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New Bury South MP talks of 'massive learning curve' during CFI trip to Israel

Conservative MP Christian Wakeford said he was left inspired by visit to initiative involving Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem

February 27, 2020 14:58
Christian Wakeford (second from left) during his CFI-organised trip to Israel
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The Conservative MP for Bury South has said his first ever visit to Israel was a “massive learning curve” and that a visit to a business initiative in Jerusalem aimed at empowering the lives of both Jews and Arabs left him inspired.

Christian Wakeford, who replaced former Labour minister Ivan Lewis as MP for the area at December’s general election, travelled to the Jewish state for the first time as a part of a delegation with the Conservative Friends of Israel.

The politician told the JC: “For me it was highly important that I actually went to Israel, to actually be able to say I have been to the Western Wall, to the Holy City and elsewhere — to places that a lot of my Jewish constituents hold very dear.”

In an exhaustive schedule the delegation visited Yad Vashem; Magen David Adom, Israel’s national ambulance and medical emergency service; and met political experts at Hebrew University to learn about the electoral system.