After the U.S., the Jewish state’s closest collaborator in matters of security and intelligence-sharing is the United Kingdom—which is also its third-largest trading partner. Thus the position of ambassador to the court of Saint James is an important one. It has since August of last year been held by Tzipi Hotovely, the child of immigrants from Soviet Georgia and a devout Jew, who previously served for eleven years as a Knesset member for the Likud party. In a wide-ranging conversation with Eli Spitzer, Hotovely discusses Anglo-Jewish relations, the future of the ḥaredi community in Israel, the British media, a virtual audience with Queen Elizabeth, and the ways Israeli politics really do end at the water’s edge. (Audio, 45 minutes.)
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