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8 September 2022 • 12 Elul 5782 • Issue 1279 Community welcomes PM Liz Truss, pages 2, 3, 4, 20, 22 & 24 Grunwald-Spier,of Yes,ministerprime ■ On Israel: ‘Under my leadership Israel will have no stauncher friend’ ■ On Iran: ‘The UK cannot allow Tehran to gain a weapon’nuclear ■ On Israel boycotts: ‘Public bodies should not engage in policies’discriminatory ■ On antisemitism: ‘ Those spewing Jew hate will face full force of the law’ ■ On Judaism: ‘Jewish values are BritishvaluesConservative–andvalues’ ■ On the United Nations: ‘Too many countries do Israel down at upforums.internationalIwillstandagainstthem’ FREE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR

The result of a ballot of party members was disclosed at a ceremony on Monday, where it was conﬁrmed that she had beaten Rishi Sunak in the leadership contest. Truss got 57.4 per cent of the vote. At 82.6 per cent, the turnout was lower than it was in the ballot in which Johnson elected in 2019.

Liz Truss has conﬁrmed that the government internet, had also been hailed by ministers as Online Bill subject of PMQs

Michael Ellis has been appointed attorney general in Liz Truss’s ﬁrst Cabinet. The departure of transport secretary Grant Shapps means the QC is the only Jewish MP in the top team. Truss announced a string of appointments after delivering a short speech outside Downing Street on Tuesday. Ellis, MP for Northampton North, has served as solicitor general, transport minister, and deputy Commons leader. Ellis was preferred by Truss for the attorney general role over Lucy Frazer, who is also Jewish. Frazer, a QC, was expected to be given a junior ministerial role. In other big appointments, Anne-Marie Trevelyan replaced Shapps in the transport role, Kwasi Kwarteng is chancellor, James Cleverly is foreign secretary and Suella Braverman is home secretary, replacing Priti Patel. Therese Co ey is the new health secretary. Nadhim Zahawi remains a Cabinet O ce minister, becoming chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Tom Tugendhat is security minister, another Cabinet role, Michelle Donelan is secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport and Ben Wallace stays as defence secretary.

Liz Truss has confirmed that the government will be “proceeding” with the Online Safety Bill – but has suggested “tweaks” may be needed. Asked at her first Prime Minister’s Questions as leader yesterday by Tory MP Jeremy Wright whether she would commit “swifty” to “balanced, sensible regulation” she said: “There are some issues that we need to deal with.“What I want to make sure is that we protect the underage teens from harm, but we also want to make sure free speech is allowed. So there may be some tweaks required.” The Bill, originally unveiled as a way of protecting young people from harm on the internet, had also been hailed by ministers as a means to tackle antisemitic hate online. The PM’s spokesperson was later quizzed by journalists on whether the tweaks might include removal of the “legal but harmful” definition that has angered free speech advocates. Earlier ,Truss had come face to face across the dispatch box with Keir Starmer. The Labour leader seemed keen to allow her to set out her position on tackling the energy and cost of living crisis. It opened up ideological dividing lines between them, with Truss declaring that a windfall tax on the profits of energy companies, as favoured by Labour, would be wrong.

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Liz Truss received a broadly warm welcome from the UK’s Jewish community following the announcement that she would succeed Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader.

The Board of Deputies congratulated the new PM saying: “We congratulate Liz Truss and wish her well in navigating the challenging circumstances facing our country.

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QC Michael Ellis is promoted and Grant Shapps is replaced

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“The Board of Deputies looks forward to continuing its strong relationship with the British government, advocating for our community at the highest levels.” In a statement, the Jewish Leadership Council said it “looks forward to working closely with her to address the issues and concerns a ecting the Jewish community and our Conservativemembers”.Friends of Israel’s parliamentary chairmen Stephen Crabb (Commons) and Lord Pickles (Lords), and its honorary president, Lord Polak, said: “The prime minister has repeatedly demonstrated her commitment to supporting Israel and tackling antisemitism, from challenging anti-Israel bias at the United Nations to standing side by side with Israel in the ﬁght against terrorism. As international trade secretary, she visited Israel to discuss a new free trade deal, and during her time as foreign secretary she signed an unprecedented ten-year strategic partnership with Israel. Conservative Friends of Israel said: “We look forward to working with Prime Minister Truss and her new government to take the stateofsociety,tributionnityJewishedlyandpaign,summer’stoshipUK-Israelever-growingrelation-fromstrengthstrength”.Duringthecam-bothTrussSunakrepeat-praisedthecommu-fortheircon-toBritishandbothspoketheirsupportfortheofIsrael.SirGrahamBrady,chair

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“I’m not walking out on the role or either candidate and will continue to support where“Buthelpful.whatI was speciﬁcally asked to do is essentially complete so it seems right that I make clear to both leadership contenders that they may be able to save on a ministerial post when they take over.” Last month, Harrington called for payments to those hosting Ukrainian refugees in the UK to be doubled.

Dominic Raab became a high-proﬁle casualty as the new prime minister put together her cabinet.

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Lord Harrington stood down this week as minister for refugees just 24 hours before Liz Truss was named as the new primeButminister.theformer Watford MP, who is Jewish, said his resignation is no reflection on either Truss, rather he feels it is the right time to leave what was a “temporary” position – he was appointed in March following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the previous month and criticism of UK e orts to house Ukrainian and Afghan refugees..TheHarrington, who has remained influential in Conservative Friends of Israel, told Times Radio on Sunday: “I was brought in to do a very specific job, which was to set up working machinery across government to deal with helping the Ukrainians in need.

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The son of a Czech-born Jewish refugee who ﬂed the Nazis in 1938, Raab lasted less than a year in his position of deputy prime minister, lord chancellor and justice secretary. The 48-year-old, who backed Rishi Sunak to be the next Tory leader, reportedly said earlier this week it was likely he would face the sack. The MP for Esher and Walton since 2010 is also believed to have said he thinks he has a 50/50 chance of holding on to his constituency seat at the next election. In 2019, he had a majority of 2,743.

Truss and Sunak were the candidates who came top after ﬁve consecutive rounds of voting by MPs to ﬁnd Johnson’s successor.

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Truss formally took over as prime minister on DuringTuesday.theleadership campaign Truss unveiled a pledge to Britain’s Jews in which she vowed to “eradicate the scourge of antisemitism”.Asforeign secretary she has repeatedly spoken of her support for Israel, saying the Jewish state is a “beacon of freedom and democracy”. Truss has also pledged to secure a free trade deal with Israel and has condemned the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement, which she pledged to ﬁght. As prime minister she will inherit a costof-living crisis, the continued aftershocks of Brexit and Russia’s war against Ukraine. Truss’s comments in support of British Jews also attracted some criticism after she spoke of a “woke” civil service that was beset by “creeping antisemitism”. Many Jewish civil servants expressed surprise at the claim. Her earlier pledge in support of UK Jewry praised the community for upholding family values, and for being pro-business, although some objected to that second descriptor.

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1922 Committee, conﬁrmed the result of vote of the lengthy leadership contest in front of party MPs at the QEII Centre in Westminster.Trusstold the audience after the announcement: “During this Shetwodelivershowasandacampaignedcampaign,leadershipIasConservativeIwillgovernaConservative.“Weneedtothatwewilloverthenextyears.”concludedherspeech

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with a promise to “deliver a great victory” for her party in a 2024 general election. “We all will deliver for our country and I will make sure that we use all the fantastic talents of the Conservative Party, our brilliant members of parliament and peers, our fantastic councillors, our MSs [members of the senedd], our MSPs [members of the Scottish Parliament], all of our councillors and activists and members right across our country.”

Raab is sacked after less than a year as deputy PM

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In a tweet on Tuesday, he said: “Thanks to the brilliant MoJ team for all their hard work over the last year. Good luck to the new PM and her team. I look forward to supporting the government from the backbenches.”Raabhaddesigns on the Conservative Party leadership in 2019, although he fell at the second hurdle and subsequently backed Boris DuringJohnson.that 2019 contest, the married father of two said he would “probably not” describe himself as a feminist although he was “all for working women making the very best of their potential”.

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“We now have a process in place that means there won’t necessarily be the need for a minister like myself.

In a letter to the Times, published on Wednesday, the writers drew attention to last week’s unveiling of a new Kindertransport memorial statue in Harwich, which, they said, “reminds us of Britain’s duty to welcome refugees, and the consequences of failing to protect those ﬂeeing persecution”.

The signatories say the present threat of deportation to Rwanda “should bring shame on our country”, adding that “if Liz Truss is serious about representing Jewish values, we would encourage her to consider the command to ‘welcome the stranger’ made 36 times in the Hebrew Bible”.

Anger at election of senior JVL official to Labour’s ruling body POLICY, JCORE URGES NEW PM supporter: Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi

A call for the new prime minister, Liz Truss, to abandon the policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, has been made by a group of rabbis and communal leaders, spearheaded by the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCore).

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The co-founder of the pro-Jeremy Corbyn Jewish Voice For Labour (JVL) group has been elected on to Labour’s national executive committee (NEC), writes Lee Harpin. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi –who once defended the former Labour leader over his comments in support of the artist behind an antisemitic mural – was one of nine constituency Labour Party (CLP) candidates elected on to the ruling body following internal elections.TheJVL o cial’s elevation to a role on the NEC will mean she now has input into decision taken at the highest levels of the party.

Wimborne-Idrissi’s success, which came about in an election determined by the single-transferable vote system, was greeted with anger and alarm by mainstream communal groups including the Board of Deputies, Community Security Trust, as well as by the Jewish Labour Movement. She was the last of the nine successful candidates to be elected, attracting 4,686 ﬁrst-preference votes from Labour members. The overall results of the NEC elections also showed that successes for candidates supportive of Keir Starmer, in particular those linked to the Labour To Win group, meant that the Labour leader increased his control over the 39-member ruling body, on which he himself sits. But one senior Labour o cial conceded to Jewish News that the election of Wimborne-Idrissi to the NEC was “an obvious setback” in the leadership’s continued attempts to win back as much support from within the Jewish community as possible.

A joint statement by the CST, Jewish Leadership Council and Board of Deputies in response to the results described WimborneIdrissi’s election as “a backwards step in tackling the toxic legacy of anti-Jewish racism” from Corbyn’sTheyleadership.added that the result “demonstrates the scale of the challenge still remaining for the party”.Mike Katz, JLM’s national chair, said an “otherwise positive set of results has been marred” by Wimborne-Idrissi’s election.” He added: “Despite huge strides, this shows there is an extreme segment of Labour’s membership who are determined to set back the progress the party has made.” Katz said the results would make “our members and allies worried and angry”.

The letter is signed by Dr Edie Friedman of JCore, county councillor Lawrence Brass, who is also a former treasurer of the Board of Deputies, former Board president Henry Grunwald, QC, human rights lawyer Adam Wagner and a number of rabbis.

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A moving ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre in which 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were murdered has taken place inside the Palace of Westminster, writes Lee Harpin.

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Hosted by House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, the remembrance ceremony was instigated by Lord Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism, who suggested marking within the Palace of Westminster the anniversary of the terrorist attack by the Palestinian Black September group.

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Top award for Essex blood donor rabbi East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue Rabbi Emeritus David Hulbert has received a certiﬁcate and medal under the NHS donor recognition scheme for donating 100 pints of blood, the equivalent of 12.5 gallons. He had donated 107 pints by the time of the presentation, which was postponed for two years because of the pandemic.

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Speaker’s Chaplain Tricia Hillas opened the event, which took place in New Palace Yard, with a reading, before Sir Hugh Robertson, chairman of the British Olympic Association, spoke.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Lord Polak, Lord Pickles, Israeli Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely and representatives from the Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council were among those to attend the event, which featured poignant Psalm readings and the laying of wreaths.

‘UK’s most racist YouTuber’ exposed A journalism graduate who used codewords on YouTube broadcasts to escape censorship while mounting vicious attacks on Jews and other ethnic minorities has been exposed as a neo-Nazi.James Owens, 37, was named by the Times as “Britain’s most racist You Tuber” after labelling Jews “people who look white but aren’t” and referring to Adolf Hitler as “our uncle”. He hid identity by calling himself ‘the Ayatollah’ and using a false proﬁle picture but was exposed in an investigation.

Rabbi Hulbert was following in the footsteps of his friend Mark Finkletaub, who received his award last year. For more about donating, see www.blood.co.uk.

A man with an obsession for the Jewish broadcaster Emily Maitlis has been given an eight-year prison sentence for repeatedly writing to her. Edward Vines was found guilty by a jury of eight counts of attempting to breach a restraining order by writing to the presenter and her mother from prison. The court heard that the letters did not reach Maitlis as they were intercepted by staff at Nottingham Prison. The restraining order was originally made 20 years ago.

Ambassador Hotovely read Psalm 23 in both English and Hebrew, before the Chief Rabbi called for a moment of silence. Rabbi Mirvis then recited the Kel Malech Rachamim prayer of mercy, before the names of the 11 victims were read out. In a closing speech, Lindsay Hoyle recalled “one of the darkest chapters in Olympic history”. Lord Mann recalled that the massacre drew huge audiences in the UK among those owning TV sets, adding: “It framed the country’s attitude to Israel for a whole generation.”  Interview with Munich survivor, p11

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There are awards for Upstanders – those to stand up to hate – in the ﬁelds of sport, media, parliament, social research, community, the Crown Prosecution Service, local authority, law enforcement and business. There is also a Young Upstander Award.

Sponsored by Jewish News, the Mirror, the Community Security Trust, TellMAMA and the LGBT+ anti-abuse charity Galop, the awards celebrate those who push back against hate directed at race, gender, religion, disability or sexuality. “These heroes and heroines stand up for the dignity of others,” said No2H8 Awards chair Fiyaz Mughal, who founded an anti-Islamophobia charity. “The awards recognise and celebrate their courageous actions and their social values.”

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The awards ceremony will be held in London in November.

Gould has held diplomatic postings in Tehran, Islamabad, Washington, and Manila. He has taught in Zimbabwe, done ecological research in Tanzania and published work on the feeding preferences of termites.

CMG for services to the scientific and tech partnership between Britain and Israel and an MBE for services to child protection in the Philippines. Praising ZSL’s sta and its 155,000 members, he said: “My mission will be to give it a laserlike focus on saving species through its zoos, advocacy, science and its conservation projects around the world.” Most recently, Gould led the digital transformation of the health and care team guiding the NHS through the pandemic by developing the NHS Datastore, which allowed the crisis to be managed using real-time data. Before that, he was the government’s first director-general for digital and media, as well as its cyber -ecurity director. While in Israel, he built an ambitious programme of scientific collaboration on regenerative medicine. ZSL president Prof Sir John Beddington said: “The challenges faced by the world cannot be underestimated. We are losing biodiversity at an alarming pace. ZSL is in a unique position to make a real di erence.”

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“The work of ZSL has never been more necessary or important,” he added. “Every day, more than 100 species go extinct. Saving species is not a luxury, it is critical to humanity’s own health and survival.”

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Nominations for the National No2H8 Crime Awards 2022, which honour people or groups who have stood up to hate, are about to close, writes Adam Decker. The judges will be accepting names until tomorrow, 9 September.

A popular former British ambassador to Israel who spearheaded several bilateral partnerships in science and technology has stepped down from his senior digital role with the NHS to become head of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).

A visiting professor at Leeds University, he has an honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion University, a

The Covid-19 pandemic has stopped the awards since 2019, when Chelsea Football Club were recognised for their ‘Say No to antisemitism’Pastcampaign.Jewish winners include former Labour MP Luciana Berger as well as Masorti’s Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, who was jointly honoured alongside Imam Mamadou Bocoum for interfaith work. “The awards are the annual event to celebrate men and women in our communities who stand up for men, women or children abused because of their identities,” Mughal added. “More than ever, we need to challenge street-based and online hate, so our society continues to be one based on kindness, merit and care, rather than intolerance, prejudice and hatred. We have seen how quick such hate can spread.”

The National Union of Students has suspended its president, Shaima Dallali, while an investigation into allegations of antisemitism in the body is againstclaimsRebeccaansioncameDallali’scompleted.suspensionaftertheconclu-oftheﬁrstpartofinquirycarriedoutbyTuckQCintoofdiscriminationJewishstudents.Sourcestold Jewish News the suspension was not part of any disciplinary action but was viewed as “appropriate” at thisAnystage”.sanctions against Dallali, 27, can be considered at the end of Tuck’s inquiry, which has still to look at the institutional record of the NUS. The NUS said: “We cannot comment at this time as we are in the middle of an independent, QC-led investigation into allegations of antisemitism. But we are prepared to take any and all actions recommended by the investigation.” It is the ﬁrst time an elected president of NUS has been suspended in its 100-year history. In response, the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (Fosis) threatened to launch a disa liation campaign. Fosis said the NUS had a track record of failing to help Muslim students in elected positions in the organisation. In a 2012 tweet, Dallali shared an Islamic battle cry historically used when attacking Jews. She later apologised for the tweet.

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Matthew Gould, whose digital health team was behind Britain’s award-winning Covid Pass, will become the ZSL’s new director-general next week. The rate of global extinctions meant it was “a big job at a big moment”, he said.

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The story of how the family came to look after Suze has been handed down and Chris said: “Joost and Anna were known for being very patriotic and were approached by the Dutch Resistance and asked to look after this little girl.

“Their home was searched by the Gestapo but it had two lofts and they searched the wrong one – the other was blocked o and they didn’t search it.

A Welsh pensioner has forged an emotional bond with the daughter of a Jewish girl who was saved from the Nazis in wartime Netherlands by his incredibly brave grandparents. Almost 80 years on, Joost and Anna Schoen’s grandson, Chris, a retired printer from Penygroes in Gwynedd, met Arleen Kennedy, the daughter of Suze van der Bijl, who escaped certain death in an extermination camp thanks to their courage. The remarkable meeting happened two years after Chris removed a swastika which had been painted on the wall of a pub in his home village and spoke out against the scourge of racism. The dramatic story was revealed for the ﬁrst time in the show Gwesty Aduniad (Reunion Hotel) on the Welsh TV channel S4C this week. It has echoes of the tragedy of Anne Frank but, unlike the ill-fated diarist, ﬁve-year-old Suze lived to tell her own story in person. Sadly, Suze’s parents and brother and sister were killed in the Sobibor death camp in Poland where it is estimated that up to 250,000 Jews were murdered, with the vast majority being gassed within hours of arrival.Suze survived because railway worker Joost and his wife, Anna, sheltered her and passed her o as their daughter during the chaotic days following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 as Gestapo gangs continued to round up Dutch Jews – including Anne Frank who died in Bergen-Belsen in early 1945.

Encounter echoes Anne Man who removed swastika grafﬁti meets daughter of a Jewish girl his grandparents saved from the Nazis, writes Alastair Syme pened two years after Chris look after this little girl. to shipped o to Sobibor ticular was a very feisty woman –Arleen and Diane. But despite her new life, Suze van der Bijl as a little girl Joost and Anna Schoen and their children – Chris Schoen’s dad, Jaap, is back left

“They asked Suze what was in the loft and she replied ‘Mice’, so I don’t think they were very bright – she was the only dark-haired one in a family who were all blond. “But it was dangerous. In a nearby village, all the young men were taken as forced labour to Germany and not many came back. My father, Jaap, who was a young man in his early 20s, spent the rest of the war going from hiding place to hiding place to avoid something similar happening to him.” Jaap joined the Dutch Army after the war and was sent for training to the UK where he met his future wife, Pamela, in Wolverhampton, marrying her in 1947. They started a family and he worked for the Co-op and rose to be a manager, moving the family to Cardi when he became a buyer for the food department at the David Morgan department store In Cardi , Chris worked as a printer before moving to Gwasg Gwynedd Printers in Caernarfon in 1995 and then as an administrator at Ysbyty Gwynedd, learning Welsh along the way, but he was always proud of the family connection with the Netherlands and the little Jewish girl they had saved. As a boy, he had family holidays with their Dutch relatives, including Chris’s cousin and family historian Ed Van Rijswijk. They were also visited by Suze and her daughters from the USA but it wasn’t until Gwesty Aduniad brought them together that he met Arleen. They did receive a reel of ﬁlm of Suze’s wedding from the USA and he remembers his father getting a projector and his mum putting a bedsheet up on the wall and seeing for the

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“Her mother had handed her over to the Resistance because she knew she and her husband and their two older children were going to be picked up by the Gestapo – they were shipped o to Sobibor and were murdered in the gas chambers there soon after arriving.

Suze was reunited with other surviving members of her family in the Netherlands after the war and emigrated with them to the USA where she married and had two daughters, Arleen and Diane. But despite her new life, she never forgot the courageous family who risked death to save her. Arleen was ﬂown to the UK to meet Chris by Caernarfon-based television company Darlun, who make Gwesty Aduniad

“My grandmother in particular was a very feisty woman –she would plant orange marigolds outside the house and the Nazis would rip them out but she’d replant them anyway. “They were involved in sheltering Allied airmen shot down in the Netherlands and using a hidden radio and a printing press to pass on information – Suze even slept under the printing press in the loft.

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In 2012 a Yad Vashem ceremony was held in an Amsterdam synagogue to remember Dutch people who risked their lives to help persecuted Jews during the War. Chris’s grandparents were among those recognised with medals and certiﬁcates which Ed received on the family’s behalf.

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Chris added: “There are still Holocaust deniers out there and people need to be reminded that this was a reality and should not be forgotten. It impacted my family and millions of Serieslives.”producer Gwenllian Gri th, of programme-makers Darlun, said: “It is a lovely story and it has been so little known until now but it was sad as well because Suze’s family o ered their little girl to the Resistance because they knew their own fate was sealed.”

The programme featuring Chris and Arleen telling their remarkable story is now available to watch on catch-up TV. Now he Joost and Anna Schoen inscribed on the Yad Vashem memorial Certificate of honour from Yad Vashem Chris and Arleen meeting during the filming of Gwesty Aduniad (Hotel Reunion)

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ﬁrst time the young woman his grandparents had saved from the Nazis when she was a child. Chris remembers his father always used to point to the bride and say “That’s the little Jewish girl we hid”, but sadly the ﬁlm has now beenNowlost.he believes he and Arleen share a bond as if she is a step-cousin, although they had never managed to have a close connection until the programme brought them together at a former stately home near Bangor. It turned out to be a delight, said Chris: “The programme contacted me and said they wanted to organise a reunion and they managed to get everyone on board and earlier this year I met up with her. “It was great. I was very nervous but she turned out to be a real character and lovely to get on “Wewith.keep in touch now on Facebook and she has invited me to go over to Massachusetts. It’s just great that we’ve been brought together after all these years.”

The courage of Chris’s grandparents in sheltering little Suze from the Nazis has been recognised when their story was featured in the book The Other Schindler’s List, which was published in 1999. His cousin Ed’s research has led to Joost and Anna being recognised by the Yad Vashem, Israel’s o cial memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, with a specially minted medal bearing their name, a certiﬁcate of honour, and their names on the Wall of Honour in the Garden of the Righteous in Jerusalem.

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Shaul Ladany still remembers clearly the third time he cheated death. The Israeli had just competed in the 50km walk at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and had been collecting cuttings from local newspaper reports until the early hours of September 5 at his Olympic Village apartment in Connollystrasse. He said he had not been asleep long when a teammate jolted him awake. “Somebody touched me, I opened my eyes, and Zelig Shtroch, from the second floor of my apartment, is there,” Ladany, now 86, told the PA news agency. “He says ‘Moshe has been killed by Arabs’. In the first split-second I thought he was joking. Zelig was my roommate in Mexico City too and he was a big joker. But in the next split of the second I realised this is something people don’t jokeLadanyabout.” says “without thinking” he went to the door of Apartment 2, and found himself four or five metres from the man he now knows was Luttif Afif, the leader of the Black September Palestinian terror group.Ladany went back inside, and those gathered in Apartment 2 left via a bedroom. Ladany recalls being the last to leave – and was the first to raise the alarm as he walked alongside his building to see the head of the Israeli Olympic mission in Apartment 5 rather than fleeing with the others. Hostages were taken from Apartments 1 and 3 by Black September. Nine Israelis died when the German authorities’ rescue attempt at the Furstenfeldbruck airfield failed. Two others, including Moshe Weinberg, who Shtroch mentioned to Ladany, were killed earlier after trying to fight back. For many, such a close brush with death would be di cult to recover from, but Ladany said: “I don’t think psychologically the Munich attack influenced me. Before coming to Munich there were attacks on Israelis and on Israeli airlines. I was aware of the risks. I am not afraid to die. I am very cautious with everything. It doesn’t mean that I want to die. But I am not afraid to die.”

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The Holocaust is an integral part of Israel’s national identity, the country’s president told Germany’s parliament in a speech this week that mentioned both the Third Reich’s atrocities and the friendly relations that have emerged since, writes Michael Daventry. Isaac Herzog said the Shoah, the systemic murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime, was part of what made his country today “whether we want it or not”. “A people who carries in its historic memory such a dark, abysmal, impossible experience, is not a people like all peoples,” he said. “And despite all of this, even if we cannot meet in the realms of memory, we must meet in the realms of meaning and mutual learning. To give meaning to the memory. To treat memory as an obligatory imperative, as a moral imperative, as responsibility.”Herzog added: “Never in human history was there a campaign like the one the Nazis and their accomplices conducted to annihilate the Jewish people.“Never in history was a state responsible, as Nazi Germany was responsible, for the loss of all semblance of humanity, for the erasure of all mercy, for the pursuit of the worldwide obliteration, with such awful

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Four days after Ladany’s fifth birthday in April 1941, the family sheltered in the laundry room of their home in Belgrade during a German air “Araid.bomb entered the house diagonally, hitting on the rear side, the second floor, the ground floor and entered the adjacent basement. Several people were killed. The laundry room saved our lives,” Ladany said. Despite that near-miss, and the persecution of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe, he says he never sensed anxiety from his parents and added: “I was never in panic. Maybe it forged our character, to be strong and to look“Maybeforward.we inherited it from our forefathers, this kind of behaviour of never panicking, always trying to find a way out of very bad situations. This type of behaviour followed me in all my life.“This navigated us through the war years and saved us. For a Jew to survive the Holocaust he did not need a lucky event, he needed a series of lucky events and we had it. It’s not just plain luck, but to navigate our way whenever obstacles occurred or whenever we assumed they might occur.” Among Ladany’s memories of tragedy is the family moving to Budapest, and in 1942 his cousins, Martha and Eva, coming to live with them.They were the children of his mother’s sisters, who along with the girls’ fathers had been massacred in the Serbian city of Novi Sad. Ladany’s maternal grandparents died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

cruelty, on an entire people.” He also recounted his late father, the former Israeli president Chaim Herzog, who was part of the British unit that liberated the Bergen-Belsen camp in April 1945. “I shall never forget how he described to me the horrors he witnessed. The stench. The human skeletons in striped pyjamas, the piles of corpses, the destruction, the hell on earth,” Isaac Herzog told the Bundestag.

Herzog took part in a three-day visit to Germany, which began on Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic massacre. That attack by Palestinian terrorists left 11 Israelis, one German policeman and ﬁve members of the Palestinian terror group Black September dead after members of the Israeli Olympic teams were taken hostageGermany reached a compensation agreement with relatives of the victims last week.

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Ladany ered in Apartment 2 Moshe Weinberg, who think psychologically the Munich there were attacks Holocaust survivor and Israeli sportsman Shaul Ladany stands in front of a photo of himself in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp memorial. Inset: Ladany pictured at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City

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A “brave and wonderful” woman with an incurable lung condition who raised tens of thousands of pounds for research into her disease has died, writes Joy Falk.

Juliet Co er, who lived in Hampshire, had sarcoidosis, which a ects breathing and life expectancy, and rose to national prominence last year in her e ort to raise awareness of the rareBrogancondition.Fricker, of Sarcoidosis UK, said Co er was “a huge part of the community, having been involved with us since March 2021”, adding: “She was a fantastic supporter and fundraiser, raising over £47,000 for our charity, and increasing the proﬁle of sarcoidosis.” The charity was “beyond grateful for everything Juliet did and are honoured to have met her,” said Fricker. “ She was truly a wonderful, kind and brave lady who touched the lives of so many people and will be dearly missed.”

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Co er, who was in her early 50s, made the headlines after walking 100 metres a day in her home to raise money for Sarcoidosis UK, which researches the condition. She set herself a target of walking 3,000 metres throughout April, but smashed it, walking 4,100 metres by the end. “I’m absolutely ecstatic, I can’t believe it,” she told Jewish News at the time. “ “Sometimes, when you think something’s impossible, if you try it you just don’t know – you probably can do it!” She was interviewed on television after her story featured in Jewish News. Sarcoidosis occurs where lumps called granulomas develop at di erent sites within the body. If enough develop around an organ, that can stop it working properly. As one donor said on her fundraising page, “This little known and even lesser understood disease leaves a dark cloud hanging over all a ected.” Co er, whose parents were founding members of Bushey Synagogue, described sarcoidosis as “a bit of a silent disease”, saying: “The fact we’ve now managed to get it on the TV is amazing.”

A Jewish woman from Essex who has an incurable autoimmune condition a ecting the joints is aiming to raise £2,000 for an arthritis charity by completing this year’s London Marathon, writes Adam Decker. Since she was a teenager, Nicole Benjamin, 37, has had Psoriatic Arthritis, a form of inﬂammatory arthritis in which the immune system attacks the joints. In her case, it particularly a ects the ankles, knees, and hips, making walking very painful.

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A science technician at Chigwell School, Nicole was furloughed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and soon discovered the beneﬁts of walking at home. “During lockdown all you were able to do was go for a walk,” she said this week. “I began walking up and down my driveway and that’s what gave me the idea [to walk the marathon for charity]. Turns out, it can be quite good fun!” This will be Nicole’s ﬁrst London Marathon, held on 2 October, when she will raise money through a JustGiving page for Versus Arthritis. She hopes to complete the course in 12 hours.

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A Jewish Google employee who led activism against a major contract with Israel’s govern ment has resigned, citing what she said was retaliation.ArielKoren said in a statement: “Instead of listening to employees who want Google to live up to its ethical principles, Google is aggres sively pursuing military contracts and stripping away the voices of its employees through a pat tern of silencing and retaliation towards me and manyKorenothers.”and another Jewish Google employee last year launched an effort to pressure Google to cancel a billion-pound joint contract with Amazon to build cloud-based data centres on behalf of the Israeli government. She said the project would enable surveil lence of Palestinians.

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Raised racquets, no handshake Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz in Tokyo

Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk refused to shake the hand of her Belaru sian opponent Victoria Azarenka after their second-round match at the US Open, com paring the decision to a Jew being expected to shake a German’s hand in the 1940s. Kostyuk has been the most vocal critic of the lack of condemnation from Russian and Belaru sian players to the invasion of her country. After Azarenka’s 6-2 6-3 victory, 20-year-old Kostyuk did not offer her hand to her opponent, instead holding out her racquet for a cursory tap. She later explained: “My nation is being killed daily. Imagine there is World War Two and there is a fundraiser for Jewish people and a German player wants to play. During the war, not 70 years after the war. I don’t think Jewish people would understand.”

Since Pelosi’s visit, China has escalated mili tary exercises around Taiwan and launched missiles in waters close to Japan, worrying offi cials that China could continue behaviour that threatens the stability of the region.

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Israel this week admitted there was a “high pos sibility” one of its soldiers fired the shot that killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a raid in the West Bank four months ago, writes Michael Daventry.

The Al Jazeera reporter died while covering the operation near the town of Jenin which the Israeli military said was targeting the Pales tinian Islamic Jihad group. An official probe by the Israel Defence Forces found she was likely shot on 11 May by an Israeli soldier who misidentified her. Officials said no criminal charges would be filed. Abu Akleh’s family said they were “deeply hurt, frustrated and disappointed”.

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Kostyuk added: “I just don’t think it’s the right thing to do in the circumstances I’m in right now. I don’t know any single person who condemned the war publicly, and the actions of their government so I don’t feel like I can support this.”

The agreement, officially an expansion of an earlier new defence agreement signed with Israel in 2019, helps Japan push its goal of achieving a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” said Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada, reported by the Associated Press.

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Japan trip comes at the tail end of a visit to the United States, where he discussed Iran’s nuclear programme and other security issues with officials, and as Japan faces heightened tensions in the Pacific following Nancy Pelosi’s August visit to Taiwan, a selfruled democracy that Beijing claims as its own.

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An Israeli official speaking to the AP news agency on condition of anonymity because of military briefing guidelines said: “He misiden tified her. His reports in real time…absolutely point to a misidentification.” IDF analysis concluded Abu Akleh had been standing close to a group of armed Palestinian men who fired towards an Israeli armoured vehicle, Haaretz reported.

The newspaper quoted a high-ranking IDF official as saying: “It cannot be unequivocally determined who shot her. It needs to be said that there were both IDF soldiers and Palestinians at the scene. The most likely scenario is that a sol dier mistakenly fired the shots, while he himself was being fired at.” Al Jazeera and Abu Akleh’s family said the report was an attempt to escape responsibility. “This is clearly an attempt to circumvent the opening of a criminal investigation,” Walid AlOmari, the broadcaster’s local bureau chief, said.

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The IDF said the unidentified soldier had been using a telescopic device – suggesting he fired the shot from a distance – but had come under fire himself at the moment he fired the shot that killed the journalist Abu Akleh was wearing a helmet and a vest identifying her as a press worker. Video evidence from the scene appeared to suggest the area was quiet in the moments before she was shot.

Protests against the fatal shooting on Abu Akleh have been widespread in the West Bank

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Young ﬁnished his eligibility for military service in 2000 and then joined the police as a volunteer. When he retired from that role he was still keen to ﬁnd something else to do and discovered the Israeli charity Road to Recovery. The organisation was founded in 2005 by an Israeli, Yuval Roth. He had joined the Bereaved Families Circle after his brother was murdered in a terrorist incident and when a Palestinian member of the Circle who was being treated in an Israeli hospital asked for help with transportation Roth realised there was a major need waiting to be met.

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Hundreds of Palestinians are now met at crossing-points such as Erez by volunteer drivers like Cyril Young, who take people to and from medical appointments via a roster drawn up daily by Yuval YoungRoth.has been driving the Palestinians for about 18 months. He says: “Someone on the kibbutz was volunteering for RtoR so I decided to join, too. Mostly I go to Erez, about a 20-minute drive from my home, pick up people and take them where they have to go.

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RtoR drivers are advised not to talk politics with their passengers, but Young says few of them speak Hebrew or English, so conversation is limited. Nevertheless, when he does speak to the older male passengers who have previously worked in Israel “without exception they all long to go back to work in Israel. “All they want is a quiet life, work, go home and be with their family, and it’s evident that their rulers [in Gaza] don’t care about them.” The driving service stops when the border is closed, but resumes as soon as everything calms down. Young, married with ﬁve children and 17 grandchildren, likes most of all his pick-ups from the West Bank. It means he can get home early and back on Alumim can return to his current role as the kibbutz archivist.

“Normally I go to the Jerusalem area and take them to various hospitals, or I take them to the crossing at Kalandia and they go for treatment in places like Ramallah. Or I take people to hospitals in Tel Aviv.” He takes an eight-seat van from the kibbutz and registers each week as to when he is available to drive. The night before each trip, he gets a list from RtoR of people to pick up and where he must take them. He says it’s a low-key role, though it’s unlikely his Palestinian passengers see it that way. “I’m not an ambulance”, he says, “the people I’m taking are going for treatment, so it’s not a question of having to have medical training. The passengers don’t have life-threatening conditions. If there was a medical emergency I would call Magen David Adom, but it hasn’t happened so far.”

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Early morning at the Erez Crossing, the major checkpoint between Israel and the Gaza Strip, and scores of Palestinians are lining up to go through security. Some are going to work in Israel, returning to Gaza every evening. But some – men, women and children – are going to much-needed hospital appointments. And when they see the smiling face of Cyril Young waiting at Erez with his van, the Gazans happily scramble aboard.

Young, a veteran member of Kibbutz Alumim near the Gaza Strip for 50 years, is originally from Walthamstow and was brought up in Ilford. He made aliya with a group from B’nei Akiva to the religious kibbutz, still one of the few which has not been privatised and remaining true to its original socialist principles.

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After the meeting, the two countries inked billions of dollars of agreements in trade, energy and investments. “Turkey is a massive economy,” said Zaga, “and this triangle relationship could bring major results to the region”.

After more than two years of fitful progress, Israel and Turkey have finally agreed to restore full diplomatic relations – four years after Ankara humiliated Israel’s envoy on his way out of the country.

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The development, which observers saw as a matter of when and not if, doesn’t mean that the two regional powers see eyeto-eye on every issue, especially when it comes to the Palestinians. But it does mean that their interests line up on enough important concerns that they intend to pursue a positive bilateral agenda. And they intend to do it in a way that won’t leave the relationship liable to fall apart at the sight of the ﬁrst rift. “This shows the ability of the countries to deal with disagreements, and to create frameworks for the disagreements to be discussed without it ruining the bilateral relationship, as happened in past years,” said Nimrod Goren, president of Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies. This new relationship, combined with Israel’s growing ties with Arab partners, has far-reaching potential for both Jerusalem and Ankara. But it also has the power to redraw alliances across the Middle East, as Turkey attempts to bounce back from years of international isolation.

“Turkey is a frenemy of both Israel and the UAE,” said Moran Zaga, a Haifa University expert on the Gulf. “It is a bu er between countries seen as moderate and countries seen as radical in their politics and foreign policies. The relationship with Turkey determines in many ways regional stability.”

Mohamed Bin Zayed, the UAE’s powerful crown prince at the time, ﬂew out to Turkey in November to meet Erdogan.

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The countries withdrew their ambassadors in 2010 after Israel stormed a blockade-busting ﬂotilla bound for Gaza, setting o a melee that left 10 Turkish nationals dead and a number of Israeli soldiers severely injured. A 2016 rapprochement fell apart two years later when Turkey recalled its ambassador and asked Israel’s to leave to protest Israel’s response to rioting on the Gaza border. Turkish and Israeli leaders criticised each other with Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling Israel a “child-murdering” country and then-premier Benjamin Netanyahu accusing Erdogan of killing Kurdish civilians.

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The murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics must have been a shocking and haunting expe rience for the families whose loved ones were at the mercy of terrorists. In turn it reminds me of my own attendance at the Games, especially the day of the massacre when I witnessed first-hand the authorities racing towards the Olympic Village. I was leaving the area to drive to the airport for my return to London and, as all flights we’re heavily delayed, I watched in horror on the TV screens the events unfold. What amazed me, perhaps na ively, is that there was no consider ation to abandon the Games after such a murderous act, only a short delay and hand wringing with a message that the Olympian ideals must carry on. Stephen Vishnick, Tel Aviv

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Like many in the community, we were left deeply troubled by comments from our new prime minister, Liz Truss. During the leader ship election campaign she used unfounded accusations of antisemitism for political gain. In the wake of such comments, and recent sep arate concerning remarks from Rishi Sunak, the silence of Jewish communal organisations wasAttemptsdisappointing.toconflate ‘woke culture’ with antisemitism were thoroughly disturbing. Seeking to draw this issue into broader culture wars at best cheapens serious efforts to tackle antisemitism, and at worst is dangerous and divisive.Politicians must understand that efforts to tackle racism and antisemitism are shared struggles, and deeply connected. Failing to do so can implicitly indicate a hierarchy of racism, and create divisions between minority groups.

Our new prime minister has spoken with enormous pride of the natural link between “Jewish and Conservative values” and has insisted: “There is no greater friend to the UK than Israel.”

For those who view admiration and kind words for the state of Israel as a vital factor, Truss as foreign secretary did not disap point. Jewish News was present for her first speech in a packed room at the Conservative party’s annual conference in which she name-checked the Jewish state as being among a “network of lib erty” of nations prepared to take on “malign actors.” Such comments naturally won immediate praise from the majority of the British Jewish community, further bolstering her highly promising track record as international trade secretary. That Liz Truss is a friend of Israel, following a succession of friends in Number 10, is beyond doubt. But there are questions too. Her mysterious attack on “woke civil service culture that strays into antisemitism” raised eyebrows well beyond the few commu nity figures who spoke out publicly in response.

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So, one thing is for certain. Our new prime minister still has some way to go to secure the level of support within the commu nity that previous Tory PMs came to enjoy during their terms.

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It was illuminating to read Natan Sharansky’s thoughts on the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev. Of course Gorby’s role in ending the Cold War stands at the very centre of his life’s work, but I will always recall him fondly for his role in allow ing Soviet Jews finally to build new lives in Israel. The oppressive regime Gorbachev’s predecessors oversaw was bound to crumble under the weight of its own injustices, but it can fairly be said – with the benefit of a generation’s worth of hindsight – that Gorbachev speeded up this crucial process. Rest in peace, Gorby. Sam Gallerman, Glasgow

Prime Minister Truss surely realises that to help achieve her ultimate goal in two short years’ time – a mandate to lead from the country rather than merely 180,000 party members – she will have to put in the hard yards to renew the support her party has enjoyed from the Jewish community.

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We all sympathise with Nicola Men delsohn for the apparent antisem itism she suffered at Manchester High School for Girls. Given that fact, it’s somewhat iron ic, perplexing, nay incongruous to learn she serves as vice-president of global business for Meta, a company that has in no small way encouraged and promoted antisemitism that the whole Jewish world has had to suffer. A name change can’t disguise that simple fact. Ben Salamon, N3 Regarding your article on Jewish female footballers inspired by the Lionesses, a player to Include is my fearless goalkeeping daughter Esther Cohen of Liverpool Schools FA under-11s. N Cohen, By email

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Unlike her predecessor, Truss does not have Jeremy Corbyn scaring the life out of the community as Labour leader. Back in May, local election results in areas such as Barnet, and Bury in the north-west, both with sizeable Jewish communi ties, proved that the Tories can no longer take the Jewish vote for granted.Thenext general election could yet see another Conservative victory but the party has taken a severe hit in the polls in recent months under Boris Johnson (latest polling suggests a 12 percent lead for Starmer over the new prime minister) and the community has not been immune.

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oliticians — particularly in America — are often referred to as having a “rabbi”, usually meaning their closest adviser on relations with the Jewish community. I am curious who might fill the role of rabbi to Liz Truss, though judging by her address to the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) in early August, she doesn’t need one. Brought up first in Paisley in Scotland and then Leeds, Truss sits for a Norfolk constituency not remarkable for its high number of Jewish voters. She may have mixed with Jewish friends at school in Leeds and later at Merton College, Oxford, but she seems to have drawn much of her apparent genuine philosemitism from her own observations. Her CFI speech o ers much food for analysis, and my thanks to Bicom’s Toby Greene for highlighting many of the key pointers. Greene says Truss’s mental map of the world pits “decent, honest, sovereign free-trading nations against aggressive authoritarians”. As Foreign Secretary, Truss was an enthusiastic supporter of Israel, even overruling Foreign O ce civil servants on backing Israel in the United Nations. She clearly got on well with Prime Minister Lapid, with whom she co-authored a Daily Telegraph op-ed declaring “Israel and the UK are the closest of friends, and today we become even closer. Together we ensure the future is defined by liberal democracies who believe in freedom and fairness.”Trusstold the CFI Israel was Britain’s greatest ally and Israel had no better or stauncher friend than the UK. She made the right noises about continuing financial support for the fight against antisemitism, though attacking “a woke civil service culture that occasionally strays into antisemitism” was not perhaps her smartest move. Look, she was speaking to CFI as she was running for prime minister. Candidates at hustings, as we all know, will often say pretty much anything to win votes. So telling the CFI that she would be ready to “look at” moving Britain’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was, it seems to me, a populist, shoot-from-the-hip response with no possible basis in reality. What intrigued me more about Truss’s CFI speech was her somewhat overlooked admission that Britain wanted to be more involved in the next phase of the Abraham Accords. It is known – and Truss’s interlocutor Lord Polak pointed out – Britain was not only not at the table when the Accords were hammered out, but not even in the same room. Britain felt, as a long-time mover in the Gulf, it had more to o er and Truss clearly believes Britain was being sidelined and is determined it won’t happen again. And let’s not forget Israel’s pending elections in November, where Lapid, with whom Truss got on so well, risks having his rainbow coalition run over by Benjamin Netanyahu, much more supportive of his “friend” Putin. Will Prime Minister Truss, ardent in her backing for Ukraine, be as enthusiastic a friend of Israel if Bibi makes a comeback? Strikes me if that happens, Mary Elizabeth Truss is going to need a rabbi.

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The range of threats was made horrifyingly clear in the IDF’s Canopy of Fire command centre. We sat in the room where the IDF oversaw its operations with a bank of screens displaying some of the cameras actively looking for suspicious activity. Footage showed everything from neutralised cross-border terror tunnels, UAVs dropping explosives on Israeli military vehicles and even Russian-made anti-tank missiles hitting a civilianHamasbus.may have sat out the most recent round of conﬂict as it continues to rebuild after the events of last year, but it is no less committed to threatening Israel. It was worrying to hear that the group, alongside the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad, is now expanding within the West Bank. This is compounded by the ever-deepening uncertainty over the unpredictable events that will follow the eventual departure of President Abbas. And yet, despite all the unenviable security challenges, Israelis have adapted. The Gaza border area is thriving. We learned that the population of Sderot, a city lined with bomb shelters at every turn, and the wider southern region was one of the fastest growing in the country. At a ﬂower-growing business on the border we saw the determination to make the most of life. The business had borne the brunt of multiple near-fatal rocket strikes, and still it was proud of exporting its geraniums into the Gaza Strip and worldwide. In dealing with these constant threats, it was palpably clear Israelis of all walks of life genuinely value the UK’s friendship. It is no exaggeration to say we are living in a golden era of relations between our two countries, with the UK now considered one of Israel’s most trusted and valued allies. There is an already well-established awareness that both the Conservative leadership candidates were committed to building this relationship further. Israel is excited about the prospect of a free trade deal. Commitments from both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to review the relocation of the British Embassy to Jerusalem and a tough stance on Iran had not gone unnoticed. Despite all the challenges we have seen and heard about this week it was heartening to see Israelis and Palestinians working side by side in everyday life, not least Watergen’s provision of technology to produce fresh drinking water for a Gaza hospital and Save a Child’s Heart children’s hospital in Tel Aviv. Recent progress made on normalising Israel’s relationship with Arab countries through the Abraham Accords is a huge step forward and I hope our new prime minister will look at the role that Britain can play in helping to facilitate similar dialogues across the Middle East.

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Iran looms larger than ever. The new prime minister is under no illusion about the threat posed by the fundamentalist regime in Tehran. She has repeatedly committed to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. The possibility of a renewed JCPOA deal, following exhaustive back and forth negotiations, will certainly be no panacea to this threat. There are growing calls by MPs of all stripes for the UK to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – the mastermind and enabler of Iran’s stable of poisonous terror proxies.This would be a signiﬁcant moment in countering Iran’s hegemonic ambitions. Her choice of foreign secretary, James Cleverly, is welcome. With several years experience as a former Middle East Minister, James is well versed in the issues and ideally placed to drive the bilateral forward. The many pressing issues facing the UK, as well as the wider international community, are signiﬁcant. But there are enormous opportunities on the near horizon. has already the hearts of

A fter a summer of waiting, the UK finally got to meet its new prime minister this week. While the lengthy, heated Conservative leadership contest was marked by big ideological and policy disagreements, there was one area where the candidates agreed throughout. Support for Israel and the UK’s Jewish community was front and centre and proudly celebrated. CFI was delighted to be able to host both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak for memorable husting events with our supporters, and both candidates also penned personal letters to outline their plans to deepen the UK-Israel relationship. Collectively, these ended up reaching thousands of party members and showcased the depth of feeling towards the Jewish state. We send the warmest congratulations to Liz Truss in becoming prime minister. The UK-Israel relationship is currently enjoying a golden era and it is deeply heartening to know that Prime Minister Liz Truss will take this yet further still. Liz Truss enters No10 following a memorable stint in the Foreign O ce where she prioritised strengthening the UK-Israel relationship. From identifying Israel as an integral member of her envisioned “network of liberty” through to leading e orts to challenge – often against the advice of her own o cials –bias against Israel in international forums. She also led the world – in the pages of this newspaper – in condemning Iraq’s Parliament passing deplorable legislation imposing a death penalty on any Iraqi engaging with an Israeli. Liz’s support is clearly valued in Israel. It came up in many of the meetings we had in Israel last week during CFI’s latest parliamentary delegation. Her strong stance towards Iran and her historic campaign pledge to review the location of the British Embassy have achieved cut through.There has been great warmth in the congratulatory messages coming from Israel. Her counterpart Yair Lapid heralded a “true friend of Israel”. The two prime ministers had already struck up a warm friendship while overlapping as foreign ministers, which included the signing of the ground-breaking 10-year strategic plan which will bring the countries ever closer in the fields of cyber and tech. Prime Minister Truss told CFI’s supporters during the leadership contest that she had discussed the location of the British Embassy with Mr Lapid. The prime minister arrives with a full in-tray. At home, great focus will be urgently devoted to tackling high energy prices, steadying the economy and tackling NHS backlogs while on the international stage, challenging President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine will remain a priority, as well as responding to China’s destabilising actions. But there will also be opportunities relating to Israel and the UK’s Jewish community. The starter pistol has been fired on negotiations for a UK-Israel trade deal worth billions of pounds with high hopes that an agreement can be reached within 12-18 months. The anticipated BDS bill is on the legislative agenda. Commitments to continue funding to the CST, combat antisemitism and complete the National Holocaust Memorial have also been made.

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ichal Aviram and Martin Behnka are the screenwriters behind Munich Games, which starts on Sky Atlantic on Friday night. That the release of the six-part series coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Olympics massacre is a gesture of support by the network. Though the historic terrorist attack is not the focus of the spythriller, it was in the minds and hearts of its creators, who were born in its aftermath in 1978. For Israel-born Aviram (the writer behind three series of Fauda), the e ect was signiﬁcant. She grew up hearing about the 11 Israeli athletes and their coaches – aged 18 to 50 – who were killed during a targeted attack by the Palestinian group Black September. “It was traumatic and sad,” she tells JewishNewsthis week, 50 years after the attack on 5 September 1972. But Behnka, who grew up in east Berlin, does not recall any mention of the attack in his early years. It was only later, through self-education, that he learnt whatStill,happened.together they have co-written Munich Games – a six-episode spy thriller that alludes to, but does not focus on, the tragic attack. The series tells the story of Israeli and German agents as they try to protect the Israeli football team from an existential threat after they land in Munich to play a friendly match in 2022. The characters are multi-faceted and complex, from Mossad agent Oren Simon (Yousef Sweid) to German o cer Maria Köhler, who has Lebanese roots (Seyneb Saleh); while lead Israeli football player Abed Masalcha (Shadi Mar’i, recognisable from his role in Fauda) is Muslim. Whilst there are parallels between the ﬁctional storyline and the 1972 tragedy, both writers say the series is intended to distance itself from the past, and ask new questions based on the current climate. “For me, this series is not about what happened in 1972,” says Aviram.

Aviram says it was the award-winning Fauda series that paved the way for a new genre, providing an insight into the security services and Israeli-Palestinian conﬂict.

“Fauda deﬁnitely opened a lot of doors. It invited interest from people around the world to see what is going on in the Middle East, and watch a show made ‘from’ Israel and not ‘about’ Israel.“Itwas also a series that let us use more than one language freely in a show,” adds Aviram, acknowledging that the characters in MunichGamesspeak Hebrew, Arabic, German and English. “Letting people use their own language and not manipulating it so they only speak in one language, helps with the authenticity of the show. Language is everything. It might be more challenging to watch, but it is worth it.” Aviram, who is hoping to co-script a second season of MunichGameswith Behnka, adds: “I really hope people watch the show in the original version, and not dubbed. You will just get so much more out of it.”

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“It is about asking whether it could happen again? Are we processing the past in a way that is helpful or damaging – are we letting things go?” Behnka, who first visited Israel aged 13, nods in agreement. “Traumatic events from the past influence our decisions, paranoia and presumptions. All of the characters in the series su er from prejudice connected to trauma, and act on it. We wanted to explore this.” Though the writers have weaved sex, drama and plot twists into this fast-paced thriller, they have not avoided key political questions, from issues around privacy laws to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A key issue focuses on the balance between individual privacy and national security, with Germany forced to prioritise the former, conditioned by the aftermath of the Holocaust.

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Writers Michal Aviram and Martin Behnka German actress Seyneb Saleh and Arab Israeli actor Yousef Sweid in Munich Games

The murder of 11 Israeli athletes in 1972 is a stain on the Olympics. A new drama asks if it could happen again, writes Sandy Rashty

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The Israeli team at the opening ceremony

“Israel is a democracy, but there is a narrative that people are trying to harm us, and we have to be careful and stay on guard,” says Aviram. “Security is used to protect you as a lawful citizen, but in Germany there is more of a need to keep authorities separate.” Behnka agrees, adding: “We did a lot of research and there is a lot of frustration in Germany, a feeling that the justice system is three steps behind the criminals, a feeling that they have more power than the police.” He adds: “This issue became a big part of the show.” Introduced by the programme’s producer, they had only one meeting before the pandemic struck. For more than a year, Behnka says they became “pen pals”, writing the series remotely and communicating on Zoom and WhatsApp to pull the script together.

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Substantial numbers of Russian immi grants have reportedly returned to Russia after obtaining citizenship and a passport, but the numbers of those who have made Israel their new home remains extremely high regardless.

In a quiet corner of the West Bank settle ment of Neve Daniel, with pastoral views of olive groves and vineyards, lives a young immigrant family, recently arrived and now busy putting down roots.

Meanwhile, the increasing political repres sion in Russia aroused old memories among from the Soviet era when Jews and others were banned from leaving the country.

Some Jews are leaving Ukraine and moving to settlements – fleeing war to live inside one of the longest geopolitical feuds, writes Jeremy Sharon

The Libensons began their aliyah process three years ago, but the COVID-19 pandemic as well as Lea becoming pregnant delayed their move to Israel until they finally received immi gration visas in March this year.

Flights to Israel became heavily oversub scribed following the invasion of Ukraine, and casting a further cloud over the situation is the effort began in July by the Russian Justice Min istry to shut down the local operations of the Jewish Agency, which facilitates aliyah. In light of the mounting problems in Russia, the Yesha Council’s East Europe desk estab lished a group on the encrypted Telegram mes saging service to provide information to those seeking to make aliyah. The Libensons found out about the Telegram group by word of mouth and through it learned about the possibility of moving to a West Bank settlement. Yesha subsequently put them in touch with Esther Fleisher from the Gush Etzion Regional Council, who began discussing options with Eventuallythem.Israel and Lea decided to move to the Neve Daniel settlement, less than 10 miles southeast of Jerusalem, and Fleisher found them an apartment to rent. The Gush Etzion Regional Council paid for the first three weeks

The Libensons have been warmly welcomed and are slowly adapting to life in the new sur roundings, similar to the integration process for many fresh immigrants. But the Libenson family is also part of a major wave of migration to Israel, bound up in what has become one of the most defining events of the 21st century: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Since Moscow launched its offensive some 33,000 people from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus had made aliyah to Israel. Over 12,000 have come from Ukraine itself, almost 20,000 from Russia, and just over 1,000 from Belarus. This flood of immigrants from the region, which occurred in under six months, not only dwarfs pre-COVID numbers but also exceeds total immigration figures for the entirety of most years in the past decade.

Israel and Lea Libenson made aliyah in May with their two sons, Nathan and Yosef Zalman, and Israel’s mother Haya-Rina from a town not far from Moscow. The couple became religiously observant eight years ago and increasingly con templated making aliyah ever since. Now settled in their new home, they speak fervently of the Jewish people’s right to the entire biblically defined land of Israel and quickly dismiss Palestinian aspirations for inde pendence, which the expanding settlements make more difficult.

What distinguishes the Libenson family from the rest of the wave is where they have chosen to begin their new lives as Israelis. They are part of a very small number of immi grants from Eastern Europe who have swapped war-torn Ukraine or politically repressive Russia and Belarus for one of the longest and most complex geopolitical conflicts of modern times, by moving to West Bank settlements.

The Yesha Council, an umbrella organisa tion of settlement municipal authorities in the West Bank, estimates that around 50 immigrant families from Ukraine and Russia have moved to live in the settlements since the start of the war. Despite their small number, these newly minted settlers appear to be deeply ideological.

The head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council Shlomo Neeman, who is also the head of Yesha’s East Europe desk, then decided to send a delegation of volunteers to several countries bordering Ukraine to assist the refugees and provide them with information about moving to the area.

“It is logical that State of Israel will develop its borders to those deﬁned by the Bible,” he continued, adding that he believed the ﬁnal messianic redemption of the Jewish people was near and that the Palestinians would not be able to establish a state before that deliverance.

“The Ukrainian nation was forged many years ago but only got independence 30 years ago. So too the Jewish people was forged thousands of years ago but only regained its independence just over 70 years ago,” he insisted.

After exploring several options, they decided to move to the settlement city of Maale Adumim, just east of Jerusalem, which is the third largest West Bank settlement.

settling the land of Israel, instead of going to a lems many refugees have su ered from. “We noticed that famibombing residential areas and we saw ﬁghter and we decided to ﬂee,” said Olena. “The only proximate cause of their move to Israel was the out of “Zionist convictions.”

The family lived in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, which was a primary target during the first stage of the Russian invasion. Living close to Kharkiv’s city centre, Olena said she and her husband thought initially they could remain in their hometown since the fighting was taking place on the outskirts of the city and they did not believe themselves to be in imminent danger. “When the Russians began bombing residential areas and we saw fighter jets overhead, we realised how close the war was and we decided to flee,” said Olena. “The only place we thought to go was Israel.” Olena and Eduard explained that while the proximate cause of their move to Israel was the Russian invasion, they had been planning to make aliyah for some years and said they did so out of “Zionist convictions.”

The couple say they are now happily ensconced in the settlement and enjoying their new home, noting the warm welcome given to them by the community ever since their arrival.

One refugee family that moved from Ukraine to the West Bank is that of Eduard and Olena German, who made aliya with their three children Ilana, David, and Adael in March this year.

After several days, the couple managed to find a group organising transport out of Kharkiv and after waiting at the assembly point in the freezing Ukrainian winter while exposed to Russian shelling for several hours, Olena, Eduard and their three children boarded a bus bound for Lviv in western Ukraine close to the border with Poland. They then embarked on a 40-hour journey, traveling along minor roads mostly at night to avoid the Russian military, and finally ended up in Lviv.After they waited for six days at the border, Jewish Agency o cials helped them cross the border into Hungary, where they stayed in a hotel in Budapest while they made arrangements for their aliyah. While at the hotel, they saw leaflets placed there by the Yesha delegation and were immediately interested. Dilmoni was in Budapest at the time and sat down with the family to discuss the option of moving to a West Bank settlement.

And he said that they had deliberately moved to a settlement in order to a rm Israel’s control of the“Toregion.usitis clear whom the land belongs to and who should live there. We have come to live here as a political act to strengthen the Jewish presence in the area.”

Members of the Gush Etzion mission also visited hotels where the refugees were staying to hand out leaﬂets and other material advertising the attractions of living in the area.

Asked how they felt about moving from the intense conﬂict zone that has become their former country to the centre of the Israeli-Palestinian conﬂict, the couple were unfazed. “The long-term, permanent war is not only over Judea and Samaria but for the whole of the Land of Israel,” said Eduard, using the biblical terms for the West Bank. He also dismissed comparison between Ukraine as a country whose territory has been occupied and the Palestinians, who wish to establish a state in the Israeli-controlled West Bank and Gaza Strip with a capital in East Jerusalem. Eduard insisted that it is, rather, the Ukrainians and Jews whose national stories parallel each other.

The couple noted that friends of theirs had warned them not to move to the settlements, saying it was dangerous. However, the pair said they had not felt any lack of security since they arrived. But they said that when traveling close to Palestinian population centres in the West Bank they had “felt the hostility of the Palestinians,” though this did not give them pause as to their choice of home. “This [hostility] only increases our motivation to be here and settle this territory and make it part of Israel,” said Israel. “Living here makes us feel we are really fulﬁlling the mitzvah [religious commandment] of settling the land of Israel, instead of going to a city that has already been settled.”

The couple considered some settlements deeper in the West Bank such as Ariel, Shilo or Ofra, but eventually decided on Maale Adumim due its proximity to Jerusalem.

He said that at the beginning of the war, the organisation — like several others — began connecting Ukrainian Jews to transport operators who were taking refugees westwards away from the fighting, and says they helped thousands of people flee the war zone. Yesha subsequently sent an aid consignment to Moldova to assist Jewish refugees who had fled there and also dispatched a delegation of Russian-speaking social workers to provide them with assistance for trauma-related problems many refugees have su ered from. in Ukraine [due to an exit ban for men of military age]. These families and children had experienced severe trauma but were not receiving any mental health support,” said Dilmoni. “We wanted to see how we could help on issues that were not being addressed by others,” he said.

find a group organising transport out of Kharkiv to Russian shelling for several hours, Olena, Eduard and their three children boarded a bus border with Poland. traveling along minor roads mostly at night to avoid the Russian military, and finally ended up Lviv.After they waited for six days at the border, Hungary, hotel in Budapest while they made arrangesaw leaflets placed there by the Yesha delegation and were immediately interested. down with the family to discuss the option of moving to a West Bank settlement. moving to a settlement, but after hearing about nator of Yesha’s Eastern European desk, Elisha Henkin, who was also in Budapest at the time. the northern city of Nof Hagalil and began exploring. The couple considered some settleas The Libenson family outside their new home in the settlement of Neve Daniel

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Olena said the couple never thought of moving to a settlement, but after hearing about it from Dilmoni they consulted with the coordinator of Yesha’s Eastern European desk, Elisha Henkin, who was also in Budapest at the time.

The number of immigrants from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus moving to the settlements is exceedingly small compared to the total number of immigrants from the region, but the Yesha Council has made and is continuing to make concerted e orts to attract Jews from these countries to move to the West Bank.

Although the inﬂux of immigrants from Ukraine is thought to now be slowing, the severe political repression in Russia and the echoes of the past it evokes for Jews in that country means the tide of Russian immigrants is unlikely to abate any time soon. Yesha’s East Europe desk is now primed to help them move to the West EstablishedBank.in 2020 with the goal of assisting Jews from the former Soviet Union who had already moved to the settlements, the desk took on the task of helping Ukrainian Jews ﬂee following the Russian invasion, said Yesha Council director Yigal Dilmoni.

The Germans’ ﬂight from the Russian invasion is typical of many Ukrainian refugees living in the country’s east, but no less harrowing for that. “Before 24 February no one thought the Russians would attack, but that morning we woke up to the sound of explosions,” said Olena.

Jewish News 31www.jewishnews.co.uk 8 September 2022 JN LIFE of rent while the family got itself established. “This is a natural destination for Jews. It comes from our hearts and souls,” said Lea. The couple noted that in their hometown, there was a very comfortable framework of communal Jewish life, with a synagogue, yeshiva, strong communal life and frequent events. “We always knew, though, that the future of the Jewish people is in Israel, especially for children to grow up in a Jewish environment. Only here can they do that and can walk around freely with a kippah,” said Israel. “No amount of comfort is equal to the value of settling the land.” They emphasised how warmly they were welcomed by Neve Daniel residents and said that they had been inundated with o ers of help as they got used to their new home. Asked about how they felt about moving to a bitterly contested territory that another people seeks as its own homeland, the couple were deﬁant. “The Palestinians won’t get a state here,” Israel ﬂatly declared.

On arriving in Israel, they were taken to the northern city of Nof Hagalil and began exploring.

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gourmet vegan sweet brand founded by two Jewish entrepreneurs has launched in online supermarket Ocado, its first major grocery listing. Tasty Mates was founded by friends Joe Woolf and Nick Sunshine, who wanted to “portray their mates in sweets”. The gelatine-free range of gummies (think jelly babies meet jelly beans) comprises four unique flavours: The Perfect Pear (pear crumble), The Salty One (salted caramel), The Berry Funny One (very berry) and The Juicy Peach (peaches and cream). Woolf, 26, explains: “I have a really sweet tooth and felt that there was a gap for a gourmet jelly sweet that didn’t leave a really sugary white coating in your mouth after you eat it. Candy Kittens really opened the market – before then, if you gourmetpavedsweetsendsomethingwantedhighqualityyouwerelookingathigh-own-brandlikeHarrods.“CandyKittensthewayforsweetsbutIwantedtomakeagourmetversionofjellybabiesbutwiththeflavourprofilesofjellybeanswithlotsofdierentflavours.Ialsowantedtohavethe‘relatabilityside’ofsweets,akindofmodern-dayLoveHearts.”

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On the Ocado partnership, he says: “We are delighted to have teamed up with Ocado. It opens a big door for us to be on people’s weekly shops but you can’t just rely on one thing. Ocado is amazing and we are so excited about it but there are so many places we want to be – we want to be on everyone’s radar.” Woolf and Sunshine are now working on a gifting range with more exciting plans in the pipeline. “We want to have ﬂavours representing everyone’s personality traits eventually and build a brand that the whole country can access in every shop they go into.” They will just need to make sure all the samples are left with Sunshine. “If they were left at my place they would all be eaten!” Woolf jokes.  www.tastymates.co.uk

really wanted sweets like Harrods. “Candy Kittens paved the way for gourmet sweets but I wanted to make a gourmet version of jelly babies but with the flavour profiles of jelly beans with lots of di erent flavours. I also wanted to have the ‘relatability side’ of sweets, a kind of modern-day Love Joe Woolf and Nick Sunshine A selection from the range, which portrays the founders’ mates in sweets

Woolf, a former JFS deputy head boy, decided to pick the brains of his friend Nick Sunshine, who was running his own web development design and branding agency at the time, while Woolf had a job in public relations. Woolf had previously been the Mazkir (national director) of FZY following a longstanding a liation with the youth movement. The duo knew each other through UJS. “Nick said the brand had legs so the two of us spent the best part of a year working with developers to try and get the recipes right,” Woolf says. “It started with us buying loads of sweets and identifying the common ingredients. It was a mess but we knew what we wanted for our three main goals: to be the tastiest relatable gourmet vegan gummy sweet, to not have a negative impact on the environment, and to promote meaningful moments between mates.” In January 2020, Woolf and Sunshine, 32, decided to commit to the business full-time, not long before Covid. “This actually played to our advantage,” explains Woolf. “It gave us a year to take a step back, build the brand and get everything in place.” They also managed to secure their ﬁrst major listing, with WH Smith. “We spent so much time networking through LinkedIn, speaking to people and sending samples. It’s about having a good proposition, networking and making sure people enjoy the product. I was learning all the time on the job, constantly typing business acronyms into Google that I hadn’t come across.” Tasty Mates launched with WH Smith in February 2021 and the brand is also now stocked in a variety of places including Daylesford Organic, Holland and Barrett online and The Vegan Kind Supermarket. So why vegan? “First and foremost, I wanted my mates, who don’t eat gelatine, to be able to eat what I made. And you don’t need to eat beef gelatine when eating sweets.” But of course, the timing is fortuitous. The market for vegan products is exploding – as is the demand for vegan confectionery. Hancocks, the UK’s leading confectionery wholesaler, has expanded its vegan product range with several new options with sweets from brands such as Bubs, Kingsway, and businessveganVegconomist.comSwizzels.saysthechocolateconfectioneryindustryisexpectedtobeworth$1.3bn(about£1.1bn)by2027,withacompoundannualgrowthrateof15.84percent.“Themarketismassiveandtheenvironmentalsideofthe–withveganproductsbeingbetterfortheenviron-ment–wasreallyimportanttous,”saysWoolf.

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This is the next stage in the age-old nature versus nuture debate. Are our deepest characteristics and abilities present at birth, or are they formed by our experiences in the world? It is accepted that part of who we are comes from genes, which contain instructions to build our body and wire our brain. But we also know that the culture we grow up in can shape us in fundamental ways. In this weeks parsha, Ki Tetzei, it appears that the Torah is unequivocal in its view on this question: “Fathers shall not be put to death because of children, and children shall not be put to death because of fathers; a person should be put to death for their own sin.” In other words, each individual is judged according to his or her actions, and we disregard the impact of upbringing. The Gemara even teaches that a person may be born with certain inherent traits, but the choice of how we channel them remains ﬁrmly in our hands. However, several commentaries point out an apparent contradiction based on a verse in Shemot that speaks of visiting the sins of the fathers upon future generations. In addition, in last week’s sedra, as the Jewish people prepare to enter the Land of Israel, Moses warns them not to adopt any of the peculiar practices of its inhabitants that run contrary to the Torah. So, it seems that we do consider environmental factors as contributing to a person’s behaviour. How do we reconcile this when it suggests that we are held accountable for other people’s past mistakes?

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The Torah Temimah explains that only if we perpetuate negative behaviour that we have previously observed is it considered to be ours as well, but if we distance ourselves from it then we are not destined to be a victim of it. As we prepare to stand in judgment on Rosh Hashanah, we have to accept responsibility for the choices that we have freely made, and we have to acknowledge that we determine the course of our life – whether that be in success or in failure. We are not just the products of our genes or our environment and upbringing; ultimately we are held accountable for our actions. thought-provoking series, rabbis, rebbetzins and educators relate the RABBI ALEX CHAPPER

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