Bibi talks with King Abdullah

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday, marking his first o cial diplomatic meeting abroad with a foreign leader since the taking o ce last month, writes Jotam Confino.

The two men in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

A press release from Netanyahu’s o ce said: “The two leaders discussed regional issues, especially strategic, security and economic cooperation between Israel and Jordan, which contributes to regional stability.

agreement between Jordan and Israel from 1967, Jordan remained the holy custodian of the site, with Jews allowed to visit but not pray there.

While Ben-Gvir was technically not violating the status quo, his frequent calls for Jews to be allowed to pray at the site has provoked Muslim countries.

The relationship between King Abdullah II and Netanyahu has deteriorated in recent years, especially owing to repeated clashed between Israeli security forces and Palestinians on Temple Mount.

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Van der Zyl also revealed at the meeting that she was planning to meet President Herzog in Brussels later this week, making it the third such encounter this month.

“They also praised the long-standing friendship and partnership between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom.”

Tensions between Israel and Jordan ran high earlier this month after national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited Temple Mount, causing widespread condemnation in Muslim countries, including Jordan.

According to a status-quo

King Abdullah also warned Netanyahu in 2020 about his calls for West Bank annexation, saying it could lead to a “lead to a massive conflict”.

Likud Party MK Danny Danon is expected to bring forward a bill in the Knesset that will lead to the Jordan Valley being annexed, something that could trigger another diplomatic between Israel and its neighbour.

Survivor Joan Salter delivered a powerful testimony at the main service ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, detailing the traumatic impact the Nazi invasion had on her childhood, writes Lee Harpin.

Giving a detailed account of her early years – moving from Brussels, to Paris, to Spain and then being fostered by a family in America – Salter told the audience at the annual City Hall event: “I was an ordinary person whose life was forever impacted by the Holocaust. While the Holocaust is part of me, it does not define me.”

Salter, who earlier this month was deeply critical of home secretary Suella Braverman’s use of language when discussing migrants attempting to reach the UK, recalled how she was eventually reunited in this country with her Polish-born parents, who survived the war, in 1947.

She has subsequently gone on to be one of the most eloquent speakers on the impact of the Shoah, touring schools, universities and other institutions to provide full and frank accounts of the impact of the Nazis on lives such as hers and her family’s.

She said: “In between that scared little girl arriving at Croydon airport and today, much has changed but the task has not. We owe it to future generations to educate.”

Salter, who has travelled the

Monday’s ceremony in a new Royal Docks location had been organised with the held of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) and the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) with the theme Ordinary People the horrors of the past and call out antisemitism and hatred wherever we see it.”

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan also delivered a defiant speech, tackling the rise in antisemitic hate. Khan said: “As long as I am mayor, City Hall will always be at the vanguard of the struggle against antisemitism, racism and prejudice in all its ugly forms.” sight of all is standing on Waterloo Bridge, world as a renowned speaker, added that for her today “the most wonderful sight of all is standing on Waterloo Bridge, with the view of St Paul’s Cathedral and the Houses of Parliament. tackling the rise in antise“As long as I am vanguard struggle antisemitism, and “As the number of Holocaust sur-

“This city is my home, this country is my refuge, this King my head of state,” she said.

HET chief executive Karen Pollock said: “As the number of Holocaust survivors among us dwindles, we must seize all opportunities to hear their voices and to remember their testimonies, so that we might learn from

Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, the Board of Deputies has delivered more than 150 of its Legacy Boards to synagogues, Jewish secondary schools, youth groups and communal organisations all over the UK.

The Legacy Boards are intended to serve as a continuing reminder to present and future generations.

In conjunction with the chief rabbi and major synagogue and communal organisations around the country, the board, through its Yom HaShoah UK Legacy committee, launched the UK Jewish Community’s Legacy from the Holocaust project in 2022.

This asks the Jewish community to make three pledges: To Remember – Zachor, To Tell –Haggadah and To Life – L’Chaim.

The Legacy Boards are intended to be displayed prominently by each recipient as a vis-

HMDT chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman said: “We owe it to those who were murdered, and those who survived, and even future generations, to keep the memory of the Holocaust and genocide alive. We also owe it to ourselves to keep the memory alive – our humanity is diminished when we allow prejudice to take root.” Equally poignant was a speech by Rwandan genocide survivor Antoinette Mutabaz.

Two HET ambassadors, Simran Shinji and Jasraj Singh, read a statement of commitment to continuing Holocaust education. In it they pledged that “future generations should understand the causes of the Holocaust and its consequences”.

Rabbi Epstein and Rebbetzin Ileana Epstein of the Western Marble Arch synagogue appeared on stage for a recital of the El Maleh Rachamim memorial prayer.

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