Former British Prime Ministr Tony Blair announced that he would step down as the Middle East envoy of the Quartet (United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia) following eight years in the role in which he tried to push forward economic development and institution building in the Palestinian Authority.
Following criticism from Jewish groups, the German government has added two Jewish members to its anti-Semitism committee, a group launched last December by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere ‘’to resolutely combat anti-Semitism and continue promoting the sustainability of Jewish life in Germany.''
Andrzej Duda, a Conservative Catholic politician who won Sunday’s presidential elections in Poland, has criticized the outgoing president’s apologies in recent years for the massacre that Polish farmers perpetrated against their Jewish neighbors in Jedwabne.
Islamic Jihad was named as the group that fired the rocket at Israel on Tuesday, though the defense minister and pm maintained that Hamas is responsible for anything that goes on in the Gaza Strip.
An Egyptian journalist from a popular news site dressed up as an ultra-Orthodox Jew and walked the streets of Cairo asking locals for directions to a synagogue, in order to gauge the public’s reaction.