Sunak hosts Netanyahu amid disquiet over Israel’s rightwing coalition

Chief rabbi calls for unity among British Jews as protests planned at visit of Israeli prime minister

Rishi Sunak will meet Benjamin Netanyahu in Downing Street on Friday, amid calls for him to do more to distance the UK from the Israeli prime minister and the extremism of his rightwing coalition government.

The chief rabbi in London, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, writing in the Jewish Chronicle, called for unity among British Jews as demonstrators prepared to gather in central London to protest at the visit.