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'''Ruth Kennedy''' was director of the [[Centre for Israel and Scotland Relations]] (also called the Centre for Scotland and Israel Relations), the Scottish office of the [[Embassy of Israel, London|Embassy of Israel]] in the United Kingdom.

==Centre for Israel and Scotland Relations==
In a 2019 article, [[Mick Napier]] of the [[Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign]] wrote that the centre was headed by Kennedy when it organised a "political training day" in the Glasgow area in August 2015, attended by [[Eitan Na'eh]] of the Israeli Embassy and an Israeli government minister.<ref name="SPSC">[[Mick Napier]], [https://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/israeli-embassy-ran-a-glasgow-anti-bds-workshop/ "Attendance at Israeli Embassy Glasgow anti-BDS workshop"], [[Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign]], 15 June 2019, accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>

On 25 February 2016, during a [[Scottish Parliament]] debate on a motion about the Culture for Coexistence open letter, [[Jackson Carlaw]] welcomed to the public gallery "Ruth Kennedy of the centre for Scotland and Israel relations", along with Eitan Na'eh and [[Stanley Lovatt]].<ref name="HOLY">[[Scottish Parliament]], [https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament/meeting-of-parliament-25-02-2016?iob=95614&meeting=10386 Official Report: Meeting of the Parliament, 25 February 2016], accessed 29 October 2026.</ref> A ''[[The Herald|Herald]]'' column by [[Ken Smith]] on the Glasgow celebration of Israel's 68th Independence Day, organised by Lovatt, described her as "director of the Centre for Scotland and Israel Relations" and reported her remarks on Israeli technology.<ref name="HERALD">[[Ken Smith]], [https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14511571.celebrating-independence-day-glasgow/ "Celebrating Independence Day in Glasgow"], ''[[The Herald]]'', accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>

She attended the 21 June 2017 meeting of the Scottish Parliament's [[Cross-Party Group on Building Bridges with Israel]] for the centre. The minutes record that she told the group that the [[Women's International Zionist Organization]] would be in Aberdeen in the coming months and hoped to exhibit its work in the Scottish Parliament.<ref name="CPG2017">[https://docslib.org/doc/1212659/minutes-of-the-cross-party-group-on-building-bridges-with-israel-meeting-of-the-21st-june-2017 "Minutes of the Cross-Party Group on Building Bridges with Israel Meeting of the 21st June 2017"], copy on DocsLib, accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>

In September 2020 [[Christina Jones]] wrote that she had taken over as director of the centre from "my predecessor Ruth Kennedy".<ref name="GJRC2020">[[Glasgow Jewish Representative Council]], [https://www.jewishglasgow.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GJRC-September-Newsletter.pdf ''Newsletter''], September 2020, accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>

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	'''Ruth Kennedy''' was director of the [[Centre for Israel and Scotland Relations]] (also called the Centre for Scotland and Israel Relations), the Scottish office of the [[Embassy of Israel, London\|Embassy of Israel]] in the United Kingdom.		'''Ruth Kennedy''' was director of the [[Centre for Israel and Scotland Relations]] (also called the Centre for Scotland and Israel Relations), the Scottish office of the [[Embassy of Israel, London\|Embassy of Israel]] in the United Kingdom.

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