Despite being just 0.46 per cent – 271,000 of the British population, seven key ministers in Rishi Sunak’s government are either Jewish, descended from Jews, or married to Jews. Jews comprise a massive one-third of Britain’s Westminster regime. After arriving at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday, Rishi Sunak began the task of appointing around 140 Conservative MPs and Lords to positions on the government payroll, something that has taken most of the week.

His choices for 22 key cabinet posts have been the subject of many headlines, with untouchable Suella Braverman’s reappointment causing controversy after she was sacked as home secretary just six days prior for what has been described as a really serious breach of security protocols. In the meanwhile, the new prime minister – elected by cronies, not the electorate – has continued to fill both the key posts at the top of government, as well as the positions much lower on the rungs of the ministerial ladder.

Grant Shapps, who is Jewish, made headlines after Braverman’s sacking when he was brought in as her replacement, but that only lasted a matter of days when Sunak brought Braverman back and shifted Shapps over to the role of business secretary. Meanwhile, Jewish MP Robert Halfon has also been appointed to the government, as have fellow members of the tribe, Lucy Frazer and Dominic Raab. As the government begins its work combatting the many difficulties currently facing the UK population, here is a full list of the Jewish movers and shakers in government.

Another untouchable Dominic Raab – Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Justice has made a return to government in two of the roles he previously held under Boris Johnson – Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Justice. After being first elected to Parliament in 2010, Raab has also held the roles of Brexit Secretary, Foreign Secretary, and Lord Chancellor. Raab is the son of a Czech-Jewish refugee (and ‘holocaust survivor’) who arrived in the UK in 1938 at the age of six. The Deputy Prime Minister also spent a brief period as a volunteer at Kibbutz Sarid in Northern Israel before studying law at Oxford University.

Raab told the Jewish Chronicle in 2020 of his ‘pride’ in his family’s Jewish ancestry. He claims – without proof that his family perished in the holocaust. Raab said the loss of his father and the deaths of large numbers of his family in the Shoah had made him appreciate what was ‘precious in life.’

Grant Shapps – Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has also been appointed to Rishi Sunak’s cabinet, heading up the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He had become the home secretary following Suella Braverman’s forced resignation from Liz Truss’s regime. Shapps had joined the ranks of several other Jews to serve as Home Secretary, after previously serving as Transport Secretary under Boris Johnson, before being fired after allegations of him using alter egos to shape his online image.

A former B’nai B’right Youth organisation. Shapps told the JC in a 2010 interview, that he was totally Jewish saying: ‘I don’t eat pork, we only buy kosher meat and we don’t mix meat and milk. I like being Jewish and I married a Jewish girl. It’s like a way of life and it’s good to be able to instil some of that sense of being in your kids.’

Lucy Frazer – Minister of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has been appointed by the prime minister to be a minister in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, which is being led once again by long-time cabinet minister Michael Gove. Frazer was elected as a Tory MP in 2015 and did an internship at Israel’s Ministry of Justice soon after she graduated from Cambridge. She is descended from Jewish immigrants. In her maiden speech in the House of Commons in 2015, Frazer said: ‘My great-grandparents fled to this country with nothing and Britain gave them a home.

Robert Halfon – Minister of State in the Department for Education has been appointed for a second stint as a minister in the Department for Education, which is now led by Gillian Keegan. Halfon was born to Jewish parents: his mother, Jennifer, is of Ashkenazi descent, while his father, Clement, is a Libyan Jew from a Sephardic family who now lives in Israel. His paternal grandfather, Renato Halfon, was an Italian-Jewish clothing oligarch living in Libya until he was forced to leave Liya in 1968, after which he joined Clement in England.

Halfon worked for a number of Conservative MPs before entering parliament and held the post of political director for Conservative Friends of Israel. Since entering parliament as the MP for Harlow in 2010, and has served in a number of parliamentary roles, including the Liaison Committee (Commons), Education Committee, and the Public Administration Select Committee. He has also served in a number of government roles, including PPS to then-chancellor George Osbourne, Minister without Portfolio (attending Cabinet) and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. He also served as a minister in the Department for Education from July 2016 to June 2017 when he was sacked by then-prime minister Theresa May. In 2011, Halfon told the Jewish Telegraph that one of the three things that motivate him in politics is ‘unashamed support for the State of Israel, as the only real democracy and progressive force in the Middle East’(sic).

He added: ‘I have always been very supportive of Israel. I have been to Israel many times for work and family, especially now that my father, who has become more Orthodox, lives in Jerusalem. I talk a lot about Israel in the House of Commons.’

Tom Tugendhat – Minister of State for Security has been re-appointed Minister of State for Security in the government of Rishi Sunak, after being first appointed to the role by Liz Truss, who defeated him in the early rounds of the summer’s Tory leadership election. Tugendhat’s Jewish grandfather grew up in Vienna and left shortly after the First World War, coming to Britain to study in the 1920s. He eventually ‘converted’ to Catholicism in order – to marry his wife. He claims he was subjected to antisemitism at the 2019 general election: ‘It was a campaign that wasn’t as always as clean as previous ones. For the first time, I faced antisemitism, which I found rather distasteful.

Suella Braverman – Home Secretary is not Jewish herself (she is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Community), but she is married to a man who she described last year as a ‘very proud member of the Jewish community’. Rael Braverman and Suella met through a shared love of politics, and their first date was her giving him a tour of parliament, which he described as unusual.

Her family contributes to the Bushey Synagogue, and at an Asian-Jewish Business Network dinner last year, she said: ‘We are fans in my household of Larry David and Jackie Mason. I’m the number one supporter of Friday night dinners at my husband’s family – including chicken schnitzel.’ She also said that she had been ‘struck by the tangible energy and passion’ of Israelis while visiting the Jewish state.

Robert Jenrick – Minister of State for Immigration is not Jewish but he is married to Michal Berkner, who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. If there are so many (millions) of survivors who actually did the ‘Nazis’ kill? She was born in Israel and educated in the USA, and the couple are raising their three daughters in the Jewish faith.

Jenrick was first elected in a 2014 by-election in the Parliamentary constituency of Newark after the sitting MP resigned following a lobbying scandal. He sat on the backbenches until January 2018 when he was appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury by Prime Minister Theresa May.

In June 2019, he represented the British government at the Israel-Palestine peace initiative, led by former US President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Jenrick is also an active member of Conservative Friends of Israel and wants to move the British embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, telling a 2020 reception: ‘As Housing Secretary I don’t like land-banking. I want us to build that embassy.’

In 2019, he was appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, and in that role, he said: ‘I want to tackle antisemitism and ensure that the Jewish community feels protected and respected to be one of my priorities as Secretary of State.’

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On antisemitism in education, Jenrick is a strong proponent of the IHRA definition of antisemitism: ‘I will use my position as Secretary of State to write to all universities and local authorities to insist that they adopt the IHRA definition at the earliest opportunity… and use it when considering matters such as disciplinary procedures. Failure to act in this regard is unacceptable.’ Jenrick has also worked to build the controversial Westminster Holocaust Memorial next to parliament, receiving death threats and antisemitic abuse as a result of his work.

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