The fifth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism (GFCA), a biennial gathering for assessing the state of anti-Semitism globally, will take place next week in Jerusalem.
The agreement, which was struck just two hours before the final deadline for Netanyahu to cobble together a ruling government, paves the way for a narrow, 61-seat coalition.
The Jewish community in Britain is more and more becoming a target for violence and threats, with the highest number of anti-Semitic incidents ever registered in the country, said Italian MEP Fulvio Martusciello, Chairman of the Delegation of the European Parliament for relations with Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to present his 61-member coalition to President Reuven Rivlin later Wednesday, ahead of a midnight deadline to present his government.
The founder of France’s extreme-right National Front (FN) party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been suspended over remarks and a feud with his daughter Marine.
A memorial plaque honoring Ilan Halimi, a young French Jew kidnapped, tortured and killed by a gang in 2006, was damaged in the city of Bagneux, a suburb of Paris.
Marking the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII on May 8-9, 1945 (VE Day), the Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II will hold a State ceremony in cooperation with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial.
