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| July 1, 2019
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British Home Secretary, visits Western Wall 19 years after last Minister

This trip by the British Home Secretary Sajid Javid to the Western Wall comes 19 years after the last British government minister visited that part of Jerusalem.

BY ALEX WINSTON

 

Sajid Javid, British Home Secretary, visited the Western Wall on Monday morning during his latest visit to Israel.

The trip by the Home Secretary comes 19 years after the last British government minister visited Jerusalem and the Western Wall.

Javid met with Director General of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, Mordechai Eliav, who told Javid about the history of the place and its importance as the center of Jewish longing for Jerusalem throughout the generations. Continue Reading »

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| June 10, 2015
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UK’s new business minister blasts BDS promoters & promising to expand trade with Israel

Business Secretary Javid, “I do not believe in boycotts, nor, I am proud to say, does my party, my prime minister or, for the most, part my country.”

By JERRY LEWIS

 

LONDON – Newly appointed Business Secretary Sajid Javid condemned Britain’s National Union of Students on Monday for supporting a boycott of Israel, declaring bluntly that the group’s recent move to join the BDS movement was not only an isolated view, but one that the government and most of the country did not share.

UK BUSINESS SECRETARY Sajid Javid speaks at the UK Israel Business annual awards dinner on Monday.

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