Last Sunday, 2nd December 2018, the ZF, in partnership with We Believe in Israel, hosted its annual Activate for Israel seminar. Attended by over 100 activists, the audience heard from key voices such as Emanuel Miller who spoke about ethics in the IDF and Hen Mazzig,...

ZIONIST FEDERATION OF THE UK AND IRELAND  PRESS RELEASE 03/12/2018      Zionist Federation holds 120th AGM  At the Danubius Hotel in London’s Regents Park, the Zionist Federation held its latest Biennial conference, almost 120 years after the founding of the then...

A little over 3 weeks ago, the ZF ran another of its activist trips to Israel. With most of the 30-strong delegation arriving at Ben Gurion airport in the early hours of a Sunday morning, a bus took them to Haifa where they spent the next two nights. For those who...

Last night the Zionist Federation were privileged and honoured to have hosted guest speaker, former Member of Knesset and political commentator Dr Einat Wilf, to deliver this year’s Balfour Lecture, marking 101 years since the signing of the Balfour Declaration. Held...

This past week, the ZF, in partnership with the South African Zionist Federation, hosted two young South African men from Africans for Peace. Nkululeko Nkosi & Klaas Masilo Mokgomole are outspoken activists against the slur of “apartheid” as levelled against...

The idea of “Zionism” is so often seen as a topic to be avoided, particularly on British university campuses. But the Zionist Federation have been, and always will be proud to use the “Z” word, bringing expertise, education and engagement to those who support the...

This week the Zionist Federation of the UK and Ireland joined forces with the World Zionist Organisation’s UK delegation headed by Itzhak Sonnenschein, to celebrate the 100thanniversary of the birth of Israel’s 6thPresident, Chaim Herzog. Born in Belfast, and shortly...

The seemingly relentless media focus on Israel and its associated bias carries with it a challenge for spokespeople to be able to present the facts about Israel in an oft-hostile environment. It was to this end that this past Wednesday evening, 5th September, the ZF...

This week the Zionist Federation was proud to host Fleur Hassan-Nahoum for a UK and Ireland speaking tour. Showing the ZF's commitment to being a truly national organisation the trip focused predominantly outside of London, and included Dublin, in the Republic of...

Earlier this week, in a television interview on Palestinian TV, Hamas Official Salah Al-Bardawil says that of the “62 people [who] were martyred, 50 of them were Hamas”. Salah Al-Bardawil is listed as a member of the “interior Relations Department” of the “Political...

Article written by Paul Charney, Chairman of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland If you‘ve been keeping up with the Jewish news in the last few days, you might well have come away with the impression that our recent gala dinner was something of a...

The term start-up nation is now synonymous with Israel. Whilst it’s all very good and heart-warming to read about it, it’s even better to hear from those in the know about how Israel has made the desert bloom and been a light unto the nations. A small but...