The Foreign Ministry's Emmanuel Nachshon calls the Palestinian decision to join International Criminal Court “political, cynical and hypocritical.”

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin exhorted members of the newly elected Knesset members “to attend to the needs of the nation, saying ‘the time has come to return to the main players, during the inaugural session of the 120-member parliament in Jerusalem.

‘’Our view remains that we would have to judge the Israeli government on the actual actions that it is taking. Since the government is not formed yet that remains to be seen,” the European Union Ambassador in Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, said.

The European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove said recently that al-Qaeda may attempt to carry out a new terror attack in Europe to demonstrate that it still possesses the ''leadership of global Jihad.''

39 newcomers, 81 veterans to attend festive session opened by Rivlin.

The Congress members issued the demand last week at a meeting with deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, Politico reported Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the framework agreement on the Iranian nuclear program being sought by world powers is even worse than his country had feared.

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini has welcomed Israel’s decision to resume the transfer of the Palestinian Authority’s tax revenues.

The European Union is keeping Hamas on its list of terror groups despite a controversial court decision last December ordering Brussels to remove the Islamist Palestinian group from the register.

France is set to start discussions with its European partners on a possible United Nations Security Council resolution to lay out the framework for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.