President Rivlin is on an official visit to Ukraine during which he will participate in the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre.
Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, USC Shoah Foundation has published a new IWitness activity about Babi Yar and has begun leading a brand-new IWalk at the historic site in Kyiv.
The City of Paris inaugurated this week a Simon and Cyla Wiesenthal Square, to the memory of Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005) who devoted his life to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice and his spouse, Cyla.
The European Union's top court has recommended the rejection of an appeal by the Council of EU Member States against a lower EU court’s decision in 2014 to remove Hamas, the Palestinian islamist group that controls Gaza and Sri Lankan rebel group Tamil Tigers from the EU list of banned terrorist organizations due to a lack of evidence.
In 1987,Rabbi Sitruk was appointed as France’s Chief Rabbi, a position he held for 21 years until 2008, winning reelection twice for the seven-year position.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton affirmed ‘’her opposition to any attempt by external forces to impose a solution, including the UN Security Council’’, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday in New York.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that under a Trump administration ‘’there will be extraordinary strategic, technological, military and intelligence cooperation between the two countries,’’ when he met Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York
A pro-Israel group fighting the BDS (Boycott,Divestment, Sanctions) movement in Spain has booked a new success after a court freezed a resolution against Israel by the City Council of Santa Eulalia on the island of Ibiza.
‘’I invite you (Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas) to speak to the Israeli people at the Knesset in Jerusalem. And I would gladly come to speak to the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah,’’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
US President Barack Obama and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated the strong bilateral ties between the two countries during a meeting in New York, the first between the two men since November 2015.
