Trade unionists from Britain and Australia have taken part in a joint tour of Israel and the West Bank.
British unions, including the Prison Officers Association, Bakers Food and Allied Workers’ Union, GMB and USDAW, sent 17 delegates on last week’s four-day trip organised by Trade Union Friends of Israel (Tufi).
They visited Jerusalem, the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, the Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank, and held a meeting with Ofer Eini, the chairman of the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labour.
Mr Eini praised Tufi for leading the delegation at a time of violence between Israel and Hamas. Two members of the group had pulled out of the tour citing security fears.