Irene Helen Naftalin

Irene Naftalin at the 10th Anniversary conference of Glasgow Friends of Israel in May 2025. She was quoted by the Israeli embassy as saying that “It’s an enormous achievement of courage and tenacity.”

Irene Helen Naftalin (nee Naftalin b 1948 in Hillhead.) in Glasgow in 1975.

Married David Lawrence Woolfson (born on December 10 1951, in Edmonton, London, England, UK. - May 1987, at age 35 in Harrow, London, England, UK.) They later divorced. Children:

• Robert George Woolfson (b December 1977, Manchester)
• Andrew Jonathan Woolfson (b 1979)

Timeline

• 2013 - British shoppers will be encouraged to buy Israeli products next week as part of an initiative to counter boycott campaigns. Dates, fruit, olives and wines are expected to be among the items that Israel supporters add to their shopping trolleys and baskets. It is hoped that Buy Israeli Goods Week, starting on Monday, will nullify the efforts of anti-Israel activists who are expected to lobby Sainsbury’s next month in an attempt to see Israeli products removed from the chain’s stores. The pro-Israel scheme — dubbed a “buycott” — has been co-ordinated by Stand With Us, the Zionist Federation, the Board of Deputies and the Fair Play Campaign Group.

Irene Naftalin, Stand With Us community director, said customers should tell supermarket staff “how much they value the opportunity to buy Israeli goods in their stores”. ZF chairman Paul Charney said: “Sainsbury’s has so far resisted the boycotters’ call. We need to do everything possible to ensure this boycott attack fails completely.”

Affiliations

• Glasgow Friends of Israel
• StandWithUs UK - Community Director circa 2013.
• https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/Pz25xSMo0p6O-eFIc34m9xVI2Gk/appointments
• Manchester Metropolitan University

See also

• Woolfson family | Naftalin family

Resources

• https://archive.ph/04dwy