The Friends of Israel Initiative

Friends of Israel Initiative

The Friends of Israel Initiative is an international effort, to "seek to counter the attempts to delegitimize the State of Israel and its right to live in peace within safe and defensible borders", initiated and led by former Prime Minister of Spain and People's Party leader José María Aznar in...

 is an international initiative to defend Israel as a crucial bulwark of Western values.

Friends of Israel are groups within the three main British political parties that promote close ties between Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. They refer to:

• Labour Friends of Israel
  Labour Friends of Israel
  Labour Friends of Israel is a lobby group promoting support within the British Labour Party for a strong bilateral relationship between Britain and Israel. It also seeks to strengthen ties between the British and the Israeli Labour party...
  
  
• Conservative Friends of Israel
  Conservative Friends of Israel
  Conservative Friends of Israel, abbreviated to CFI, is a British parliamentary group affiliated to the Conservative Party and dedicated to strengthening business, cultural and political ties between the United Kingdom and Israel. CFI is an unincorporated associationIt was founded by the late...
  
  
• Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel
  Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel
  Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel is a group whose stated objective is to 'maximise support for the State of Israel within the British Liberal Democrat Party', and to 'promote policies which lead to peace and security for Israel within a Middle East peace settlement'.President of Liberal Democrat...
  
  

Roman Catholic Church

It can also refer to the Opus sacerdotale Amici Israel

Opus sacerdotale Amici Israel

The Opus sacerdotale Amici Israel was an international Roman Catholic association founded in Rome in February 1926. Its purpose was to pray for the conversion of the Jews and to promote a favorable attitude towards them within the Roman Catholic Church. In the first year of its existence, this...

, a Roman Catholic interfaith association which existed from 1926 to 1928.