The European Union has again criticized Israel for its decision to advance several hundred new settlement units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and urged Jerusalem ‘’to stop this policy and to reverse its recent decision.’
Kenya’s President said his country will work to restore Israel’s observer status at the 54-member African Union, as he met with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
British Labour part leader Jeremy Corbyn expressed some regret for having described members of terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah as “friends,” as he appeared at the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee of inquiry into anti-Semitism.
''I call upon the leaders of all Jewish communities around Europe to do whatever they can and execute all of their influence, in order to prevent any other countries from leaving the EU,'' said Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal, Rabbi of the Jewish community of Berlin.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue to fight terror wherever it may be and called on the world to condemn the murder of a 13 year-old girl by a Palestinian terrorist in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron,a‘’ just as they condemned the terror attacks in Brussels and Orlando.’’
There is no future for Jews in France, Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) said in Paris during a meeting of the organization’s Board of Governors.
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder expressed shock and outrage at the terror attacks at Istanbul Atatürk Airport on Tuesday evening.
Last week saw the graduation of young ladies from the Machon Chamesh Jewish Institute in Moscow, who received their Bachelor degrees in Public Relations and Economics.
Israel and Turkey are to announce on Monday an agreement to normalize their relations more than six years after ties between the erstwhile allies fell apart following the Mavi Marmara incident.
