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VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS As revelations go, it’s hardly Watergate. After six months of undercover filming, the world now knows the Israeli Embassy in London works to promote Israel in the UK; those with sympathy for Israel are not the biggest fans of an NUS president who speaks of a “Zionist-led media” and proIsrael groups have extensive contacts with the Israeli Embassy. Presumably future episodes of Al Jazeera’s undercover report The Lobby will reveal [with a suitably sinister soundtrack], that the Israeli ambassador enjoys Tony Page kosher meals at Board of Deputies dinners. Cards on the table: members of the Jewish News editorial team speak regularly to the Embassy, have visited the country and share many of its fears and concerns – but that doesn’t mean our criticism of the Labour leader Jeremy Continued on page 10

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Above: The Israeli Embassy’s Shai Masot gives “secret” tips on setting up a lobby group; Labour Friends Of Israel chair Joan Ryan is filmed being told how to define anti-Semitism; “pro-Israel activist” Michael Rubin lets slip that providing alcohol gets people to turn up to an event.

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TV sting claims UK campuses ‘infiltrated by Israel lobby’ Jewish student leaders have hit back at “insidious” suggestions that they take direction from Israel, after an undercover sting operation by news group Al Jazeera portrayed Jewish activists as Israeli puppets. Josh Nagli, campaigns manager for the Union of Jewish Students, said “there is no plot” after a documentary – called ‘The Lobby – aired on Wednesday night, claiming Jewish students are involved in “Israel’s clandestine activities in London”. In the first of four 30-minute documentaries Adam Schapira, a UJS presidential candidate, is heard saying the Israeli Embassy funds the Jewish union’s activities. Elsewhere, Richard Brooks, vice president of the National Union of Students (NUS), is heard saying he held “secret purpose meetings” with Nagli’s UJS predecessor Russell Langer, now public affairs manager at the Jewish Leadership Council. Brooks said they “planned how to get good people… elected to certain places”. Brooks, who recently went to Israel with UJS, tweeted: “Never met anyone from Israeli gov’t, not part of any conspiracy,” adding that he did not see eye-to-eye with NUS president Malia

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Bouatta. “It’s not a shock or an exposé that I politically organise against what I think to be an ineffectual and damaging presidency,” he said. He was joined in indignation by Nagli, who wrote: “The insidious suggestion that Jewish students, or Jews in Britain more broadly, slavishly support specific government policies or actions, conspire with or direction from Israeli officials, is grossly offensive.” Jewish students at Oxford University also reacted angrily after the documentary suggested “no evidence” of anti-Semitism at the university’s Labour Club (OULC), which formed the subject of an inquiry by Baroness Royall after a co-chair resigned last year saying members had “some kind of problem with Jews”. In a statement, Oxford’s Jewish Society said Al Jazeera’s video was “another disgusting attempt to silence

OBAMA BREAKS SILENCE ON UN Barack Obama has defended his record on Israel and argued that the recent UN resolution denouncing Jewish settlements in the West Bank was important to “send a signal”. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 2, the outgoing US president said America’s refusal to veto the motion declaring settlements “a flagrant violation of international law” was the “best move” for peace. In the UK, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also defended Britain’s decision to support the UN resolution, arguing they were “by no means conducive to peace… that is why we resolved as

Irish college has ‘not approved’ conference The Irish university reported to be hosting an academic conference on the legality of the state of Israel in April has this week said it is yet to decide whether to do so. Last week, University College Cork (UCC) was cited as the alternative venue to an event derided as “one-sided” by cabinet ministers and

Screenshots from Al Jazeera’s The Lobby include those of Shai Masot, above

the victims of racist abuse… Baroness Royall found that anti-Semitic incidents did occur. This was excluded from the Al-Jazeera report.” The latest furore surrounds the UK activities of Shai Masot, who worked through the Israeli Embassy in London, and who has now returned to Israel. He described himself as a senior political adviser, said he helped establish “independent” pro-Israel groups, and spoke of “taking down” MPs supportive of Palestinian rights, including Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alan Duncan. Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev was forced to apologise for Masot’s comments, a spokesman calling them

we did”. He added that the UK only voted for the resolution because it contained wording condemning “the infamy of terrorism Israel suffered every day”. Johnson also paid tribute to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s keynote speech on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict on 28 December, saying: “It is a widespread view in Washington, and across the UN Security Council, that settlements are illegal, which was why the resolution went through as it did, without any opposition”. In the interview, Obama said his and Kerry’s warnings about settlement expansion had been “ignored” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and reminded Israeli viewers that traditional Zionist values include treating people fairly and equally. “It breaks my heart that the prospects for peace are fading away,” he said.

Jewish representatives, who last year welcomed news that Southampton University had decided to cancel the conference, which it had originally planned to host. A UCC statement read: “University College Cork became aware, through external correspondence, of a proposal to hold a conference entitled ‘International Law and the State of Israel’ on the campus... Management has issued no approval for the event... and will determine its position following appropriate consideration.”

“unacceptable,” but Tory chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Crispin Blunt said it was “outrageous”. The Foreign Office said in a statement that it considers the matter closed after Regev’s apology to Duncan. In the video, Masot is shown linked to the parliamentary lobby groups Conservative Friends of Israel and Labour Friends of Israel, as well as Bicom, Sussex Friends of Israel, Conservative Future, Young Fabians and We Believe in Israel. Also featured is Michael Rubin, parliamentary affairs and research manager for Labour Friends of Israel, who Masot suggests the undercover reporter contact to organise a pro-Israel group.

The Labour Party has called on the government to launch an investigation into “improper interference” by Israel in British politics in the wake of the Al Jazeera sting. Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry said: “The exposure of an Israeli Embassy official discussing how to bring down or discredit a government minister and other MPs because of their views on the Middle East is extremely disturbing. “Improper interference in our democratic politics by other states is unacceptable whichever country is involved. “It is simply not good enough for the Foreign Office to say the matter is closed. This is a national security issue. The government should launch an immediate inquiry.”

Sick anti-Semitism on site Al Jazeera has failed to remove a barrage of anti-Semitism and even online incitement to violence that followed its investigation into London’s Israeli Embassy. The broadcaster was yesterday alerted by Jewish News to the racist postings that include conspiracy theories about Israel and 9/11, vile references to the Holocaust and claims Israel controls US and UK politics. The comments – which contravene the broadcaster’s own rules – were among 230 posts under an online article about the six-month sting in which an One of the messages of abuse on Al Jazeera’s site Israeli Embassy employee was filmed talking about ‘taking down’ foreign minister back to his/her pig farm in Europe.” Alan Duncan. Many comments have been online for One user said the ‘British turn to warm up more than three days despite its site commuthe gas chambers again”, while another wrote “a nity rules state “racist, sexist, homophobic good K yke is a gassed K yke [sic]”. A further read- or otherwise offensive will not be tolerated. er added: “And your point, Jew boy? I remember There is a difference between criticising a my gran pappy telling me how he used to cut the government, organisation or belief and atnoses off Kykes before kicking them into the tacking people because of their race, gender, ovens. I love my gran pappy very much [sic].” sexual orientation or religion”. There was even an example of incitement A Community Security Trust spokesman to violence in the string. “Kill and burn any said: “It is no surprise that a programme like Israeli or Israeli supporter along with their this will excite Jew haters and conspiracy families. Any Israeli pig left should be sent fantasists.”

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Israeli Embassy recordings / News

Man behind the scam This is the man who spent six months undercover for a sting that aimed to expose “attempts by the Israeli government to influence British democracy” – but his true identity remains hidden, four days after the story broke, writes Justin Cohen. The reporter, posing as a pro-Israel Labour activist by the adopted name ‘Robin Harrow’, first made contact with Shai Masot, then assistant to deputy ambassador Eitan Na’eh, last summer. He subsequently spent a considerable amount of time with him, even accompanying him to a Jewish Labour Movement meeting between Ambassador Mark Regev and a group of young Israeli Labor leaders, and social gatherings such as the one where he made his much-reported remarks about ‘taking down’ Alan Duncan. ‘Harrow’ set up a fake Twitter account promoting pro-Israel messages and a blog on the Times of Israel, with a bio describing himself as German-born and having taken part in Israel exchange programmes in school. He also professed his fascination with the strength of Israeli society “to live under such circumstances and continue to grant civil rights to all citizens”. In one in which he lauds the treatment of LGBT people compared to other parts of the Middle East, he wrote that those calling themselves anti-Zionist are “effec-

Al Jazeera mole ‘Robin Harrow’

tively saying Israel should not exist”. He added: “If the Labour Party loses its path, leaves the progressive camp and sanctions terrorist groups like Hamas, we lose more than legitimacy and electability in the minds of the electorate. The Labour Party will lose its soul and open the door to a new wave of anti-Semitism.” At around the time he disappeared off the radar, he requested both posts he wrote on the platform be removed, saying his new employer did not want him to write. It is understood various communal organisations were contacted with questions about their links to Israel and the

embassy from an anonymous email address. A source close to one of those organisations said: “While this country has a fine tradition of investigative journalism, in this case Al Jazeera’s employee appears to have overstepped the mark, behaving unethically and used the cloak of anonymity to seek footage that can be presented out of its original context to incite venom and hatred against Israel’s supporters in the UK. “Despite spending six months compiling his undercover footage, individuals and organisations targeted were given a shockingly short amount of time to respond to anonymised emails over the holiday period.” Questions have also been raised over his tactics during the investigation. Jewish News understands that at least one organisation targeted by ‘Harrow’ is considering a formal legal complaint related to the reporter’s “unacceptable” behaviour towards a female activist. The sting began shortly after the height of the anti-Semitism row surrounding Labour and the timing has raised questions about whether the investigation was designed to undermine those raising concerns about cases within the party. Jackie Walker, who was twice suspended from the party, appears in an advert for the Al Jazeera series, calling for an investigation.

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OXFORD UNION: SAY SORRY MALIA, OR GO Oxford University’s Students Union has called on national student leader Malia Bouattia to resign if she will not issue a “full and formal apology” to Jewish students offended by her past statements. In the stunning rebuke to students’ national representatives, the esteemed union also criticised Oxford dons for a lack of action in response to allegations of anti-Semitism from within the University’s own Labour Club (OULC). Pressure had mounted at the establishment after criticism from politicians in the Home Affairs Select Committee and from education chiefs at Universities UK, following an inquiry carried out by Baroness Royall. The peer looked into allegations of anti-Semitism in the Oxford University Labour Club shortly after it voted to support

a campaign to boycott Israel, when a co-chair resigned, alleging the club had “some kind of problem with Jews”. Her full report was withheld, however, prompting accusations of a cover-up by the Labour Party. In the statement this week, Oxford University Students’ Union (OUSU) said: “We cannot ignore or dismiss the hurt and anger caused by statements made by Malia Bouattia. We echo calls from Jewish students for a full and formal apology for her language and comments, condemn the lack of apology thus far, and agree that if no apology is made, the appropriate course of action would be resignation. The union noted “the allegations of anti- Semitism within OULC, and the disappointment felt over the inadequate response from the university.”

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‘He drove backwards to crush as many people as he could’ Community leaders have expressed outrage after a Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem, killing four and wounding 15 others. Security camera footage showed the lorry driving at high speed off the road and into the crowd of people in the Armon Hanatziv neighbourhood. The truck is seen reversing quickly, apparently trying to crush more people, before the driver was shot dead. “There was no sense in that reverse,” witness Leah Schreiber told reporters. “He drove backwards to crush more people. That was really clear.” Haim Neuman, a tour guide who was at the scene, said the terrorist drove over the soldiers a number of times to kill as many as possible. He said: “Suddenly the truck came with great speed and rammed into the group. Civilians and soldiers began shooting and this prevented a worse tragedy. He rammed them a number of times, going into reverse and forward, in order to hurt more people.” Sir Mick Davis, chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, offered condolences to the families and outlined how terrorists target any Israelis, whether civilian or military. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured and the families of those who lost their lives in this brutal attack in Jerusalem,” he said. “Tragically we have seen so much terror these past months and years, and it should be clear to all that to terrorists there is no difference between soldiers and civilians, men and women or adults and children. Their only goal is to spread terror and cause human tragedy.” He added: “For this to happen in Jerusalem, so close to the Old City, is a particular reminder of the dangers Israelis are exposed to day in, day out. None of us should have to face the constant threat of terrorism and we condemn those who support and celebrate acts of terrorism of this nature.” Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood MP said: “I condemn the horrific terrorist attack. My thoughts are with the victims and their families. There can be absolutely no justification for terrorism.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-

yahu said the driver was a supporter of the Islamic State group, and suggested the attack was inspired by similar assaults in Europe. “We know the identity of the attacker. According to all the signs, he was a supporter of Islamic State (IS),” he said at the attack site. “We know there is a sequence of terror attacks. There definitely could be a connection between them, from France to Berlin and now Jerusalem.” While Israel has arrested several Palestinians accused of travelling to Syria to fight with the group, IS is not known to have a presence in Israel or the Palestinian areas. Israel has said two gunmen who carried out a deadly shooting in Tel Aviv last June were inspired by IS, but not members. Netanyahu said Israel had blockaded Jabel Mukaber, the nearby Palestinian neighbourhood in east Jerusalem where the attacker lived and that Israel was planning other steps, but did not elaborate. He added that the dead were all soldiers. Israel’s national rescue service said one of the 15 wounded was in a serious condition. The attack matched the deadliest in a more than year-long wave of Palestinian shooting, stabbing and vehicle attacks against Israelis. The two gunmen in last June’s attack in Tel Aviv also killed four people at a popular tourist spot. The atmosphere has been charged following the manslaughter conviction last week of an Israeli soldier who fatally shot a Palestinian

Above: Mourners at the funeral of Yael Yekutiel on Monday. Inset: The four victims of the Jerusalem lorry attack – Yael Yekutiel, 20, Shir Hajaj, 22, Shira Tzur, 20, and Erez Orbach, 20

attacker already badly wounded and lying on the ground. Eytan Rund, a tour guide who shot Sunday’s attacker, said the many soldiers in the area were slow to respond and believed the “hesitation” was connected to last week’s verdict. Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Qanou called the attack a “heroic” act and encouraged other Palestinians to do the same and “escalate the resistance”. He added the attack proved the wave of Palestinian violence has not ended, despite a recent lull.

Heroic tour guide speaks of shooting truck terrorist Eytan Rund was sent flying when the truck drove into the group of soldiers as they disembarked in Jerusalem’s Old Town, killing four. While injured, he approached the cabin and shot the driver as he sought to reverse over the group lying injured. Rund, an army reservist, initially criticised the response of Israeli soldiers for not immediately shooting

the driver, saying: “It’s not easy for me to say, but there could have been a lot fewer wounded.” He later clarified his remarks, after IDF bosses contradicted him, saying soldiers did in fact shoot the assailant. In a video, he said: “I shot my entire clip at him. Together with me, there were a few other brave soldiers shooting.

“To tell you the truth, I really don’t feel very brave; I did what everyone else would have done. “I just feel grateful that I am alive and well and can read my kids a bedtime story, rather than have them attend my funeral. “If I had been standing 10 inches in another direction, I wouldn’t be here today. I appreciate all those who have sent me such kind

Hero: Eytan shot the lorry terrorist

messages of support.” British Emunah director Deborah Nathan this week said Rund

had been the guide for her 18-yearold daughter Eliana on trips organised by the Midreshet Torat Chessed Seminary, which is based in the Emunah Bet Elazraki Children’s Home in Netanya. “Eytan has guided many British gap year programmes,” she said. “He is an absolutely lovely guy, more usually found playing guitar and singing to the students he is guiding.” The charity’s supporters were joined in sadness this week, however, with news that Israel Emunah employees Keren Orbach and Iris Zangy lost their son and nephew Erez Orbach in the attack.

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Hate crimes/ Berlin tribute / News

Revealed: Shomrim antiSemitism arrests in 2016 Stamford Hill neighbourhood watch group Shomrim helped make one arrest every three days during 2016, with 19 being for “anti-Semitic crimes,” according to figures released in an annual report. Among the alleged crimes were burglary, assault, drink driving, indecent exposure and illegal possession of a firearm, while other suspects were alleged to have perpetrated racially-aggravated abuse and

harassment of Orthodox Jews. “Our work resulted in 19 suspects being arrested by police for anti-Semitic crimes, many of whom were charged and have court dates pending,” said the group. “It also saw eight anti-Semites successfully prosecuted and convicted for antiSemitic crimes, which is considered a very high number of convictions for anti-Semitism, given that in 2015 there were only 12

GERMAN SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAELI TERROR VICTIMS The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag on Monday to show solidarity with victims of the Jerusalem truck terror attack, in which four people were killed. Once seen as an icon of Nazism [see inset], the landmark in the heart of the German capital has also been illuminated in Turkish and French colours to express support after terror atrocities. Graphic showing types of alleged offences Shomrim helped police with

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News / United Nations demo / Charity grant / News-in-brief

Westminister protest against UN resolution Crowds gathered in Westminster on Sunday to ask why the British government supported the recent UN Security Council resolution proclaiming Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank illegal, writes Rebecca Pinnington. Speakers at the protest, organised by the Zionist Federation, said the vote was further evidence of United Nations’ anti-Israel “bias”. It was approved just days after former UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon admitted the number of resolutions targeting Israel was “disproportionate”, owing to “decades of political manoeuvring”. Board of Deputies president Jonathan Arkush said the UN has passed 223 resolutions against Israel, but only eight against war-torn Syria. He added: “This resolution succeeded in passing in an act of spite by a lame duck United

The protest against the UN Security Council resolution

States administration whose Middle Eastern policy has been a disaster for America and for the world. I want to know, our community wants to know how on earth did a UK government come to vote for it.” Jewish Leadership Council chief executive Simon Johnson said: “The United Nations has given a nod and a wink to the

Palestinians that whenever they feel they want to put some pressure on Israel, all they need to do is turn to their friends in the UN Security Council, or in UNESCO, or in the UN Human Rights Council, and a biased anti-Israel resolution will appear.” Protesters responded with applause and cries of “shame” as speakers discussed the UK’s

vote against its ally. Journalist Douglas Murray said support for UNSC 2334 was “a bad and embarrassing blot on diplomacy”. “Friends do not kick friends in the back,” he added. In a message read out by protest organiser Arieh Miller, UN Watch director Hillel Neuer questioned British UN ambassador Matthew Rycroft’s claim of having worked to secure a “balanced text” and said the resolution sent a message to Palestinians that it would be easier to rely on antiIsrael resolutions than to negotiate peace terms. Retired British army officer Colonel Richard Kemp said a “senior Foreign Office official” had told him: “They know these settlements are not illegal. The reason they say they are is to put pressure on Israel. That is duplicitous, dishonest and disgraceful.”

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Migration survey / Campus awards / News NEWS IN BRIEF

TROLL ADMITS TO MP BERGER THREATS An internet troll who made antiSemitic death threats to a Labour MP has admitted further charges after sending abusive messages on Twitter. John Nimmo, 28, from South Shields, sent two emails to Luciana Berger [pictured] where he said she would “get it like Jo Cox” and “watch your back Jewish scum”. The second message to the MP for Liverpool Wavertree included a picture of a large knife and came just three weeks after MP Jo Cox was killed. In a separate incident he has also admitted sending offensive emails to an anti-hate crime organisation including threatening to blow up a mosque. Newcastle Crown Court heard the three further charges related to tweets he sent that included messaging someone saying “watch your back you Jewish inbred you’re dead meat, National Action”. Berger, said the messages had caused her “great fear and anguish”.

REPORT: ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ MIGRATION FROM FRANCE Researchers have rejected said the author. the idea of a “Jewish Staetsky said the diverexodus” from most of gence with Britain was Europe, but noted “unprec“decisive”, with French, edented” levels of migraItalian and Belgian Jews tion from France, Italy and now six times more likely to Belgium. make aliyah than they have The report, published for the past 40 years. this week by the Institute Elsewhere in Europe, of Jewish Policy Research Jews from Germany, Aus(JPR), compares migratria and Sweden have, like tion patterns of European British Jews, been far less Jews over the past 70 years. likely to migrate to Israel. Comparisons between the In analysing the cause UK and France showed of migration, researchers that while both countries decry the “seemingly experienced peaks after Record numbers of French Jews have made aliyah endless stream of sur1948 (the founding of the veys of anti-Semitic state of Israel) and 1967 (the Six Day War), France saw attitudes in Europe and debate about its biggest ever spike yet in the past few years, whereas the meaning”, arguing that this hinders the benchby contrast Jewish migration from the UK has remained marking process. historically low. All too often, observers are ready to announce “an “Migration from France rose to unprecedented levels exodus”, they say, whereas this can be far from the truth. surpassing all levels observed in the past, including the While reasons for Jewish migration are numerous, record levels of 1948 and the late 1960s,” says author prospects of work play a huge role. Daniel Staetsky. “There has been no development of “Times of high unemployment in the UK correspond this kind in migration from the UK.” In terms of levels to times of high migration of British Jews to Israel,” of anti-Semitism and levels of Jewish migration, the says Staetsky. UK and France are now poles apart, he explained. “Further, times of high unemployment in Israel The number of Jews making aliyah from Italy and correspond to times of low migration of British Jews Belgium more closely resemble the peak seen in France, there. Data for France reveals the same correlation.”

Students praised for uni activism British Jewish students have scooped a host of accolades from their peers around the world after being honoured for campus activism as well as campaigns on mental health and interfaith work. Among the students celebrated was Birmingham theology student Izzy Lenga, who was named Political Activist of the Year by the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS), which is currently headed by London-born Yosef Tashish. “There was no doubt in the minds of the judges how much she deserved it for her work calling out and challenging anti-Semitism in the NationalUnionofStudentsandthewiderstudent movement,” he said, referring to past comments from NUS president Malia Bouattia, who has been a frequent critic of Israel and Zionism. Also honoured were Oxford students Yoni Stone and Sacha Ephrussi, who won the WUJS Interfaith Award, while students behind the ‘Reclaim’ campaign won the Campaign of the Year Award for raising awareness around mental health problems. NUS vice president Rob Young won the inaugural Metta Saade Award for Campus Heroes, after he initiated a national review of the experience of Jewish students at university. Praised: Izzy Lenga

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World News / Bibi allegations / Paris anniversary

Bibi’s stature suffers following latest probe Rumours of lavish spending and luxury gifts from wealthy friends have long swirled around Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu but, for the most part, they have been just that – rumours. But times they may be a-changing, writes Stephen Oryszczuk. Last week, Netanyahu was interviewed under caution for five hours, his second such grilling. On the sidelines, senior Likud officials are reported to be sounding out replacements, while leaked details of two ongoing investigations are like catnip to the Israeli press. Netanyahu, Israeli politics’ ultimate survivor, now looks caught in the hairs. He is no stranger to controversy. In 1997, during his first stint as prime minister, prosecutors agonised over whether to charge him over a scandal involving political appointments. Three years later, when he and wife Sara moved out of the official residence, police recommended they be charged for taking silverware, carpets and other valuables with them. In 2013, he was revealed to be spending thousands of pounds’ worth of public money on ice cream, and last year, press reports showed his personal lawyer had a stake in a company selling submarines to Israel.

Left: Screenshot of the golden statue depicting Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured above, in Tel Aviv last year

More than once has Bibi repeated that “nothing will be found because there is nothing”, but last week it emerged he was being questioned about accepting designer suits and overseas trips for his son from World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder. This week, Israeli media divulged that the second police probe was initiated because Netanyahu was overheard discussing political support in return for favours. The first case concerns allegations of “gifts” from billionaire friends (cigars for him, pink Champagne for Sara), whom he then supports at a diplomatic level on their

10-year US visa applications. One of these friends has been named as Arnon ‘Noni’ Mozes, a wealthy media tycoon and publisher of the Yedioth Ahronot newspaper. According to Israel’s wellrespected Channel 2 TV, Bibi and Noni sought to negotiate favourable coverage of him, in return for measures to weaken Yedioth Ahronot’s competitor Israel Hayom. The latter is owned by US casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson, who is one of Netanyahu’s key backers worth an estimated $31 billion. Another Netanyahu friend is Israeli-born TV mogul Arnon Milchan who is behind cult films Fight Club and Pretty Woman and Bibi is alleged to

have pressed US Secretary of State John Kerry on Milchan’s US visa application. Netanyahu dismisses all this as “wrong, incessant pressure that media elements are applying on law enforcement officials”. Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit may agree and find nothing criminal contained herein. Even if Bibi is indicted, he would not need to resign, say his supporters. But whatever the outcome, the PM’s reputation has been undeniably damaged. Political enemies say enough is enough. “Those with integrity among his ministers will be forced to lead him out or to lose their world as well,” tweeted former prime minister Ehud Barak.

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A Pakistani man suspected of spying on a pro-Israel group in Bremen is to go on trial in Berlin. ‘Syed Mustafa H’, 31, targeted the Germany-Israel Society and its former director Reinhold Robbe, according to German media. Prosecutors say the information was passed to an Iranian intelligence unit.

A legal dispute between Warsaw’s Jewish community and the city’s Jewish museum seems to have been resolved. The museum, which opened in 2014, exhibited four fragments of historic Yiddish articles together with translations. However, it was sued by the community, which said it had paid to translate them.

The Auckland office of New Zealand’s foreign minister has been vandalised by Israel supporters after the country joined 13 others in backing a UN resolution denouncing West Bank settlements. Murray McCully found ‘traitor’ and ‘Jew hater’ daubed on his walls, which he called ‘regrettable’.

Nine Venezuelan Jewish converts have had their request to make aliyah denied by Israel’s Interior Ministry because of their insufficient engagement in Jewish communal life. Officials said the applicants converted to Judaism in 2014, but come from the small rural town of Maracay, where no Jewish community exists.

In memory of Paris French politicians and com- Roux laid wreaths at the sites of munity leaders this week the killings and sang the French marked the two years since an national anthem. Le Roux said: “It’s still attack on a Paris Jewish superimportant to show the families, market killed four shoppers. The 9 January 2015 attack those who are still suffering, at the Hyper Cacher came that we haven’t forgotten what two days after terrorists killed happened on that day – or those 12 at the French magazine left behind.” Charlie Hebdo and a day after a police officer was killed by the same Islamist gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, who stormed the market. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and French interior minister Bruno Le The Paris Hyper Cacher victims

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Jewish life in... Belarus / Special report

Weizmann’s legacy Continuing our series on Jewish life around Europe, we visit a village in Belarus where World Jewish Relief helps the long-term unemployed

hen Chaim Weizmann first arrived in Manchester, he wasn’t too happy. He described the northern powerhouse as “frightful, in fact beyond description.” He said: “You are dealing with the dregs of Russian Jewry, a dull ignorant crowd that knows nothing of issues such as Zionism. “You cannot imagine,” he continued, “what it means for an intellectual to live in the English provinces and work with the local Jews. It’s hellish torture!” Born in 1874 in a village near Pinsk, in Belarus, Weizmann had a traditional Jewish education He went to high school then left for Germany at the age of 18 to study chemistry. Degrees followed, then a PhD, before he became, in 1904, a chemistry lecturer at the University of Manchester. He grew to like Manchester and found people to discuss Zionism with in the form of Harry Sacher, a journalist from The Manchester Guardian, and Simon Marks and Israel Sieff, who were in the process of expanding a little-known family business called Marks and Spencer. Weizmann became one of Manchester’s most famous Zionists, arguably responsible for the Balfour Declaration. With Marks, he was also a founder of World Jewish Relief, then known as the Central British Fund for German Jewry. The charity’s connection with Belarus still runs deep, as it supports vulnerable Jewish families across the country. In a village outside Minsk, the capital of Belarus, some 140 miles away from where Weizmann was born, Svetlana Voyevodkina, 41, is a single mother with a large family of five children – Anastasia, 18, Lisa, 14, Alexandra, 10, Sonja, seven, and Timur, five, living in the house of their grandmother, Galina. Svetlana, a former high-school maths teacher, took maternity leave to have Sonja just over seven years ago. She didn’t know it then, but it would be years before she would work again. After giving birth, she was unable to return to teaching as her middle child, Alexandra, developed health problems. “They didn’t allow Sashenka [Alexandra] to attend school and the authorities said she had to be home-schooled,” she says. Alexandra had many health problems which

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Above, people dancing in the streets of Minsk; below, Svetlana Voyevodkina with four of her five children and their grandmother, Galina

required special care and a specific diet. She needed expensive medicine and round-theclock monitoring by a doctor. Svetlana’s entire savings were spent looking after her daughter. “What else could I do?” she says. “You do anything for your children.” With no job and no income, she also had to look after four other children. Despite everything, she refused to give up and began to look for a way to earn money from home so she wouldn’t have to leave Alexandra. “I spent a long time looking and thank God I was accepted as a consultant for a cosmetics company,” she says. “It was a sales job and I had to make calls from my house.” Things didn’t go according to plan, though. “I had been out of work for so long I had lost my communication skills! I knew too little about the make-up industry to be successful and I was bringing in barely any money.” At a Jewish community event one day, Galina, Svetlana’s mother, learned about World Jewish Relief’s work in Minsk and advised her daughter to ask for help. “My mum was very insistent. She told me I had to be in touch with them. Thanks to her I found out about the business training they offered and thanks to her I was able to attend, as she looked after the children for me. When you have childcare concerns, you can never

relax or throw yourself into anything. But here I could. It changed my life.” In the past year, nearly 2,000 people have found employment through World Jewish Relief’s courses, which help workless people to find sustainable jobs. The training builds confidence as well as giving practical business advice and Svetlana became one of the most active participants in her group. “My whole family told me how much my selfesteem changed. I felt better about myself too. I really believed I could do this.” After completing the course, Svetlana decided to become a beautician: “It would give me a large enough income, provide me with professional growth, but, crucially, allow me still to work from home.” Svetlana now leads cosmetics masterclasses at home, and also set up her own make-up business with private clients visiting her. She has not forgotten her passion for mathematics either, and gives private lessons in a training centre next to her house. It wasn’t only Svetlana’s life which was

transformed. “My eldest daughter saw what happened to me and was inspired to go on the same training course to make money to support us,” she says. “She now has a job. We’re so grateful.” After saving, the family managed to buy a small second-hand car, transforming Alexandra’s medical treatment, as they can now access physiotherapy which is not available in the small village where they live. The other children can now attend after-school activities and education sessions. Perhaps it won’t be too long before Belarus produces its next Chaim Weizmann.

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Six months and no smoking gun Continued from page 1 Corbyn or NUS president Malia Bouattia has been dictated by Jerusalem in some clandestine phone call. So where’s the smoking gun? At first glance, media reports of the-Jazeera sting about a “plot” to “take down” a British politician appeared to deliver just that. Such comments by any foreign official would be totally unacceptable and Israel is no exception, as the ambassador acknowledged and apologised for. When it comes to Israel, such language is all the more dangerous because of the inevitability of giving succour to conspiracy theorists who need no encouragement. But to suggest a chat between friends over dinner amounts to a serious “plot” is patently absurd. It’s no offence to prefer that a particular politician wasn’t in a particular post. If that’s the biggest ‘revelation’ after six months, Al-Jazeera must privately be wondering if this was worth the time and resources. If the channel’s grubby little exercise was meant to scare those at the forefront of combatting the pernicious BDS movement or force them into retreat, there’s little sign of that. But for those who enjoy their conspiracy theories, last weekend’s knee-jerk headlines would have only solidified their views. If you need further proof of how sloppy, agenda-led broadcasting emboldens racists, look no further than the sick user comments thread on Al-Jazeera’s own website in response to this story. Naked, shameful anti-Semitism, incidentally, that the channel is yet to delete from its site.

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BOARD MUST RECTIFY MISTAKE AND EXPEL YACHAD I hope readers appreciate the irony of Hannah Weisfeld’s column (Jewish News, 5 January) about her fears for Israel’s democracy. It is Yachad itself that seeks to violate democracy, by attempting to impose policies contrary to the will of the elected government. The latest reprehensible example was Yachad’s urging of the UK foreign minister to accept UN Security Council Resolution 2334. I attended the Zionist Federation’s demo against 2334 and the UK’s approval

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THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT TERRORISM IS THROUGH THE FULL FORCE OF THE LAW The judiciary can continue to say the rule of law is paramount in a democracy, but our enemies play by a different set of rules – a plan of non-recognition and a wish to annihilate. I hope, therefore, every act by terrorists against us and any assistance given to them in any way (supplying mobile phones, for example)

will be dealt with by the full force of the law, and the continual bleating from the left will fall on deaf ears. These enemies will be defeated only from strength not weakness, no matter how loud we scream democracy.

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POLITICAL EVENTS ABOUT ISRAEL MAKE ME DESPAIR An Israeli diplomat is caught on camera plotting to “take down” an MP, while over in Israel Benjamin Netanyahu accepts free cigars. These are not just headlines that will just be tomorrow’s bin liners. There is no carpet big enough to brush all our sins under. I am proud of Israel. I have been proud to call myself an Israeli since I made aliyah at the age of 22, but today I am distraught. Everyone knows that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions. Not here, not in Israel, not Israelis. I am sick to my stomach to admit I find some consolation in the thought that maybe Donald Trump might be the man to make an impotent change. Israel – my love – stop the flow of constant drivel and listen for a moment. I know it’s difficult but,

who knows? You may actually hear something. Pay attention Israel – this is a wake-up call. Howard Burns Haifa, Israel

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE HAS FORM ON ANTI-SEMITISM Justin Cohen reports that that the UK Government was blindsided by the Foreign Office over the vote at the UN (Jewish News, 5 January). Certainly the FO has a long and nasty history concerning Jews. My brother-in-law (in his 80s) tells the story of the applicant for a position there who, when filling in the part of the form that asked for religion wrote ‘anti-Semite’ and got the job. Clearly apocryphal but demonstrates the reputation the UK’s FO has long had. I want to know who the architect at the FO was for this anti-Semitism and what is being done about them? That should surely be the next project for Mr Cohen or some Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein-type journalist to expose.

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What the Azaria case says about Israel’s moral core DAVID HOROVITZ EDITOR, TIMES OF ISRAEL

decade a go, I interviewed Eliezer Shkedi, commander of the Israeli Air Force at the time, and he made the-then shattering revelation that Hamas’ Kassam rocket crews in Gaza often took children with them when going to fire rockets indiscriminately into Israel. Why ? I asked. Because they knew, Shkedi explained, the IAF wouldn’t fire on them if there was a risk the children would be hit. I thought about that, then asked, provocatively, whether an argument could be made that the IAF had a moral obligation to open fire nonetheless — since the Israeli military’s prime obligation is to protect Israel’s citizens, and holding fire to safeguard children that the enemy had deliberately brought into a combat zone meant exposing Israeli innocents to fatal risk. “That is the kind of dilemma we live with every day,” Shkedi replied. Of course, he explained, the IAF wouldn’t fire if the pilots knew

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there was a likelihood they would hit children. Instead, the air force worked endlessly to improve its accuracy — so that if, a few years ago, it wouldn’t fire when there was a child within a few metres of the Hamas rocket crew, it now had that distance down to a metre or a metre and a half. The goal, in short, was to tackle the terrorists while doing the utmost not to harm the children, even at a risk to the terrorists’ Israeli targets. “If we know [the terrorist] is holding his son’s

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Sgt Elor Azaria sitting with his parents and his girlfriend Orel, left, in court last week

hand, we do not fire,” Shkedi said then. “Even if the terrorist is in the midst of firing a Kassam, and the Kassam is aimed to kill, we do not fire.” He added: “I’m proud of what we do. I think it is unprecedented. I’m proud of our morals. I’m proud of our operational capabilities.” Members of Israel’s security forces, primarily our 18- to 21-year-old sons and daughters, are required to grapple with moral dilemmas as acute as that one all the time, and often with an urgency, a split-second imperative for a decision, in circumstances more unexpected, and with less recourse to precedent, than the dilemma regarding kids and Hamas. Facing the ongoing lone wolf Palestinian terror wave, for instance, our troops must decide instantly about drivers and pedestrians approaching them at roadblocks, people walking past them on the streets. Are they slowing down? Did they hear my shouted order to halt? What’s in their bags, what’s in their pockets, what’s in their hands? Is that a phone, a knife, a gun? Do nothing, and you may die, and other innocent Israelis may die. Do something, and an innocent Palestinian may lose his or her life and yours will forever turn on the incident. Hamas and other terrorists who target Israelis are seeking to kill us. They make no secret of it; Hamas is committed to destroying Israel. But that ambition also involves seeking to destabilise our society, to make daily life here fraught, angst-filled and ideally, from their point of view, ultimately untenable. And it involves corroding our society and its values, attempting to render our efforts to maintain our own morality in the face of their murderous hostility so costly as to be unsustainable. It is unclear whether Golda Meir did say even if peace came it would take a long time for us to forgive our Arab enemies for having made us kill their children, but the ostensible quotation resonates because it contains a truth: Tackling stabbers, car-rammers, rocketeers and suicide bombers poses moral as well as practical challenges for Israel and its armed forces. The

struggle not only to keep this country secure and its people safe but to do so while seeking to act morally — even, ironically, as much of the international community despicably accuses us of doing the reverse — is relentless and complex. Enter Elor Azaria, the IDF combat medic whose various reasons for shooting dead a disarmed and incapacitated would-be murderous Palestinian assailant last March in Hebron were carefully dissected and clinically rejected by the army military tribunal that convicted him of manslaughter last week. The very fact Azaria was tried, painstakingly, in an unimpeachably-credible Israeli court represented reaffirmation of Israel’s determination to preserve its morality — its insistence on preventing our enemies, our terrorist foes, from reducing us to their cynical, murderous depths. The judges concluded Azaria had not acted in the throes of a split-second dilemma or made a wrong but understandable choice in the heat of one of those near-impossible circumstances that Israel’s security forces so often find themselves in. Rather, the judges determined, he had acted deliberately, motivated by a sense of revenge and the conviction terrorists deserve to die. Immediately pardoning Azaria, it should be obvious but apparently is not, would represent a mockery of that legal process and our vital, selfpreserving values. It would imply a tolerance for the intolerable. Azaria’s actions were an aberration; a pardon would sanitise them as a norm. It is because we must not allow ourselves to be dragged down to the level of those who seek to wipe us out. It is because our morality is central to our legitimacy – and this has nothing to do with what the world thinks about us, and everything to do with what we ourselves insist upon. It is because, as Shkedi made clear, we have the wisdom and the skill both to maintain our morals and the necessary operational capabilities — indeed, they complement each other in ensuring we are able to defend ourselves. First published by timesofisrael.com – partnered by Jewish News

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Opinion

Shady Israeli plot? This was boasting over booze BRENDAN O’NEILL EDITOR, SPIKED ONLINE

hen does the boasting of a political adviser over cheap plonk become a sinister foreign plot to overthrow democracy? When that political adviser is Israeli. The response to Al Jazeera’s months-long campaign to ensnare an Israeli official saying something off about British MPs has been extraordinary, and more than a little hysterical. Al Jazeera has made a four-part TV series called The Lobby (it might as well have called it You Know Who), which apparently reveals the sinister reach and dastardly behaviour of pro-Israel lobbyists in Britain. In a clip released to a suitably titillated and outraged British media, Al Jazeera footage shows Israeli Embassy adviser Shai Masot talking down British MPs, and wondering out loud if some might actually be taken down. He says he’s worried about British politicians who are critical of Israeli settlements. He

specifically mentions Alan Duncan, the deputy foreign minister, as one of “the MPs I want to take down”. Cue spittle and fury across the media. The Guardian referred to it as an “Israeli plot”. This is a real and scary “plot against UK politicians”, said Al Jazeera. Plot? A plot is a “plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal”. The people here — Masot, Maria Strizzolo, an aide to Tory minister Robert Halfon, and the AJ bloke doing the stirring and secret filming — didn’t make plans. They were sounding off; it was an adviser showing off over booze. When a British politico, even a British political adviser overseas, bad-mouths politicians he doesn’t like, it’s unlikely it would be splashed across the media as evidence of some shady “plot”. Israel, however, is treated differently. Israel is viewed more suspiciously. Israeli things — advisers, academics, even produce — are seen as toxic, a threat to our stability and democracy, and thus deserving of very close observation and possibly even boycotting and punishment.

George Galloway says we now have “clear evidence that a foreign government in league with their agents in parliament are a conspiracy against [our] government and [the] UK”. No, we don’t. All we have is evidence of an adviser to the Israeli Embassy not liking certain British MPs and ridiculing them over wine. That kind of thing happens all the time. It’s the stuff of foreign relations. And lobbying is a central part of modern politics; everyone does it, not just Israel. The fact both Masot and Strizzolo have now left their positions suggests their chat enjoyed no official sanction whatsoever. Al Jazeera’s revelation, painstakingly set up over months, is tapping into a rather unhinged

view of Israel. The language used is striking. If one Israeli adviser says mean things about MPs, it’s a “plot”; when Israel takes military action, it’s “bloodletting”; if Israel’s war moves kill children, as war tragically does, it’s a “child-killer” or a “child-killing machine” — things rarely said about the British or American military. There’s a striking double standard at play here — and a conspiracy-theory mindset, seeing Israel as awesomely powerful, seeking to puppeteer our political class, overthrow our democracy and bend Britain and America to its craven cause. To control the world, in essence. I can’t be the only person who hears in this the worrying echo of old prejudices.

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Showing up to defend Israel – not lying in bed ALAN JOHNSON

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, BICOM

hy am I speaking at an academic conference on Israel’s right to exist at University College Cork (UCC) in March? After all, ‘International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Exceptionalism and Responsibility’ is the conference cancelled two years ago by Southampton University after protests from the Jewish community. I am attending because I believe – like Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen’s co-script writer for the Oscar-winning film Annie Hall – that “showing up is 80 percent of life”. Brickman added: “Sometimes it’s easier to hide home in bed. I’ve done both.” What does it mean to ‘hide home in bed’ when it comes to defending Israel’s right to exist in today’s intellectual culture? And what does it mean to ‘show up’? ‘Hiding in bed’ can take many forms. It can mean creating lots of nice warm echo-chambers where Israel’s friends get together, tell each other how right they are, how perfect Israel is, and cheer each other up. Nothing wrong with that. Israel’s friends need to be heard and we all

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SHOWING UP MEANS ENGAGING IN A PUBLIC BATTLE FOR THE EAR OF THE ‘GLOBAL CREATIVE CLASS’

need a bit of cheer sometimes. It can mean the anachronistic (and convenient) belief that only the elite matters: if you have the ear of the right people, then why pay any attention to those intellectuals? And ‘hiding in bed’ can mean trying to ban things you don’t like. But what all this has failed to understand is that Israel’s future will not be secured by organised home-team cheering, censorship or whispering in the ear of elites. ‘Showing up’ today means engaging in a public battle for the ear of what Israel’s own Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called the ‘global creative class’. Like it or not, this class now sets the terms for the international standing of a country.

The soft power of the world’s opinion formers – the public intellectuals, the commentators, the academics, the artists – is decisive in ‘framing’ a state to world opinion. More: as with every other major attitudinal change in western societies in the past 40 years, it is those with soft power that eventually reshapes the decisionmaking of those with hard power, as the 14-0 UN Security Council vote should have made clear. In our networked and media-saturated global society, to lose this class is the strategic danger to Israel. And the danger is real. For decades, an intellectual separation barrier has been built up between Israel and this global creative class. The barrier is formed by two things. First, the creation of a sophisticated system of concepts and a detailed historical narrative that structures thought among the global creative class about Israel: ‘nakba’, ‘ethnic cleansing’, ‘apartheid state’, ‘settler-colonialism’, ‘Jews are an ‘invented people’, ‘Zionism is racism’, ‘one-state solution’ and more. Second, a cadre, a set of activists, serious people with authority and a record in their organisations, who translate this system of concepts into a variety of idioms and forms of activism, each tailored to their organisation,

each experienced as immanent to the values of, and so each influential within, academia, the churches, the trades unions, the charities, the human rights communities, the arts world, the liberal and social democratic parties, and so on. ‘Showing up’ to defend Israel’s right to exist means challenging this system of concepts and these activists not only with glib talking points, lobbying, infographics, glossy brochures and bans, but by a rigorous, intellectually coherent, academically respectable, politically progressive defence of the Jewish homeland: a counter-frame with historical depth and explanatory power that can be felt on the pulses of the generally progressive global creative class, and to keep it up until that class is moved to support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish homeland with full rights for its national minority rather than oppose it. It is that defence of Israel’s right to exist I will present when I ‘show up’ in Cork. And which will be published in Fathom, BICOM’s online journal with its internationally-renowned writers and its quarter of a million readers in academia, politics, churches, trades unions, charities, human rights communities, the arts world, the liberal and social democratic parties, and so on.

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Three men in a storm – but just one apology JENNI FRAZER

aught on tape, caught on camera, and just caught. That’s the fate of three men in the eye of the Israeli storm this week — and in only one case has there been an apology for aberrant behaviour. On tape is none other than Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, questioned at length by his country’s police last Friday and likely to be in the frame for more prolonged questioning over allegations of corruption. At first these questions apparently related to gifts of champagne and cigars, laughed off by Bibi and his inner circle. But now it appears that there is more substance to the questions, which deal with conversations he had with media tycoon Arnon Mozes, and which are the ones on tape. In return for toning down the coverage of the Netanyahu family by his paper, Yediot Ahronoth, Mozes was apparently offered a cap on circulation of the paper’s great rival, Israel Today, owned by Bibi’s

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WHAT BIBI HOPES TO GAIN BY CALLING FOR A PARDON FOR AZARIA IS, AS SO OFTEN WITH THE PRIME MINISTER, A GREAT MYSTERY great friend, US squillionaire Sheldon Adelson. Will this dirt stick any more than the champagne and cigars? Doubtful. But it leaves an undeniably nasty taste. Now to the man caught on camera, loose cannon Shai Masot, for whom an understandably furious Israeli ambassador Mark Regev has had to apologise to Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan. Masot — an employee at the Israeli Embassy in London — was taped in an undercover sting by Al Jazeera TV discussing “taking down” various British

MPs, including Sir Alan himself. It is undeniably true that Sir Alan does not love Israel as he might. What is not clear is what was Masot’s level of seniority at the embassy — although his employment is now due to be terminated very shortly. What does interest me is that the Foreign Office has said very quickly that it regards the matter as closed. That means that no matter how much gleeful manna is sought to be made of this idiocy by Israel’s natural enemies, it probably will not linger, except as an unfortunate glitch in otherwise good relations between Britain and Israel. Lastly, and most troubling of all, comes the case of Elor Azaria, the Israeli sergeant-medic convicted last week of manslaughter for shooting dead last year a wounded — and disarmed — Palestinian terrorist in Hebron. Azaria was carefully and properly convicted of manslaughter by an Israeli military court. But within days of his conviction, we had no less a person than Israel’s prime minister — the prime minister! — calling for him to receive a pardon.

This in turn has fuelled the furious debate over the case that has now erupted in the Israeli media following Azaria’s conviction. It is a debate that divides pretty evenly. There are those who described this not-very-well-educated 20-year-old from Ramle as “everybody’s child”, and those who failed to understand how shooting dead a wounded man can conceivably be construed as “defending civilians”. What remains true of the Israeli Defence Forces is that the state asks young men and women — but mainly impressionable young men aged 18, 19 and 20 — to make near-impossible, split-second decisions every day while they are serving the country. In the case of Sgt Azaria, this was not such a decision but one that was taken while a man lay wounded on the ground in front of him, plainly and observably no longer a threat. What Bibi hopes to gain by calling for a pardon for Azaria is, as so often with Bibi, an impenetrable mystery. Somewhere, perhaps, there will be an explanatory tape.

The trial of Azaria shows Israel’s beacon status NICK FERRARI

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he extraordinary case of Sergeant Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting a Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay critically wounded on the ground, speaks to the very heart of of what the state of Israel is all about. While I’m well used to the passion displayed by callers to my weekday morning radio phonein show regularly on almost every Middle East issue from migration to Manischewitz, this case got the emotions going like few others. Whether caller after caller were demanding Azaria spend a lifetime behind bars or supporting his immediate release from the cells and almost a statue to be cast in his honour, the grim reality of the situation hit home. No one could support the fatal consequences of the action taken by Azaria, who was 19 at the time of the shooting in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in March. The sorry episode began when two Palestinians stabbed and

wounded an Israeli soldier at a military checkpoint and the IDF then killed one and wounded the other, Abed al-Fatah al-Sharif, 21, leaving him lying and bleeding on the road. Approximately six minutes later, Azaria arrived and then five minutes after that, a full 11 minutes after the initial attack, Azaria shot defenceless Sharif as he lay motionless. Azaria subsequently said he feared Sharif might have a bomb under his jacket, yet the court heard he offered no such warning to his colleagues and medical staff who were close by. It is to Israel’s credit that this case has had so much public discussion. Can you imagine any other country in the region initiating criminal proceedings against one of its soldiers in similar circumstances? Let alone providing detailed video footage and unlimited media coverage of the subsequent trial and verdict. Israel insists on carrying on in a wholly democratic way and therefore serves as something of a beacon in a grotesquely distorted region. However, this means it cannot blink when it comes to Azaria’s sentencing, which is currently scheduled for Sunday.

The military high command denounced the shooting and called it a grave breach of conduct. But Israeli society was divided. With the backdrop of continued random Palestinian attacks, the sentiment from many on the right as well as many parents of children of a similar age currently serving was to label the soldier a hero. This is wrong. Just as Benjamin Netanyahu was wrong to support the notion of a pardon in a Facebook post, the military’s code of conduct makes it absolutely plain precisely what accepted procedure is –but it’s worth noting there’s a gulf of difference between reading the code in safety as opposed to being on the front line, and potentially facing people who would slit your throat as soon as look at you.

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However, the instruction is simple. Assailants can be incapacitated, but once neutralised, they cannot be killed. Some commentators have said this case has highlighted the problem of excessive force, but that argument is fatuous. There can be no doubt excessive force was used. It is fortunate and correct that the initial charge of murder was dropped, not least as that would have carried a possible 20 year jail term. However, if Israel is to continue to abide by its remarkably dignified, and at times deeply difficult tradition, of always attempting to do the right thing then Azaria must spend a brief time behind bars. Anything less would demean the country’s position as the only functioning democracy in the region.

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Volunteers from two United Synagogues took part in Project Chesed and Tikun’s joint cookery sessions for those in need. Participants of all ages from Barnet and Edgware US made a variety of dishes in their shul kitchens before donating them to various charities.

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A group of Camp Simcha youngsters aged seven and upwards, coping with a range of medical conditions, spent a weekend in Kent. The charity’s Daniel Gillis said: “As well as a wonderful weekend, the other benefit we find with children’s retreat is the social aspect for the children, especially the older ones. They get a rare opportunity to socialise and make friends with other children who understand what they are going through.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF

MONICA’S WIZO TALK

Author and journalist Monica Porter was the guest speaker at WIZO’s winter supper, where she recounted the heroic story of her mother Vali Rácz, a famous actress and singer, who risked her life hiding Jews in her home in Hungary during the Second World War. More than £1,400 was raised for WIZO.

Yavneh girls make artful gifts GIFT’s educational hands-on chesed sessions took place in Manchester this week with the charity’s Sophie Woolfstein and Sara Tabor running a session at Yavneh Girls’ School, where the students decorated picture frames for old-age homes across the city.

COLIN’S ACCOLADE

Colin Glass of Turbervilles Solicitors, one of West London’s leading law firms, has been awarded the Charities and not for profit – Lawyer of the Year – UK Award by the Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2016. He is also a warden at Edgware United Synagogue.

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Reading Hebrew Congregation held a successful Italian Dine and Magic evening. Guest Rabbi Geoffrey Shisler, an associate of the Inner Magic Circle, dazzled all and the event raised £700, which will go towards kitchen upgrades at the synagogue.

100-SECOND INTERVIEW Celebrating our community’s centenarians... What was your occupation before retirement?

Name: Rebecca Zideman Date of birth: 27/09/1916 Place of birth: London Where do you live? How long have you lived there? Where did you live before?

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Southend & Westcliff ’s Aid Society annual music quiz attracted nearly 120 people and raised £2,000, which will aid special projects at the Jewish Care Community Centre in the town.

Since last year, I’ve lived at Jewish Care’s Princess Alexandra Home in Stanmore. Before that, I was in Kingsbury for a couple of years. I lived in Pinner for most of my adult life, since 1945, and was brought up in Hackney, until our house was bombed during the war. My sister and I then went to live in Nottingham for a short period.

I won a scholarship, but my parents didn’t want me to take it up, so I became a dress designer and maker and ran a small successful business. During the war, I was a dressmaker and a Red Cross volunteer. I taught Hebrew at Pinner cheder to more than 300 children between 1952 and 1962. Later in life I became a clerk doing credit accounts. Were you married and, if so, for how long and to whom?

I was married to Alf for more than 60 years and I’ve been widowed for 10 years. Alf and I got married during the war. When he returned from Burma, we moved to Pinner.

Do you have any children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren?

I’m very proud of my family. I have one son, David, and my daughter-in law Lesley. David was a consultant anaesthetist at Hammersmith Hospital, is an honorary physician to the Queen and was made a

Lieutenant in the Royal Victorian Order in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. I have two granddaughters, a great-grandson, who’s just a few months old and threeand-a-half-year old twin greatgranddaughters.

That’s difficult to answer as I grew up during the war. If you could offer advice to today’s youngsters, what would it be?

Lead a lovely life and it will be lovely. Take opportunities when they occur and accept that God is guiding you.

What is your happiest memory?

Seeing my grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. What do you consider to be your greatest/proudest achievements?

The birth of my son, David.

Are the elderly given the respect they deserve in Britain today?

We should have respect for all human beings and it would be a much easier world. The secret to a long life is ….

Who are your heroes of today and yesteryear?

My own father, Isaac David Keller.

A contented heart and trying to help people.

If you could live your life again, would you do anything differently?

I would have liked to be a nurse, but in the 1930s you had to be over a certain height and I wasn’t. Do today’s young people have it easy compared to when you were growing up?

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FIT 1 AFORMEZUZAH THE NEWS

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis paid a special visit to the new offices of Jewish News on Monday to fix mezuzot. Editor Richard Ferrer said: “I can think of no finer way to welcome the newspaper to its new home than to have the Chief Rabbi perform this wonderful mitzvah. I hope it brings many blessings.”

GROUPS 2 FAITH GOT TALENT

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As part of Enfield Inter-Faith Week, a ‘Faith’s got Talent’ evening was held at Southgate Progressive Synagogue. People from local faith groups sang, rapped, danced, played musical instruments, and took part in a recitation competition, which was won by two members of the Bahia community.

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UNITE 3 USOVERWOMEN QUESTIONS

A total of 200 people came to US Women’s annual quiz at Woodside Park US from 20 different communities to put their knowledge to the test. Cockfosters & N Southgate took the title, defeating the hosts on a tiebreaker. Jacqui Zinkin and Claire Lemer, Co-chairs of US Women, said: “Another huge success. It’s a wonderful opportunity for our members to come together and create and reignite friendships with individuals from other communities that they may not otherwise have a chance to meet.”

TEN4 NORWOOD’S NIS MASTERCLASS A group of 10 people supported by Norwood travelled to London’s Olympic Park to watch the 2016 Wheelchair Tennis Masters. After lunch, the group were given a guided tour of the centre, before taking their seats for the main competition. Among the players was British number two and silver medallist Andy Lapthorne, who won his game 3/2. Julian Primhak said: “It was fantastic to see Andy win the match.”

MATURE 5 PINNER’S FUNDRAISERS

The Maturian Committee of active over 60s based at Pinner Synagogue, recently held a highly successful ‘Singing Sixties’ evening and supper. Nearly 200 people helped raise £2,000 in aid of the Community Security Trust.

CHORAL 6 TWINNED SHABBATON

Kenton ReJEWvenate Committee, under the chairmanship of Roy Block, spearheaded a Shabbaton at Kenton Synagogue, which hosted members of the choir of the Great Synagogue of Strasbourg, La Chorale Le Chant Sacré. The Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg, Rabbi Rene Gutman, and his wife accompanied Chazan Jonathan Blum and the Strasbourg Choir with their families. It was the first venture between the Strasbourg and Kenton communities.

Simcha announcements Ben Goldstein celebrated his barmitzvah at Bushey Synagogue.

Lesley and Jeremy Margolin were married at Dyrham Park.

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Alex Manoff celebrated his barmitzvah at Chigwell and Hainault Synagogue.

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Arianna Sultan celebrated her batmitzvah at Pinner United Synagogue.

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Life Lifestyle / Antiques Roadshow

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Remembrance roadshow A concept born from an idea by writer Jenni Frazer and Yad Vashem has resulted in a unique Holocaust Memorial episode of Antiques Roadshow, as Jenni explains

pupil who had been taught by the man who had written it and kept for years by his widow, who could not read the language. How, I asked, do you get this material? The archivist told me experts from the museum take to the road a couple of times a year, advertising ahead that they will be arriving in an Israeli town. Under the banner Gathering the Fragments, the staff from Yad Vashem invite survivors — or, more usually these days, their families — to bring forward objects of interest to be assessed. Where possible, people are asked to donate material to Yad Vashem, but where this cannot be done, the experts make scans and copies. Whichever the case, people are

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t’s just over three years since I went on a press trip to Yad Vashem and was knocked sideways by the astonishing contents of the archives, housed beneath the main building in an area not open to the public. There, side by side with a teddy bear that had somehow survived the war years, were the original IBM computer cards for the Mauthausen concentration camp, with the reason for imprisonment recorded on every card: “Hungarian Jew”. We saw two halves of a photograph of two Jewish women which had been meticulously rejoined, years after being ripped in two (one woman died, the other survived); we saw a diary in Romanian, signed by every

The “Jews Out!” board game and, inset, one of the markers for players to use

given some better idea of the jigsaw pieces that make up the Holocaust. I asked if this venture had ever taken place outside Israel, and was told it had not. So I asked if Yad Vashem might consider holding a Gathering the Fragments event in Britain, a place with just the right kind of critical mass of survivors and refugees. Britain also had one more element that I thought important: the numbers of Jews who were allowed in to the country before the war on domestic visas, many of whom had married into the general population. There must be, I thought, descendants of those Austrian and German Jews who had material they did not understand and

didn’t know what to do with. Everyone I spoke to in the ensuing two-and-a-half years agreed that it was a great idea, but no one could quite make the moves to make it happen. Then last April — after sustained nagging on my part — I was introduced to a civil servant at the Cabinet Office who was involved in Britain’s Holocaust Memorial Foundation, which is due to build a memorial and learning centre in the parliamentary area. We met several times while I outlined the idea and — flippantly, I admit — told the civil servant that a friend of mine had characterised Gathering the Fragments as “Antiques Roadshow Meets the Holocaust”. A lightbulb appeared to have illuminated over her head. She would, she said, get on to the BBC right away. This is why I found myself, on a cold November morning, in the gold rococo surroundings of the Foreign Office’s grand Locarno Rooms, where the resulting special Antiques Roadshow was being filmed. Separately from my idea, the Holocaust

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Antiques Roadshow / Lifestyle display their yellow stars: it’s fair to say they weren’t thrilled about this. But for those who were able to relate their stories on film, the opportunity was a once-in-a-lifetime one. They included Naomi Gryn, daughter of the late Reform Rabbi Hugo Gryn, who had brought silver Judaica buried in the garden of their home in Carpathia by Hugo’s brave mother, Bella. She survived the war and was subsequently able to dig up the chanukiah, Kiddush cup and silver candlesticks, all of which are still in use today by the Gryn family. On a plush Foreign Office couch lay a folded pair of striped trousers, worn by a man named Joe on the day of his liberation from the Auschwitz concentration camp. A visiblyshaken Bruce spoke to Joe’s widow, Sybil, who

Left: children’s writer Judith Kerr, author of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, with some of her childhood sketches. Kerr and her family escaped to Britain in 1933. Above, a scene from the special episode of the show. Right: Fiona Bruce and Natasha Kaplinsky

Memorial Foundation had already commissioned TV presenter Natasha Kaplinsky to interview just over 100 survivors and rescuers, whose brief testimony will be interspersed with the programme. Regular Antiques Roadshow presenters Fiona Bruce, Mark Smith and Paul Atterbury

floated among the survivors present, some of whose stories they already knew. At regular intervals, one could hear voices shouting “Natasha!” as people strove to attract the newsreader’s attention. Several survivors appeared to have been invited along at the last minute merely to

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ON A COUCH LAY A PAIR OF STRIPED TROUSERS WORN BY A MAN ON THE DAY OF HIS LIBERATION FROM AUSCHWITZ

now lives in Edgware. She said she had never been able to get rid of the trousers, as they were so much a part of her husband’s life. In an anteroom, two women produced some grisly “jewellery” made in Belsen and presented to their uncle, a chaplain with the liberating forces in 1945. There was a brooch made from the wire on Red Cross parcels, and a cameo made from the bone handle of a toothbrush. The Wiener Library’s Ben Barkow brought a repellent board game, Jews Out, one of three such copies held by the library; and, in a note of hope, Julia Burton and Sue Bermange of the ’45 Aid Society brought the four extraordinary Memory Quilts, which represent the lives of “the Boys”, the 732 Jewish orphans taken in by Britain after the war. The programme is not what Gathering the Fragments aims to be — but it is a meaningful look at some of the objects that formed the framework of the Holocaust. It seems a shame that many of the stories will remain untold on the programme — but perhaps this is a worthwhile project for the future, and the planned British Holocaust Memorial learning centre.  Antiques Roadshow Holocaust Memorial will be screened on Sunday, 15 January at 7.30pm, on BBC1

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Sweetcorn fritters with smoked salmon My sweetcorn fritters are flavoured with both fresh and dried coriander and are delicious with drinks or as part of a buffet supper. They freeze well, so make a double batch as a great canapé standby.

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Ingredients 225g frozen sweetcorn – defrosted 20g pack fresh coriander – roughly chopped 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 large egg 50g plain flour ½ teaspoon baking powder 1 tablespoon crème fraîche or light cream cheese Salt and freshly-ground black pepper 4 spring onions – finely chopped 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

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Topping 6 tablespoons crème fraîche or light cream cheese 100g smoked salmon trimmings 2 spring onions – finely shredded Sprigs of fresh coriander Dusting of freshly-ground black pepper

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Sedra: Vayechi / It’s Biblical: Leah / Orthodox Judaism

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RABBI NAFTALI SCHIFF This week is the final instalment in the epic Genesis saga. It is the end of an era for the Bnei Yisrael as they transition from a family to a nation. United again, the bothers surround Jacob to receive their orders regarding their role in the Jewish nation. The Midrash paints a picture of the 12 sons surrounding Jacob’s deathbed, declaring in unison the ultimate proclamation of faith, the Shema. Here the appellation “Israel” refers to their father Jacob and the sons declare their fidelity to the truth of God’s existence that Abraham had introduced. The declaration of the Shema around the deathbed, at the point of transition to the next world, is an all-important affirmation of who we are and what we stand for. Each tribe has its own unique blessing, its own personality and role. The blessings both define those roles and allocate resources to fulfil them – this is the true beauty of the Bnei Yisrael. Each of us has our own unique role to play in the world. We all have our unique talents and abilities as well as our foibles and challenges. Jewish unity does not mean we have to be the ww same; we were not created to be identical to anyone else. Rather, we are, like the sons of Jacob, invited to stand circle, each one of us an equal distance to the centre and in our own way declare Shema Yisrael. In doing so, we affirm that we are part of the Jewish people and its historic mission and in this way we can use our God-given talents not only for our own benefit, but also to impact the entire Jewish people and by extension the whole world.

 Rabbi Naftali Schiff is chief executive of Jewish Futures Trust

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RABBI ARIEL ABEL THIS WEEK:

LEAH

Leah was the oldest daughter of Laban the Aramean. When Jacob fled the wrath of his brother Esau, he first encountered the beautiful Rachel, Leah’s younger sister, at the well. Smitten by her beauty, Jacob set his mind on her and worked for seven years. On the wedding night, Laban exchanged Rachel for Leah. The morning after, Jacob discovered that deceit. Furious, he demanded to know why Laban had done this. Laban replied that Leah must be married off before her younger sister, according to local custom. However, he was happy for Jacob to wed Rachel, too. One week later, Rachel married Jacob. Thus, from day one, Leah

was hated, and the object of suspicion and envy in that unhappy home. Jacob was resentful about having his virginity taken by a woman for whom he had no feelings and over whom he had been cheated. Rachel eventually blamed Jacob when Leah bore him sons, while she

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remained barren for several years. Leah tried all she could to win Jacob’s favour. On one occasion, her eldest son Reuben brought her mandrakes, the root of which was used in an ancient medicine for fertility. Leah exchanged the mandrakes for a night with Jacob. Ironically, on the night that Rachel prepared her love potion, Leah became pregnant with a fifth son, Issachar. The tryst between the wives and their husband spilled over to the children. Reuben zealously defended his mother, to the extent that he slept with Jacob’s concubine, Bilhah, thereby forcing him to accept that he had wronged Leah in his conjugal duties. Later, Joseph, Rachel’s first child, was sold off to the Egyptian slave trade by his jealous half-brothers. Thus, the misery of our ancestor’s slavery originates in a history of family strife, the result of hatred and vengeance for an unrequited love.

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Thou shalt not kill – but what about abortion?

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RABBI MIRIAM BERGER “Thou shalt not kill” isn’t a controversial mitzvah until it is used as a proof text to forbid abortion. The termination of an unwanted pregnancy is never something taken lightly, but by Israeli law, unless circumstances conform to a very specific set of criteria, the woman in question has to be interviewed by a panel of professionals to decide whether a termination is permitted. Women allege the process to be invasive and humiliating. Member of the Knesset Rabbi Yehuda Glick, as well as Muslim MK Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya, have asked the Israeli parliament to discuss putting a member of clergy on the panel representing the religion of the woman in question. Their request suggests this medical procedure is of a religious nature and does not take into account whether the woman herself feels this is a matter that she values a religious response to. The Jewish view on abortion can

be interpreted most liberally as it asserts that the existing life – that of the mother – has to take priority over the potential life – that of the developing foetus. The scope for different rulings appeals to what an individual rabbi would view as the potential threat to the woman’s well-being of having to carry to term and bring up the child. An unwanted pregnancy as a result of abuse, for instance, could result in severe physiological distress for the mother, although may not pose any physical threat. As a rabbI, I see my role when it comes to the question of abortion as one of pastoral support and not as an arbiter of halacha. I take very seriously the value of human life and see Divinity in every successful pregnancy, but I value a society in which people make informed decisions for themselves and interpretations of halacha need a vote, not a veto.

 Miriam Berger is rabbi of Finchley Reform Synagogue

BY RABBI LEAH JORDAN One of the most common enquiries received by rabbis is how to deal with death and mourning. But when it comes to comprehending the deaths of famous celebrities, whom we did not know personally, is our sense of grief appropriate? In Judaism, it is only the immediate family who carry out the rituals of mourning – burial, Kaddish, shiva and so on. Certainly, we are not the immediate mourners of Terry Wogan, Carrie Fisher or George Michael. But people who have touched our lives through music, art or public life always leave deep marks. In the words of Rabbi Lionel Blue, another great who died in 2016 – and whose passing was felt keenly by

members of the Jewish community – “Nothing disappears”. Rabbi Blue said those words only recently to a friend of mine. This was the faith discovered by a deeply closeted and distressed Jewish boy from East London in the stillness of a Quaker meeting house in Oxford. “I am too small to reach You,” he wrote in our Progressive Jewish liturgy, “and You are too great for me

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to comprehend. Therefore I shall try to be still, and in the stillness wait patiently for You to find me. “You are so great, You can bend down to me and the distance between us, which my mind could not cover, Your love can bridge.” Another Jewish great, singersongwriter Leonard Cohen – who was buried last November – wrote to his great love only a few months before his death: “Well Marianne, it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine…” On how to grieve for someone you’ve never met, I advise a quiet reflection to oneself as to what they meant to you and why they brought meaning into your life is perhaps the most appropriate response.  Leah Jordan is Liberal Judaism’s student and young adult chaplain

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HJPS are looking to recruit maternity covers for a Isaacs KS2 teacher and a KS1/2 Headteacher: Mr Steven Jewish Studies teacher, starting January 2015. There is the possibility of permanent employment for both posts. To apply, please send a c.v. with supporting to admin@hjps.herts.sch.uk. Jewish Primary School is astatement modern-orthodox Jewish Primary School

Hertsmere Further information the school can be found of on our our website, in Radlett, easily accessible from NW about London. We are proud excellent www.hjps.herts.sch.uk.We are committed to safeguarding and promoting standards of behaviour and academic achievement. We are committed to the safety and welfare of children. Successful applicants will be subject to providing pupils with a vibrant and enriching Jewish experience. enhanced CRB checks

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Applications are warmly welcomed from dedicated, enthusiastic and committed senior leaders. You should be forward thinking and wish to be part of an exciting and challenging setting. You will: • have the ability and confidence to communicate, lead and inspire the team around you working in partnership with the Headteacher. • be relentless in your commitment to raising pupil achievement, with a proven track record as an excellent teacher. We welcome applications from candidates who are looking to work full or part-time. Applications close: Friday 27 January at 12 noon Shortlisting: Monday 30 January Interviews: Thursday 9 February Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please see our website at www.hjps.herts.sch.uk/recruitment for how to apply. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children. Successful applicants will be subject to enhanced CRB checks.

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NL Raiders A are eight points clear at the top of the Masters Division One table after a 3-1 win over Scrabble, thanks to Lee Cash’s double and Alex Bourne’s strike. London Lions A beat Brady A 6-5. Michael Abraham hit a hat-trick, with Hadley Silver, James Temple and a David Kyte penalty sealing the points. St John’s Wood moved joint-top in Division Two as Adam Soller’s strike saw them beat Hendon Harriers 1-0. Six goals from Lloyd Nygate, plus Sid Shaw’s strike helped Glenthorne to a 7-3 win over Marshside. Russell Rich scored in EDRS’ 1-0 win over Brady B.

ROWLEY LANE SIDE LOSE UNBEATEN RUN London Lions began the New Year by losing their 100 percent winning start to the season in emphatic style. Falling to a 5-2 home defeat to Bovingdon, manager Andy Landesberg said: “This is a good wake-up call for us. We can’t play thinking we are better than we are.”

Yuri Foreman steps back into the ring for the first time in two years on Friday night when he looks to become a two-time world champion. The 36-year-old, who was born in Belarus and moved to Israel as a child, won the super-welterweight title in 2009. He has since retired and become a rabbi, but is now set to face Erislandy Lara in Miami. With just two defeats in 34 fights, including 10ko, he says: “I’m really looking forward to showcasing my skills and talent and becoming a two-time world champion. At this stage of my career, it would be a tremendous accomplishment.”

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Jack’s the lad for Lions U21s London Lions U21s claimed a second MGBSFL scalp of the season as Jack Mattey’s hat-trick helped the club to a 4-0 win over Hertswood Vale and a place in the last 16 of the Peter Morrison Trophy. Jamie Barnett scored the fourth goal, with manager Joe Zender saying: “We kept the ball from minute one to 90 and frustrated the opposition. “Jack’s classy hat-trick along with Jamie’s screamer sent us through, while it was also good to secure a second consecutive clean sheet in the competition”. In the Premier Division, Oakwood A closed the gap on the leaders Hendon A, as two goals from Brad Wine saw them beat Camden Park 2-0. Manager Daniel Kristall said: “We now move on to a tricky test in Essex, before preparations begin for our showdown clash with Hendon at the end of the month.” London Lions A won 4-3 at champions Raiders A, Alex Taylor, Adam Arnold, Jamie Jackson and Ben Lampert all on target, while two goals from Josh Newman saw Brady to a 2-0 win over Woodford Wanderers. Four goals from Richard

Salmon helped FC Team A to a 6-2 win at SPEC. James Stanley and Danny Moss scored their other two goals. Redbridge B made it eight wins from eight to go clear at the top of Division One, thanks to a crushing 9-0 win over Los Blancos. Joe Jordan helped himself to a hat-trick, Sam Sollosi scored twice, with Sam Moss, Brad Gayer, Ryan Cole and Adam Goldman also all on target. Redbridge C are up into second spot in Division Two as Aaron Goldberg, Rafe Neiman and Barry Green all scored in their 3-2 win over Mill Hill Dons. Manager Josh Hambling said: “Overall I’m delighted with the performance after a below par end to the year. We have started 2017 just how I’d hoped.” Basement boys Boca Jewniors got the New Year off to a winning start as Josh Cinna and Jamie Leboff’s strike saw them beat Catford & Bromley 2-1. Assistant manager Anton Nyman said: “We’re hoping to start 2017 as we mean to go on.”

Jack Mattey scored a hat-trick for the Lions U21s

Sela falls just short of first ATP Tour final in two years

Day named Israeli athlete of 2016 Alon Day has been voted Israel’s Athlete of the Year for 2016 by the country’s Ministry of Culture and Sport. The first Israeli to compete on America’s NASCAR racing circuit, he said: “It’s a big achievement for me and for the Israeli motorsport movement to win this prize for the first time ever.”

Ghana coach Avram Grant could be heading for Australia at the end of the African Cup of Nations, which begins at the weekend. The Israelis contract with Ghana expires at the end of the tournament, with reports suggesting he could join Australian Hyundai A League side Melbourne City. The 61-year-old guided the Black Stars to the final in 2015, but has endured a strained relationship with the Ghanaian media since, coming in for criticism over a string of poor performances in their 2018 World Cup qualifiers. Sources close to City say they are keen on offering him a deal at the conclusion of the event in Gabon, with the Ghana FA not showing any signs of offering him an extension to his contract. Ghana begin their Cup of Nations campaign against Uganda on Tuesday.

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Dudi Sela’s preparations for next week’s Australian Open saw him come tantalisingly close to reaching his first ATP Tour final in more than two years. The Israeli number one, who’s ranked 96 in the world, was a point away from securing his place in the final of the Chennai Open in India. Taking on Russian Daniil Medvedev in his first ATP Tour semi-final since July 2014, the 31-year-old, won the first set 6-4 and found himself serving for the match in the 10th game of the second set. However, unable to convert the point, he lost the set on a tiebreak, before being comprehensively beaten in the third and final set 6-2. His final warm-up tournament is in Canberra, where he’s taking part in a Challenger event. Sela is the only Israeli to have qualified

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Continued from page 32 best players there are, and at the minute, Tottenham’s team are one of the best in Europe. We have three or four games before that, but to be on the same pitch as these players will be awesome and it will be nice to try and play our ‘A’ game if we can and then see where that takes us. “There haven’t been too many upsets in this year’s competition, so hopefully we can be one of those.” Elsewhere in the FA Cup, Brighton’s two Israelis, Beram Kayal and Tomer Hemed, both scored in their 2-0 win over MK Dons. They will travel to either Lincoln or Ipswich in the fourth round, with the ties set to be played between 27-30 January.

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GUY BEN AROYA (CATFORD & BROM) Denied Josh Cinna’s postage stamp effort by tipping his shot over the bar

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

NICHOLAS STERN (L’EQUIPE) “It’s a total disgrace especially when their B’s had no game either. We have never pulled out of a game in ten years and feel let down by what is supposed to be one of the best run clubs in the league.”

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Cyril Anekstein Cup Quarter-Final: London Lions A vs Hendon United A NL Raiders A vs Maccabi London Lions B Redbridge A vs Camden Park Scrabble vs Finchley City Premier Division: FC Team A vs Brady Maccabi Woodford Wanderers vs Oakwood A

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16 Goals: Jonti Aremband (RC UK FC) Jordan Sharifian (Temple Fortune) 15 Goals: Zac Lewis (Hendon United A) 13 Goals: Reiss Mogilner (Brady Maccabi) Oliver Sade (Finchley City) Max Martin (L’Equipe) Liron Mannie (NL Raiders A) 11 Goals: Michael Kenley (London Lions B) Matt Stock (NL Raiders A) 10 Goals: Joshua Bloom (London Lions B) Zach Cohen (Mill Hill Dons)

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MGBSFL Premier Division – Richard Salmon 4 (FC Team A) Division One – Joe Jordan (Redbridge Jewish Care B) Masters League Division One – Michael Abraham (London Lions) Division Two – Lloyd Nygate 6 (Glenthorne) Watford Friendly League U16 – Louis Perl (London Lions White) U12 – Josh Woolf 4 (Brady Blue), Louis Cooper 4 (Brady White), Daniel Neville (Hendon United White), Zane Appleson-Fidler (London Lions White) U11 – Coby Snyder (Hendon United Blue) U8 – Yehuda Rotenberg (Hendon United Blue), Emmauel Levey (Hendon Yellow) U7 – Ben Nissim 4, Yehuda Curtis 4 (both Hendon United Blue)

Division Two: Mill Hill Dons vs Real Hendon NL Raiders C vs Catford & Bromley RC UK FC vs Faithfold B Redbridge C vs L’Equipe

RESULTS

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Watford Friendly League – U18 Blue Division – Brady Blue 4 Hampstead FC 3 Green Division – Brady Red 9 Borehamwood 2000 0 U16 – London Lions White 8 Wheathampstead 2, Hendon 4 Hinton Revolution 4 Green Division – Brady Red 3 Oakhill Tigers Knights 1 White Division – Brady Blue 4 Alexandra Park South 1 U15 – Whetstone Pumas 2 London Lions White 3, London Lions Blue 3 HMH 6 White Division – Brady Blue 2 Belstone 1 Green Division – Alexandra Park South 4 Brady Black 3 U14 – Hadleywood & Wingate 5 London Lions Blue 1 U13 – London Lions Blue 4 Harvesters South 2, London Lions White 4 Whetstone Wanderers 3 Challenge Cup Third Round – Potters Bar Whites 8 Brady White 0 Yellow Division – Brady HGS 2 Oakhill Tigers Cobras 1 White Division – Hendon Netanya 3 Brady Red 1 U12 – AC Finchley South 0 London Lions Yellow 3, London Colney Blue 2 London Lions White 6, Borehamwood Youth Crusaders 6 London Lions Green 2, Hendon United 5 Whetstone Jaguars 2 Green Division – Brady Blue 5 Edmonton Rangers Sharks 3 Yellow Division – Brady Red 3 Omonia White 2

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WD 8 0 4 1 4 0 3 0 2 1 1 0

L Dif Pts 0 21 24 3 -1 13 2 8 12 5 -5 9 5 -12 7 7 11 3

London Maccabi Winchmore Hill Colney Heath North Greenford Abbey F.C. Garston F.C.Deportivo Galicia Latymer Old Boys

MMFL BOND MANAGEMENT DIV 2

EDRS Stonegrove 1 Brady Maccabi B 0 Glenthorne 7 Marshside 3 St John’s Wood 1 Hendon Harriers 0 P 8 10 8 8 10 8 8 8

W 7 5 4 5 3 3 1 1

D 1 1 3 0 3 1 1 0

L Dif Pts 0 27 22 4 10 16 1 9 15 3 6 15 4 -14 12 4 -3 10 6 -17 4 7 -18 3

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GARSTON VETS LEAGUE Middlesex County Cup: London Lions Garston 3 Holyport 4

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London Lions B St John’s Wood EDRS Stonegrove Glenthorne Marshside Temple Fortune Hendon Harriers Brady Maccabi B

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WD 4 0 3 0 2 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0

L Dif Pts 0 20 12 0 20 9 1 4 7 2 -8 6 5 -13 6 2 -6 4 2 -4 3 3 -13 0

ISRAELI LIGAT HA’AL

P W D L F Dif Pts Hapoel Beer-Sheva 17 12 3 2 41 33 39 Mac Petach-Tikva 17 7 8 2 23 5 29 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 16 8 4 4 26 12 28 Hap Kiryat Shmona 16 6 7 3 24 8 25 Maccabi Haifa 17 6 7 4 21 7 25 Beitar Jerusalem 17 5 8 4 20 -1 23 Bnei Sakhnin 17 5 7 5 15 -4 22 Hapoel Haifa 16 6 2 8 23 -4 20 Hapoel Ra’anana 16 4 6 6 9 -6 18 Ashdod 16 3 7 6 10 -8 16 Hapoel Kfar-Saba 16 3 6 7 13 -7 15 Bnei Yeh Tel-Aviv 16 2 7 7 12 -9 13 Hapoel Ashkelon 17 2 7 8 10 -19 13 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 16 3 7 6 12 -7 7 jewishnews.co.uk/category/sport/israeli/

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1 WILL MARTYN

5 JAMES LAW

9 SAM SOLLOSI

2 JOSH CIRRA

6 JOE JORDAN

10 RICHARD SALMON

3 ALEX TAYLOR

7 GUY HELMAN

4 DAVID COHEN

8 CRAIG PHILLIPS

BOCA JEWNIORS Brilliant between the sticks for Boca, pulled off several top stops to seal impressive win over Catford & Bromley

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23 Goals: Richard Fogelman (Faithfold B)

HAT-TRICK HEROES

Division One: Athletic Bilbaum vs Redbridge B Los Blancos vs NL Raiders B Oakwood B vs Hendon United B

TEAM OF THE WEEK

RYMAN LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION

21 Goals: Avi Markiewicz (RC UK FC)

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Faithfold A A London Lions B A Redbridge B 9 Los Blancos 0 Scrabble P Brixton Old Boys P

MGBFL GOALSCORERS

2016/2017 SEASON

BOCA JEWNIORS A rock at the back for Boca, helped stave off Catford attacks in the second half and even managed to get on the scoresheet

MACCABI LONDON LIONS A Brilliant at the back for the Lions, capped off performance by also getting on the scoresheet

OAKWOOD A Provided a solid platform for the O’s as they kept compact and resilient to take the points against Camden

REDBRIDGE JEWISH CARE C Provided both defensive strength and offensive threat as Redbridge claimed a win which saw them up into second spot

REDBRIDGE JEWISH CARE B Scored a fantastic hat-trick – three clinical finishes, and was at the heart of all the team’s great passing moves

OAKWOOD A Attacking midfielder did just that for the O’s as they claimed win to keep pace with Hendon at the top of the table

REDBRIDGE JEWISH CARE B Very impressive in a 45-minute cameo. Scored twice, claimed one assist and always looked dangerous FC TEAM A Scored four goals in side’s emphatic win as he’s beginning to show signs he’s almost back to his best

11 JACK MATTEY

LONDON LIONS U21 Recently turned 17-year-old was the star of the show as he netted a superb hat-trick as side claimed second

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

JACK MATTEY LONDON LIONS U21 REDBRIDGE JEWISH CARE C Put in a great shift as Essex men dug deep to hold on for the points in their five- MANAGER OF THE WEEK JOE ZENDER goal thriller against Mill Hill Dons LONDON LIONS U21

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Jewish News 12 January 2017

Sport / Brixton folds / Wycombe dream

Brix and mortified! Maccabi League in shock as oldest club folds after 62 years By Andrew Sherwood andrews@thejngroup.com @JewishNewsUK

Jewish football was in shock this week after its most established club, Brixton Old Boys, called time on its 62-year existence by quitting the league. Established in 1955, the club will go down as one of the most successful sides, currently holding the joint-record for most Premier Division wins – the first of their eight titles being in the 1962/63 season when they shared it with Hadassah. Nine-time winners of the Cyril Anekstein Cup – just two short of the all-time record, the club was also crowned Division Four champions twice, with the most recent silverware coming in the 1997/98 season with the Division One title. Chairman Robert Silverman said a lack of players meant he and club president Harold Baum “had little option”. A club statement read: “The club was formed in 1955 and this is the first time we have failed to complete a season. We are one of the most successful teams in the history of the league, but in recent years, players’ attitudes have changed. Fewer were willing or able to commit to playing on a regular basis and furthermore, it became increasingly difficult to collect funds from the players, meaning there has been a significant cash shortfall. “The club would like to thank the MGBSFL management committee for their support through a difficult period.” Believing their downfall isn’t the death knell of Jewish football, Silverman added: “It’s very difficult [to run a team nowadays],

but I think the league can continue. There are issues which don’t help. The increase of professional football being played on Sundays, midweek five–a-side football, injuries ahead of Sunday matches and Masters football now being reduced to over 35s hasn’t helped.” He did offer a glimmer of hope for the club, saying: “Our intention is to re-join the league next season, providing of course, we are able to assemble a complete squad of dedicated players.” League chairman David Wolff, upset by the latest loss, is nevertheless upbeat. He said: “It’s not all doom and gloom. It’s always very sad when any club is forced to fold, particularly one which has been as longstanding as Brixton. I think they’ve been on the brink for a while and full credit to Robert Silverman for trying to keep them going. “We still have 31 all-Jewish teams, which play in the community. Compared with the national trend, we’re doing better than average. I’d like to think new clubs will form this summer.”  Reviews, pictures and video at jewishnews.co.uk

Happier times: Brixton players in celebratory mood (above), and taking part in their ninth and final Cyril Anekstein Cup final win back in 1986 (inset)

Wycombe duo relishing Spurs tie

Wycombe’s Scott Kashket

Wycombe Wanderers duo Scott Kashket and Joe Jacobson can’t wait to take on Tottenham Hotspur in the fourth round of the FA Cup. The tie will hold extra significance for Kashket, who is a Spurs supporter. The 20-year-old, who last week was voted the League Two Player of the Month for December, told Jewish News: “As a Spurs fan, it’s a game I always wanted to play, in a stadium I always wanted to play in, and with most of my family being fans too, it will be interesting!” Delighted with the draw, he said: “It’s brilliant, not just to get Tottenham, but one of the big Premier League teams and one of the best in the country. “You’ve got to go there, think it’s one game in the FA Cup and anything can happen. To test yourself against teams like that is something you want to do as a player, but we can’t get too carried away as we have

other games to play first of all.” Wycombe booked their place in the fourth round thanks to a 2-1 victory over non-league side Stourbridge. Creating the winning goal in the win, Jacobson is now hoping the side can cause an upset. The 30-year-old told Jewish News: “You have to believe you can go there and cause a shock. “Obviously, we’re massive underdogs, they have a wealth of talent and riches and it’s going to be a ridiculously tough game, but you have to go there with belief that you can get something out of the game. You don’t want to go there and just be there for the sake of it, to make up the numbers, you want to make everyone proud, give your all and test yourselves against these great players – and try and do something like Plymouth did against Liverpool on Sunday.” He added: “You want to play against the very Continued on page 30

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