Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett coming to speak in Canada this week despite a pending court case accusing him of being a war criminal

Wants to heal the ‘rift’ between Israelis and the Diaspora: Bennett
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

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. […]
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Renan Levine on the Israeli election: Israel’s centre of gravity has shifted to the right
The political landscape in Israel often shifts at the start of an election campaign, but the changes in the last few weeks have been especially dramatic.
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.
Police evacuating Amona outposts met by hundreds of protesters

Police and security officers evacuating homes in the West Bank outpost of Amona were greeted by hundreds of activists, including some throwing stones.
Canada unlikely to follow a U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem, observers say
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump might well make good on his pledge to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but that won’t put pressure on Canada to do the same, feels a former Canadian ambassador to Israel
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