In a further sign of rapprochement between Israel and Turkey, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the suicide car bombing in Turkey’s capital Ankara which killed 37 people and wounded more than 70 others on Sunday.
European Union Foreign Ministers on Monday welcomed ideas presented by French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to convene an international conference later this year in Paris in order to revive deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian talks.
A 16-year-old Danish girl who recently converted to Islam, was charged for planning a terror attack against a Jewish school in Copenhagen and another school in Denmark.
Britain’s Interior Minister Teresa May has confirmed that government is to fund more than £13 million (€16,9 m, $18,4 m) for the protection of the Jewish community over the next year, as she insisted extremists must not be given “an inch in causing tension and division”.
The state conversion course comprises 400 study hours, and conversion candidates in Russia and Ukraine would be able to complete as many as 180 hours before coming to Israel.
Slovakia’s Social Democrat Prime Minister Robert Fico lost his parliamentary majority in Sunday’s elections which saw important gains for smaller parties, including the ‘’LS-Nase Slovensko’’ (‘’Our Slovakia’’) extreme-right party.
‘’We understand Israel's security is essential and not up for compromise. The fight against terror demands our determination,'' said Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, who started Monday a visit to Israel.
“There are many organizations in the Jewish world now that are hungry for really talented, energetic leadership at the entry level or at the senior executive level,” Mimi Kravetz of Hillel said.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, has approved a €252.5 million ($274 million) assistance package supporting the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestinian refugees.
