichotomy meant she was well-placed to see all sides of the debate, the compelling result being her absorbing documentary The Tinderbox, which opened in cinemas last week.

to be balanced,” explains the award-winning documentary maker.

“We showed it along the way largely to academics and people from all sides to make sure that everything we were talking about was 100 percent correct, but also that we weren’t stirring up any unnecessary ire.”

Her starting point for making the film was a search for what she calls “the critical truth”.

She admits to accepting, for most of her younger life, the pro-Israel stance taken by her family, but that slowly began to unravel during her teenage years after meeting Tamir, a young Muslim Palestinian gay man.

Through her new friend, Mosely learned more about what happened to the thousands of Arab families who became displaced when Israel became a state – and, for the first time, she began questioning whether Jews really had any more right than other religions to Above: Kobi Farhi and Abed Hathout of Orphaned Land claim Israel as their home.

While the film doesn’t attempt to It’s a 90-minute film that tries to “come definitively answer that question, for all the from the middle”, she says, bringing forth voices spanning the whole political spectrum. obvious reasons, The Tinderbox does bring another valuable element to the table and one There’s Yisrael, a sincere Americanthat has perhaps not been discussed enough – Jewish settler in his mid-60s, who was involved in the Zionist move across the Green that of the role Britain played in the conflict.

“I felt that so many of the historical facts Line into the West Bank. He feels he has of this situation have been completely lost in every right to live where he does, but so does the midst of time – not least, as a Brit, the role Issa, a human rights activist born and raised Britain played in the 30 years running up to in Hebron, just like generations of his family the foundation of the state of Israel. In one before him. In the midst of it all is Muna, one sense, it’s got absolutely nothing to do with of the largely forgotten Palestinian ChrisZionists and their aspirations and more to do tians caught up in this long-running conflict, with geopolitics, European colonialism and a minority within a minority. white racism on many different levels.”

Meanwhile, Israeli Kobi and PalesIn one stark example, the tinian Abed are the front faces of documentary shows how, Orphaned Land, a well-known in 1915, letters between heavy metal band that Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of attracts Orthodox Jews Mecca, and Lieutenant and Muslims alike within Colonel Sir Henry its fanbase. Music has McMahon, the British brought them and their High Commissioner to followers together, Egypt, agreed to recognise they say, but so, too, Pan-Arab independence has open dialogue about in return for Allied support their situation. during the First World War. “If we all talked and listened But in 1916, the Sykes-Picot there could be a lasting peace,” Gillian Mosely Agreement was made between says Kobi optimistically.

Britain, France and Russia to carve up Mosely has painstakingly tried to ensure Ottoman territory before the empire fell – an equilibrium of views – a task that was and just a year later, the Balfour Declaration never going to be easy, given the Israel-Paleswas signed. Britain, it seems, unsympathetitine conflict is one that often evokes strong cally reneged on her promises to the Arabs. emotion. “I made it clear [to the producers] “We felt the world was ours to do with as that in order for this to have the sort of we wanted,” explains Mosely, adding: “The impact I hoped it would have, it would need

From top: Yisrael Medad, Muna Tannous and Issa Amro

history is really layered and quite murky.

“Even though a small percentage of Jews were in Palestine already and had more experience on the ground, those who had the loudest voices about the creation of Israel were from Europe. On a certain level, this is also about what white people wanted versus non-white people.”

The film highlights how these rocky beginnings led to regional discontent before, and in the many decades since, Israel was founded and does not shy away from the violence, terrorism or military retaliation that has followed.

Nor does it hide the distrust, blame and fear each side shows for the other. “If nothing else, I wanted to show the disruptive nature of ‘othering’,” says Mosely. “We can’t just keep pointing fingers at each other, because it’s destroying us all.” The Tinderbox – Israel and Palestine: The Untold Story is on release in cinemas and available from Curzon Home Cinema now

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In a little studio above a pub in Highgate, the “largely Jewish town” of Hollywood is brought to life with a brilliant script and a sublime score. Sue Kelvin, Jack Reitman, Howard Samuels and Mackenzie Mellen are Putting on the Ritz while telling the story of how the Jews created and then ran Hollywood, singing songs from Jewish musical theatre. These are instantly recognisable tunes by Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin, Kander and Ebb, Mel Brooks and Irving Berlin with a touch of Fiddler and Barbra thrown in and even Hava Nagila, plus too many others to mention. You’ll learn, laugh and love. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime for a ticket? Runs until 17 April – grab a seat to get swept up in The American Dream before the curtain falls. A five fishball rating. www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com

Sugar by Name

Israel continues to make its presence felt on the small screen, and Yes TV, the company that brought us Shtisel and will soon be bringing us another season of Fauda, has just picked up two awards for new shows at the Festival Séries Mania in France. Bloody Murray, starring On the Spectrum’s Naomi Levov, is a nine-part romantic comedy by Stav Idisis about two 35-year-old room-mates – a university lecturer and a gynaecologist – as they look for love. Taking home the best series award, it was Yehuda Levy who won best actor for Fire Dance, a coming-of-age story about a troubled young woman in a tight-knit Strictly Orthodox religious sect. Fire Dance is the first TV series by New York-born Israeli film-maker Rama Burshtein-Shai, who made Fill The Void. “Both series are already creating a buzz and we can’t wait to introduce them to the international viewing audience,” says Sharon Levi, the newly-appointed MD of Yes Studios. Neither can we, Sharon, neither can we!

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We should have guessed that Harpreet Kaur would win The Apprentice last week, as Lord Sugar befits his moniker.

Back in 2017, Sugar, who has invested £250, 000 in the dessert business of the Huddersfield entrepreneur (pictured right, with Sugar), put the same amount into Sarah Lynn’s confectionery company Sweets in the City. In 2016, it was the turn of baker Alana Spencer, who set up her company Ridiculously Rich By Alana with Sugar’s investment, selling cakes and traybake treats. Harpreet has already unveiled the new look for her dessert initiative and Oh So Yum is ready to serve.

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Hard as it is to ignore the name, Robert Moses screams to be noticed by a Jewish newspaper. So, purely on a need-to-know basis, we draw your attention to Sir David Hare’s new play, Straight Line Crazy, which has opened at the Bridge. Directed by the theatre’s Jewish London Theatre Company founder, Sir Nicholas Hytner, the play stars Ralph Fiennes as Moses, the maniacal New York developer who created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway, presiding over the destruction of entire neighbourhoods as he did so. Hated as a racist, he turned away from Judaism as speedily as he could and became an Episcopalian. This may not be a Moses for us, but the reviews suggest he is worth a mention. www.bridgetheatre.co.uk

OSCARS

Mazeltov to composer Hans Zimmer, who won an Oscar for best original score for the film Dune (starring nice Jewish boy Timothée Chalamet) – only his second despite 12 nominations.

Zimmer tweeted that his daughter woke him at 2am when his name was announced, to celebrate in their Amsterdam hotel bar, and posted photos of himself in his dressing gown with his trophy. Congrats also to Marlee Matlin, who starred in CODA, which scooped three awards including best picture. Producers David Dinerstein and Robert Fyvolent won best documentary feature for Summer of Soul, while producer and studio exec Robert Evans got a mention in a segment celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Godfather. Comedian Amy Schumer was the show’s first Jewish host since Billy Crystal a decade ago. In the audience was Mila Kunis (above), resplendent in Zuhair Murad couture.

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Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra – the best yet!

Available from: Samsung, Amazon, John Lewis and Currys RRP: From £1,149 WHAT IS IT? The Galaxy S22 Ultra is Samsung’s top tier flagship phone for the year.

Samsung has consolidated its offerings by moving the Note to its S line and branded it as such. The Ultra is big, boxy and bold and packed with every feature (useful or not) you could want.

PLUS POINTS: • Top-notch build and probably one of the few Android phones with hardware in the iPhone league • Samsung phones are known for their amazing screens, and this doesn’t disappoint. It’s brighter and punchier than any other phone

• Its ultrasonic under-screen fingerprint reader has improved dramatically • The S Pen is back! It’s useful and works well, but I only used it a handful of times.

• Cameras are a real win for this phone.

Its four rear lenses and selfie camera produce vibrant, clear and sharp images.

To quote one photographer: “This phone’s going to put me out of business!”

NIL POINTS: • Samsung promised its S22 phones would support native camera integration in apps such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. At the time of going to print, only Snapchat seems to

be supported, which is a shame.

• Battery life was good but not great.

I could easily drain this phone by early evening, but it did seem to improve towards the end of my review period • The phone’s rear lenses protrude just enough to create an annoying wobble when typing on a flat surface • The phone is not cheap. At £1,500 on the top end, your bank account will cry.

VERDICT: ★ ★ ★ ★ Samsung continues to impress the market with its phones. The S22 Ultra is part of that success. It’s probably the best Android phone you can get on the market right now and its camera will even turn the head of an iPhone user.

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Angie Jacobs dons her rubber gloves to get the house in order for Pesach

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y husband makes Marie Kondo look like a slob.

Colour-coded hangers – tick.

Minimalist surfaces – tick.

Electric shaver that I bought him for Chanukah 2002 still pristine and put back in the box every morning – tick.

Me a tidy person? Not so much.

I hate to agree with my husband, but he is right when he says it’s actually lazier to be tidy, as you can always find things. In fact, the alphabetised filing system that he bought me in our first year of marriage (oh the romance) was life-changing as suddenly I could find ‘stuff ’.

It will come as no surprise that he loves a bit of Pesach preparation. We don’t fully change over, but it is a good chance for a clearout and a few bonding trips to the local tip. Told you he Judi and Steve Herman go litter-picking was romantic. with their faithful dog, Biba Some people change everything for Pesach, ‘Pesaching’ at an all-exclusive kosher hotel is some change nothing, but most of us are some the dream and only slightly more expensive level of ‘in-betweeener’. For eight days a year, than buying all the required cleaning materials I kick myself for not marrying a Sephardi as, and KLP foodstuffs. despite not changing over, we do like to do the With more than four million followers on ‘essence’ of Pesach, in that we don’t eat bread, Instagram, Sophie Hinchcliffe, aka Mrs Hinch, rice and pasta etc. Chocolate is the fourth food is someone who would not be fazed by Pesach group that is problematic as we do only buy – in fact, she’d probably embrace it. With the KLP (kosher l’Pesach), which is particularly Hinch Army following her on social challenging. It is the one week of the media, her own YouTube channel year that I bake, though, so this and three published books, it’s calms the offspring’s moans for (soda) crystal clear that there’s the first few days at least. plenty of interest in cleaning Two words that instill hacks and advice. fear and dread in many Jews From cleaning doors with are ‘Pesach’ and ‘cleaning’, fabric conditioner to pouring especially when used in the vinegar that I only ever thought same sentence, the former was good on chips down the sink, often referred to simply as the she would have Pesach cleaning ‘P’ word and one you should not, sorted quicker than you could say under any circumstances, be the first to mention.

Mrs Hinch Dayenu. I’m considering becoming a Jewish Mrs Hinch – Mrs Spritz! “Nu, ya I’ve done a little research and found get your schmatter and ya schmear it over the that there are those among us who have difwork surface with a little bit of schmaltz and it ferent, ahem, ‘coping’ strategies. Some start the comes up so clear you can see your punam in it. cleaning process in January; some never have Who knew?” chametz upstairs, thereby slashing the job in Our own house is our own business, but half; others have cleaners and helpful husbands and some fit it in with a house move. Then there the outside world belongs to us all and it is our responsibility to keep it clean and safe. If eveare those who have a Pesach kitchen. Of course,

ryone did their bit, we could really improve the but eating. Chametz eating. I give my family such eclectic, mismatched, fusion meals to cleanliness of the environment. There finish all the forbidden stuff that by the is nobody who believes this more time it’s Pesach, they’re delighted than Judi Herman, arts editor at with what I serve them. “Meat, Jewish Renaissance. She and her potatoes and green veg with no husband bought each other side of baked beans in a wholelitter pickers for their annimeal wrap? Bring it on, mum!” versary and now walk around Whether you go for just not their local area picking up all eating bread or do the full-on kinds of rubbish, making sure deep clean and changeover, they bag it so the birds and foxes Pesach is a wonderful festival don’t get to it. Judi and Steve, the where we can all celebrate our Jewish self-titled ‘litterati’, are encourheritage and, this year, for the first time aging the Jewish community to get since 2020, we can do it with family involved with the Keep Britain Tidy Marie Kondo and friends. When you sit down for campaign, whose seventh annual your seder, albeit exhausted, think about the #GBSpringClean and #GBSchoolClean runs millions of Jews around the world sharing the until 10 April 2022. www.keepbritaintidy.org same experience.

It’s not only cleaning that needs to be done,

TIDY TIPS

A Pesach clearout would present no challenge at all to decluttering expert Russ Doffman at DeclutterUs or indeed her clients. A self-styled sergeant major when it comes to keeping a house tidy, she strives to create a utopia in her clients’ homes. Successful declutterers will have wardrobes with clothes and accessories easily accessible, arranged in colour or style order. Teenagers find that their revision notes and homework are neatly filed and readily reachable. Kitchen utensils, spices and ingredients are immediately visible on opening the cupboards and drawers.

Russ’ top tips for keeping your house in order are:

BEFORE

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5. Don’t buy any storage items until you need them and have measured the space they will go in 6. Make a memory box for each of your children to store treasured items from their childhood. When they move out, give it to them 7. Once you have decluttered, stay decluttered! www.declutterus.co.uk

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JN LIFE Drinking four cups of wine is a fundamental requirement at the Passover seder.

Outside Israel we have two seders, so that’s eight cups of wine. The holiday of Passover is celebrated for eight days so, beyond the seder, there are many more meals at which we can enjoy some great wines.

Therefore, I recommend here not only four but six wines for the upcoming holiday.

If you follow me on Instagram (@kosherwine_gg), perhaps you know that I usually drink rosé for the four cups at the seder. This is because rosé wines are generally lighter in body, fruit-forward and lighter in alcohol than red wines, making them easier to drink quickly. Like many other Jews, I also have the minhag (custom) of using only red wine for the four cups – and rosé is considered red from a ‘Jewish legal’ perspective, at least according to most opinions.

Herzog Lineage Rosé 2021 is lovely, fun and fruity. It is made from Pinot Noir grapes grown in the Herzog family’s estate Prince Vineyard in Clarksburg, CA. It features a vast array of tropical and berry fruit flavours, all well balanced by mouth-watering acidity.

While I use rosé for most cups at the seder, I typically open a bottle of special, properlyaged red wine from my collection to enjoy with the meal. Suppose you are lucky enough to own a bottle of Latour Netofa Red from the

FOUR CUPS AND BEYOND

by Gabriel Geller, manager of wine education at Kedem Europe and roasted herbs, and savoury undertones of 2013 vintage or older. In that case, I highly dried mushrooms and cured meats. recommend you open and enjoy it with your For those who have the minhag to use white loved ones at the seder! wine at the seder, If you do not have Cantina Giuliano an aged wine or prefer Vermentino 2020 is younger wines, Latour a wonderful option.

Netofa Red 2018 is It is dry, with excelalready delicious lent acidity, with now and should be aromas and flavours considered. A Rhône of honeysuckle, lime, Valley-style blend of pear and hints of Syrah and Mourcantaloupe and green vèdre, this mediumapple. As I write this, to full-bodied wine I am making a mental features a silky texnote to drink this ture, medium acidity wine with matzah ball and soft tannins, with soup (we eat gebrokts notes of black and on Passover in our red berry fruits, spicy notes of black pepper A selection of red and white wines for the seder house!).

Some people also have the custom only to use non-mevushal (or ‘cooked’) wine. Here is an easy-to-drink wine with reasonable alcohol content, light-tomedium in body, neither oaky nor too fruity. Made from organically grown Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes (little to no pesticides used in the vineyard), Château Trijet 2020 is an honest, pleasant, balanced, and inexpensive non-mevushal Bordeaux.

Year after year, Terra di Seta makes some of the best-value kosher wines in Europe in general and in Italy in particular.

The entry-level Terra di Seta Chianti Classico is always a winner, and the 2019 is no exception. Medium-bodied with red berry and cherry fruit notes, savoury with high acidity, this wine respects Italian tradition by being a great food-pairing wine.

The superstar value Elvi Herenza Rioja 2019 from Spain has same attributes as Terra di Seta and features all the elements of quality Tempranillo: red fruit, smoke, spiciness, coffee, toffee and balanced acidity, coupled with soft tannins and a velvety texture.

Now is the time to brainstorm ideas for kosher l’Pesach tapas and paella! L’chaim, Pesach kosher V’sameyach!  Kosher wines are available in selected supermarkets and kosher stores – www.kedemeurope.com

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MAKING SENSE OF THE SEDRA In our thought-provoking new series, rabbis and rebbetzins relate the week’s parsha to the way we live today

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by this disease when they spoke ill of another person. With his words, the metzora has caused someone harm, and thereby he has caused a rupture and dissonance within the Jewish people. We read that he is required to sit outside of the camp. Isolated, this space gives him time to reflect.

By being placed outside of the camp, the metzora himself becomes the embodiment of the emotional rift he has caused with his words. He experiences what he caused.

During this period, the metzora is considered impure and he must call out: “Impure, impure,’” when people pass him by. Most commentators say this is so the people around him are aware of his status and can maintain their distance (so as not to become impure too).

However, the Malbim, a 19th cen-

Being part of a community is an important aspect of Jewish life. Achdut (unity) is a word that echoes after every tragedy that befalls the Jewish people.

We pride ourselves that in those moments, we come together. This especially resonates with the war in Ukraine and now the terrorist attacks in Israel. Jews all over the world are ready to help, donate, pray and support those affected.

In this week’s Torah reading, Tazira, we learn about the metzora, a person who is affected by a spiritual malady, commonly called leprosy. The rabbis say a person would be affected

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tury rabbi born in what we know today as Ukraine, sheds a different light on this law. He says the metzora is unable to pray for his own healing and has to appeal to his fellow Jews to pray on his behalf. The metzora, who has caused a rift in the Jewish nation with his words, has to physically isolate himself and the way out, so the Malbim explains, is by connecting himself back to his people, by bringing back a sense of unity. His healing comes from repairing the very element to which he caused damage in the first place: unity within our people.

We focus on unity during tragedies such as the attacks in Israel this week and the terrible circumstances in which our fellow Jews from Ukraine find themselves. We hear of everybody rallying around, supporting each other and praying for each other.

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What would Shimon bar Yochai do after release from captivity in Iran?

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, released from captivity in Iran two weeks ago, has been through an ordeal I wouldn’t wish on anyone. She lost six precious years of her daughter’s childhood. She was subjected to solitary confinement for almost nine months, bombarded with lights and blaring televisions when she needed to sleep and interrogated for eight hours a day. The long-term impact will continue for her and her family well beyond our news cycles.

Isolation and persecution are themes to which Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai could relate. A prominent student of Rabbi Akiva, he fled into hiding with his son when Hadrian’s persecution of the Jews and Bar Yochai’s opposition to Roman rule made him a target. According to Shabbat 33b, he spent 12 years in a cave with his son, suffering isolation and undertaking strange practices to protect his clothes and continue learning Torah.

After 12 years, the Emperor died, and with him went the death sentence issued against Bar Yochai. So he emerged from isolation, but he was changed, bearing external and internal scars. His passion and zealotry for Torah meant that when he laid eyes upon anyone not learning it, his look would literally kill them. He was ordered back into his cave by a voice from heaven and spent another year adjusting.

It did not take long for Nazanin’s eyes to blaze out in understandable anger. Anger at losing six years of her life and her daughter’s growth. Anger at government wrangling and trying to dodge debts. Anger at politicians who misspoke, giving her captors ammunition to extend her incarceration, although it may be they would have found other reasons.

Bar Yochai needed a year before he was able to function on a slightly more societal level and not kill people with his looks of disdain at their wasteful pursuits.

I imagine Nazanin and her family are craving every ounce of normality, while also realising that nothing can possibly be normal after such a long and painful trauma. Had Nazanin been the ancient rabbi, perhaps some politicians and journalists would have been felled by her blazing eyes.

It will take time for normal service to be resumed, but I hope it is time in which she is shown love and care by all of those around her.

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This week: Changes to divorce law, the benefits of amplified home telephones and monitoring employees’ internet use VANESSA LLOYD PLATT DIVORCE AND FAMILY SOLICITOR

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Dear Vanessa When does the change to the divorce law come in and what will it mean?

Janice Dear Janice The Divorce Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 comes into effect on 6 April and will sweep away the need for fault-based divorce. Instead of having to cite grounds for divorce based either on adultery or unreasonable behaviour, the parties can now simply give notice that the marriage has broken down. There is no need to wait two years for the consent of the other party or five years if they don’t give consent.

The parties must have been married for more

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JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION Dear Sue My mum lives alone and is housebound. She often doesn’t hear the phone ring and I panic when I can’t get hold of her. When she does answer, she can barely hear me and it’s so hard to have a conversation. Can you help?

Linda Dear Linda Yes, we can help – our home visiting service is for people just

like your mum. We’ll send someone to visit her at home to demonstrate amplified phones with loud ringers – she’ll be able to try them out and see with which one she hears best.

They’re much louder and clearer than ordinary phones, so she’s likely to notice a big difference between them and the phones she currently has at home.

If she decides to buy a phone, we’ll then help her to order one for delivery to her home address. Once it’s installed, we’ll visit again and make sure she knows how to use it.

Do let us know if your mum is struggling with anything else, such as hearing the television or simply having a conversation.

than a year, the marriage must be legally recognised in the UK and must state that the UK is the parties’ permanent home or that of their spouse and if the marriage has permanently broken down.

In order to deal with the new law, either one or both of the parties can make the application. One of the fundamental changes is that the option to contest a divorce will no longer be available.

A conditional degree of divorce will be granted and thereafter, if the judge agrees, the couple can apply for a final order.

The act reduces a minimum 26-week timeframe for the completion of divorce proceedings. The conditional degree is granted in 20 weeks and the final decree is granted six weeks after that. This means the whole process takes six months.

It is hoped the new rules will minimise stress and alleviate conflict.

We’ll take along whatever she needs to try, and we’ll patiently explain how to use it.

If social services can provide any of the equipment she would benefit from, we can also make a referral to them to make sure she gets everything required to help with her hearing loss.

Please call Gabrielle at JDA on 020 8446 0214 or email gabrielle@jdeaf.org.uk.

We look forward to helping your mum and alleviating stress for the whole family.

EMMA GROSS EMPLOYMENT LAW AND DATA PROTECTION

SPENCER WEST Dear Emma I’ve recently recruited a new salesman to the team and have noticed that he’s always looking at dubious websites. I’ve spoken to him about it and he has promised to stop. As an employer, am I entitled to monitor my employees’ use of electronic systems and websites in the office? Is there a right to privacy in the workplace?

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Dear David Employees’ use of email and the internet (including their activities on social network sites and blogs) can lead to performance issues, damage to the employer’s reputation, loss of business and various legal liabilities.

However, employers can only monitor employees’ actions to prevent liability arising in certain circumstances and there need to be specific policies in place.

Monitoring employee use of email and the internet involves the processing of personal data which, according to the GDPR, may not be processed unless there is a lawful basis for doing so.

Employees must also be informed of the basis and the

purposes for which it will be processed.

The Employment Practices Code contains guidance on monitoring at work, including that workers have a legitimate expectation of privacy and that monitoring must only be carried out if it is proportionate to do so and that workers are informed.

It also recommends encouraging workers to mark personal emails as such in the subject line.

I would recommend adopting an IT and communications policy that outlines the standards employees must observe when using these systems, when you will monitor their use, and the action you will take if they breach these standards.

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Business Services Directory HOUSE CLEARANCE

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Stirling of Kensal Green

Top prices paid Antique – Reproduction – Retro Furniture (any condition)

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