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Cern accelerator: Switzerland is not an EU state, but Israeli scientists fear losing contact with Europe (Photo: Andre Goerres)

Israeli MP: EU action shows Israel is becoming 'pariah'

An MP from Israel's second largest party has warned that settlement-building risks cutting off Israel from the West.

Ofer Shelah, a Knesset deputy from the centrist Yesh Atid party, a key member of Israel's ruling coalition, whose leader, Yair Lapid, is the country's new finance minister, made the statement in Hebrew on his Facebook page on Wednesday (14 August).

Referring to new EU guidelines which block funding for Israeli entities which operate on Palestinian land, he said: "T...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Cern accelerator: Switzerland is not an EU state, but Israeli scientists fear losing contact with Europe (Photo: Andre Goerres)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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