Joint List MKs to Skip Knesset Tribute to Balfour Centenary Today
Joint List lawmakers will not be attending today’s ceremony in the Knesset to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration which was issued on November 2, 1917. Exactly a century ago today, then-UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour conveyed in writing to UK Jewish leader Lord Walter Rothschild that the British government views “with favour…