Givati Brigade commander says forces entered an unsecured area after cease-fire had taken effect, leading to kidnapping; IDF believes force used after kidnapping was proportionate.

French National Front leader Marine LePen said she would seek disciplinary action against her father after the 86-year-old exreme-right party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen last week reiterated a past comment that Nazi gas chambers were a ''detail of history''.

Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) said Sunday he was concerned about the increasing popularity of Hungary's extreme-right Jobbik party, particularly among young voters.

Jewish officials raise concerns about deal with Obama administration officials.

Heavy rains, accompanied by heavy winds and thunderous skies, poured down on Israel this Shabbat, canceling end-of-Passover hiking plans as well as traditional Mimouna festivals.Heavy rains, accompanied by heavy winds and thunderous skies, poured down on Israel this Shabbat, canceling end-of-Passover hiking plans as well as traditional Mimouna festivals.

“The Jews in the United States will not turn into Obama-haters because of their reservations over the Iran deal,” Rabbi Eric H. Joffie said.

The Yarmouk refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus has fallen into the hands of Islamic State.

A Brussels-based European Jewish umbrella organisation has launched a campaign which calls on Europeans to wear a kippah, the traditional Jewish skullcap, and other Jewish symbols to fight rising anti-Semitism on the continent.

Amedy Coulibaly intended to perpetrate an attack there similar to the attack in 2012 of a Jewish school in Toulouse by another Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah who killed three children and a teacher.

The Israeli embassy in Germany has confirmed that a 22-year-old man whose badly beaten body was found in the ruins of a Franciscan monastery in central Berlin was an Israeli citizen, though identification took time as he was beaten beyond recognition. ‘