About 300 Auschwitz survivors have gathered at the site of the former Nazi death camp to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation.

''It is a disgrace that people in Germany are harassed, threatened or attacked if they somehow identify as Jews or if they take the side of the State of Israel,'' German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a memorial service attended by dozens of diplomats in Berlin on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Number of casualties mounting amidst shelling by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

The Arab-language newspaper 'Al-Hayat' quoted Western diplomats as saying that officials in Jerusalem sought to convey the message through indirect channels.

JPPI think tank proposes absorption policies designed to compete with Western countries.

World Jewish Congress leader Ronald Lauder said the recent massacres in Paris, which targeted Jews and newspaper satirists, are proof of growing hatred and extremism.

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin will not meet with US President Obama during his 5-day visit to the US, which began on Sunday, the Israeli media reported.

The radical leftwing Syriza party which appears to be the winner of Sunday’s general elections in Greece and has has promised to stop with austerity and defy the European institutions, is also widely viewed as having a clear anti-Israel stance. which has promised to “cancel” austerity and defy the European institutions

Unknown vandals desecrated Holocaust ‘’memorial cobblestones’’ in Brussels fixed to the pavement outside the former home of a Jewish family whose members were deported and murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz.

A Swedish tv reporter who wanted to test the attitudes of people towards Jews by walking in the streets of the city of Malmo while wearing a kippah and a Star of David necklace received direct anti-Semitic threats and fled for fear of serious violence.