The European Union Council has adopted the first legal acts implementing the nuclear deal reached between the world powers and Iran, which would allow for certain relief of sanctions against Iran.
An in-flight map aboard an Air France flight between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv, with a stopover in Paris, omitted to mention Israel while indicating the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to a passenger who sent a photo to the Facebook page of the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs.
The National Minority Rights Monitoring Group (head - Vyacheslav Likhachev) has published a preliminary report on hate crimes and other manifestations of xenophobia in Ukraine in the first half of 2015.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has instructed security forces to use administrative detention, arrest without an immediate trial, to detain the suspected arsonists who set fire to a house in Duma on Friday resulting in the death of 18-month-old Palestinian Ali Saad Dawabsha.
Arson attack in the West Bank: Lauder condemns ‘barbaric attack which represents the worst that humanity is capable of’, asks Israeli authorities to bring terrorists to justice
In his book, Ayatollah Khamenei describes Israel as ‘’a cancerous tumor’’ whose elimination would mean that ‘’the West’s hegemony and threats will be discredited’’ in the Middle East. In its place, he writes, ‘’the hegemony of Iran will be promoted.’’
Britain's Interior Minister Theresa May: Those who seek to spread anti-Semitic hatred should know that the government will act against all those who seek to divide our country and sow discord.''
The EU stated that the ‘’recent decisions of the Israeli authorities to further advance settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem call into question the Israeli government's stated commitment to a negotiated two-state solution in the Middle East Peace Process.’’
