"I came to Israel to strengthen cooperation between our two countries because today we have more than ever things to learn from Israel’s experience’’," said the minister French health Marisol Touraine who is on a 3-day visit in Israel.
According to Jewish weekly in Antwerp Joods Actueel, a telephone operator at a crisis center of the Belgian Interior Ministry responded that ‘’Israel doesn’t exist, it’s Palestine,’’ when asked about Israeli victims of last week’s deadly bomb attack at Brussels Airport.
Dani Dayan, the former head of the Yesha Council in the West Bank whose initial appointed as Israel's ambassador to Brazil was opposed by the Brazilian authorities, will become Consul General in New York.
A Jewish man who stormed a Paris synagogue dressed as a jihadist and shouting “Allahu Akbar” was summoned to the police to explain his actions and later released, the French media reported.
According to Sky News, citing an “intelligence source,” terrorists from the Islamic State are plotting to attack a synagogue which also doubles as a school and community center in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly condemned a United Nationd Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution calling for the creation of a “blacklist” of companies operating in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
Rabbi Menachem Hadad tells Israel Radio that Belgium lacks the counterterrorism capabilities of other Western European countries grappling with home-grown jihadism of the kind on display on Tuesday.