Foreign secretary Dominic Raab has criticized Israel’s “disproportionate use of force” but defended Gaza blockade; distant family said to have come to pre-state Israel

With British prime minister Boris Johnson currently recovering after a three-day stint in intensive care with COVID-19, the United Kingdom, for the moment at least, has a stand-in leader of half-Jewish origin.

Dominic Raab, 46, is the son of a Czech Jewish refugee who came to England on the Kindertransport in 1938 as a six-year-old and a mother who raised him in the Church of England.

The foreign secretary has in the past brought up the subject of his Jewish origins on several occasions including in a May, 2019, article in the Daily Mail in which he shared photos of his father Peter.

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