Senior UK rabbis express support for settlement sanctions

Intelligence summary

Prominent rabbis in the UK have come out in support of British sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements after the country’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said the move represented a “dark day for British Jews,” The Guardian reported. Jonathan Wittenberg of Masorti Judaism said he was present in the Palestinian village of Umm Al-Khair in Hebron as Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, who is Jewish, delivered his speech announcing the sanctions. “What is taking place today in the West Bank is a Chillul H