A major US Jewish group in the US has called on Newsweek to take action to “save the integrity of its hard-earned journalist brand from bigots and propagandists, in a reference to repeated anti-Israel hostility of the magazine’s Middle East edition.
Israeli passengers on an Air Serbia flight from Belgrade International Airport to Tel Aviv refused to board the plane when they heard through the gate announcement that the flight was going to ‘’Palestine’’.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of World Jewish Congress (WJC) leaders on Sunday that despite the perception that Israel is isolated, there had been a dramatic expansion of relations with countries recently, including in the Arab world, something that would have been inconceivable just five years ago.
‘’I thank the Czech government for making the right decision and not surrendering to lies and the wild incitement of the Palestinians,” said Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat following the decision of the Czech government not to remove Jerusalem as Israel’s capital from the Czech school atlas.
Christians, Jews and Muslims are uniting in an unprecedented and potentially historic interfaith prayer and spiritual gathering in Jerusalem called “Amen – A House of Prayer For All Believers.”
A Belgian government official who said Israel was “an identical twin” of the Islamic State terrorist group and compare the Jewish State to ‘’a modern Nazi Germany,’’ was forced to resign as a minister’s adviser on diversity.
-Relations between Greece and Israel, the threat posed by extreme-right Golden Dawn party, the security of the Jewish community and anti-Semitism were high on the agenda of talks the World Jewish Congress (WJC) leaders held in Athens with Greek government officials.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to the Netherlands on Tuesday for meetings with the country’s leaders as he is trying to convince Europe that the Israel is a key player in efforts to stem a rising tide of Islamic terrorism.
