In the second arson attack in less than 2 months, an ohel, or small chapel-like structure for prayer at the grave of a tsadik, or righteous person, has been set alight in the Memorial Jewish Cemetery in Kolomyia [Ivano-Frankivsk oblast]

Teams from the youth movement’s 20 cities across Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia and Azerbaijan participated in the competition aiming for the prize – a mini-grant that would enable the winning team to make a pilot of the project and try it out in the real world.

Special forces recently carried out an operation to rescue the last Jewish family in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet US President Barack Obama at the White House Monday afternoon, the first meeting between the two men in more than a year and their first face-to-face encounter since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in July.

“We are not going to participate in this,” said an OSCE official when asked about a separatist statement asserting the organization’s participation.

On the eve of the upcoming three-day state visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in France, several Jewish organisations will stage a demonstration in Paris to express their opposition to the Iranian nuclear deal and to the threat posed by Iran to Israel.

Police arrested the assailant, who shouted anti-Semitic epithets at the victims and reportedly was drunk at the time of the attack.

In a statement to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urged both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to ''demonstrate with acts'' that their commitment to the two-state solution ''is real and not just fake'' or ''just an empty slogan.''

France’s Supreme Court has confirmed a ruling that promoting a boycott against Israel is tantamount to ‘’inciting hate or discrimination,’’ upholding the convictions and fines on twelve anti-Israel activists.