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Marcus Dysch

ByMarcus Dysch, Marcus Dysch

Opinion

Jewishly, David’s ahead of Ed

December 17, 2013 16:17
2 min read

There’s a joke doing the rounds about the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition: one is a committed Zionist, eager to visit Israel and totally at ease in the company of British Jews; the other is Ed Miliband.

There will be plenty of talk during the next 18 months about the possibility of Britain electing Mr Miliband as our first halachically Jewish Prime Minister since Disraeli.

But some would argue that the current occupant of the country’s best-known terraced home may be the closest thing to a nice yiddishe boy as we are likely to get — David Cameron’s apparent fascination with Jewish life can no longer be ignored.

He is determined to deepen his understanding of the Jewish world and has confirmed he will travel to both Auschwitz and Israel in 2014.