Ahead of Balfour 100, UK enshrines Churchill’s headstrong case for Israel

A new permanent exhibition highlights the British PM’s unflinching support for the Jewish state — even under heavy pressure from his government

He lobbied Franklin Roosevelt, reminding him: “I am strongly wedded to the Zionist policy, of which I was one of the authors.”

At a tree-planting ceremony on the site of the future Hebrew University at Mount Scopus, Churchill declared: “Personally, my heart is full of sympathy for Zionism.”

The Times of Israel, 2017