Overview

• Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for the diaspora and combating anti‑Semitism, invited the British activist to visit in mid‑October and praised him as a British patriot and a friend of Israel.
• Tommy Robinson said he will accept and travel after his Oct. 13 trial, adding that Israel will cover his flight and hotel and framing the trip as an act of solidarity.
• The invitation closely follows the attack near Manchester’s Heaton Park synagogue in which two people were killed on Yom Kippur.
• Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, condemned the Manchester killings and said UK authorities have failed to curb a growing wave of antisemitism.
• Robinson, a former English Defence League leader, recently fronted a London march where 26 police officers were injured and he remains a polarising figure with recent prison time and ongoing harassment charges, including a separate trial scheduled for October 2026.