The Jewish American musician's concert was cancelled on Monday after the festival succumbed to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Santions (BDS) movement.
The Spanish government has condemned the decision of a reggae festival in Valencia to cancel a concert by American-Jewish musician Matisyahu after he rejected a demand to state his position on a Palestinian state as a condition to his participation.
Danny Danon, Israel’s Minister of Science Technology and Space, will be next ambassador to the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who also holds the Foreign Minister post, announced.
The Israeli Health Ministry has warned the population the heat wave that is expected to bring temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) from Sunday across the country.
Jewish-American reggae and hip-hop star Matisyahu was dropped from a music festival in Spain scheduled for next week following his refusal to endorse Palestinian statehood, Spanish media reported.
The campaign was announced in Atlanta at a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank - a Jewish pencil factory manager who was dragged from his jail cell and murdered in 1915 after a show trial tinged with anti-Semitism.
Seven decades after the Germans liquidated the Lodz Ghetto and sent its remaining Jews to Auschwitz, a Jerusalem-based organization announced that it will open the first Jewish kindergarten in the Polish city in partnership with the local Jewish community.
