On 5th November the Conservative Middle East Council facilitated a meeting between Conservative Parliamentarians and a cross party group of Israeli Members of the Knesset at the House of Commons. David Lidington MP, Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister and Brooks Newmark MP, Opposition Whip for Foreign Affairs, met with the visiting delegation. The group consisted of MK Moshe Kahlon (Likud,  Minister of Communications), MK Yakov Margi (Shas, Minister of Religious Services), MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beiteinu), MK Shai Hermesh (Kadima) and David Glass, a Jerusalem lawyer and political negotiator.

The group were visiting the UK as part of a programme organised by Forward Thinking which aims to increase dialogue between key Israeli and Palestinian stakeholders based on the belief that a durable peace agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be achieved through the active participation of those who are regarded either as political or religious hardliners. The meeting provided an opportunity for the MKs to express the challenges and opportunities they face whilst seeking a just and fair solution to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict.

David Lidington MP stated after the meeting that: