Israel’s Diaspora minister Amichai Chikli urges Canada to move its embassy to Jerusalem as he addresses Christian evangelists, politicians and Jewish community leaders during a four-day visit

Amichai Chikli

Israel’s new Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli took a swipe at the Trudeau government’s long-standing refusal to move its Canadian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem when he visited Ottawa May 31. Chikli was speaking to a group of mainly Christian politicians on Parliament Hill during his inaugural four-day visit to Canada. […]

The two sides of Benjamin Netanyahu

Many believe Benjamin Netanyahu is keeping Israel from falling off the edge of a precipice. Others say he is ripping the Jewish world apart.

YOUR DAILY SPIEL FOR Tuesday, July 11

Israel’s Labour party elects a new leader, rabbis in Canada make Israel’s Chief Rabbinate’s “blacklist” and American and Palestinian representatives sit down to discuss peace.

The historical rift between Israeli and Diaspora Jews

The Israeli government’s recent decision to freeze a plan to expand a prayer space that can be used by men and women of all denominations at the Western Wall, in order to appease the ultra-Orthodox parties in the Knesset, may create an irreversible rift in the relations between the State of Israel and world Jewry.

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