Webinar: The Relationship between Courts and Parliaments

UKLFI Charitable Trust and B’nei Brith Canada David Matas Law Society invite you to a webinar on The Relationship between Courts and Parliaments with Prof Ryan Alford  and Natasha Hausdorff, chaired by Sam Goldstein on Sunday 2 April 2023 at 7pm UK time (9pm Israel, 8pm Europe, 2pm Canada / US

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Webinar: Judicial Review in Israel and the UK

UKLFI Charitable Trust  held a webinar on Judicial Review in Israel and the UK with Stephen Hockman KC and Prof Eugene Kontorovich, chaired by Natasha Hausdorff on Tuesday 14 February. Israel’s Justice Minister, MK Yariv Levin, has announced plans for major judicial reforms in Israel. These include enabling the Knesset,

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Albert Levy appointed as Trustee of UKLFI Charitable Trust

We are delighted to announce that Albert Levy has been appointed as a Trustee of UKLFI Charitable Trust. Albert is a retired solicitor, who worked for the majority of his career at Ince & Co in the fields of ship finance, property and private client. He specialised latterly in matters

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Webinar: Two States for Two Peoples?

UKLFI Charitable Trust held a webinar on “Two States for Two Peoples? - The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, International Law and EU Policy with Andrew Tucker and Prof Dr Wolfgang Bock and chaired by  Natasha Hausdorff on Thursday 19th January 2023. In this webinar Prof Dr Wolfgang Bock and thinc director Andrew

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Lord Young Obituary

We are sad to report the passing on 8 December 2022 of Lord Young z’’l, an Honorary Patron of UK Lawyers for Israel and UKLFI Charitable Trust. David Ivor Young was born on 27 February 1932, the son of a Jewish Lithuanian flour merchant. He read Law at University College,

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Webinar: Institutional Investors, Israel Boycotts, and American Law

UKLFI Charitable Trust iheld a webinar on "Institutional Investors, Israel Boycotts, and American Law”  with Professor David H Webber of Boston University, Chaired by Natasha Hausdorff on 19 December 2022 . Activists hostile to Israel are increasingly pressing institutional investors to divest from Israeli companies or companies that maintain links

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Webinar: Moving the British Embassy to Jerusalem

UKLFI Charitable Trust hosted a webinar on "Moving the British Embassy to Jerusalem"  with Professor Avi Bell, chaired by Natasha Hausdorff on Thursday 20 October 2022. The former UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss, stated that the government will review the possibility of moving the British Embassy to Jerusalem. This has

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Webinar: The Trojan Bourse

UKLFI Charitable Trust hosted a webinar entitled "The Trojan Bourse" with Dan Harris and chaired by Natasha Hausdorff  on Thursday 8 September 2022. Dan Harris, a leading specialist in the financial markets, will be talking about his new book, “The Trojan Bourse” which  analyses how the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions

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Webinar: The Ben & Jerry’s Saga

UKLFI Charitable Trust held a webinar entitled The Ben & Jerry’s Saga with Prof Jesse Fried and chaired by Jacob Turner on  Tuesday 23 August 2022. Last year Ben & Jerry’s, a subsidiary of Unilever, decided its ice cream should no longer be sold in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories” (East

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Webinar: League of Nations Mandate Centenary

UKLFI Charitable Trust organised a webinar marking the League of Nations Mandate Centenary with Professor Steven Zipperstein, chaired by Jonathan Turner on Thursday 21 July, 2022 . It featured a special introduction by The President of the State of Israel, His Excellency Isaac Herzog. The Council of the League of

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