The Israeli foreign ministry said a drive-by shooting at the Israeli Embassy in Athens early Friday morning was “the result of Palestinian incitement against Israel,” which it claimed was led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Sources close to former Likud minister say candidates to be revealed at a launching event next week for faction expected to run in March election.

The film, compiled for an internal IDF intelligence inquiry, shows a significantly longer battle than version presented to the public.

On the occasion of the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on 27 January 2015, more than 100 Auschwitz survivors from at least 17 countries will travel to Poland to participate in a commemoration event of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.

Israel slammed the vote of a non-binding resolution by the Irish parliament calling on the government to recognize an independent Palestinian state.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the European Jewish Congress hailed Poland’s Constitutional Court ruling which affirmed Wednesday the protection of kosher slaughter of animals (shechita) in the country under the constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has called for a immediate independent investigation into the death of Palestinian Minister Ziad Abu Ein during a demonstration near Ramallah in the West Bank.

Romania’s ambassador to Armenia was recalled to Bucharest to give ‘’explanations’’ after he reportedly made anti-Semitic and homophobic statements as well as disrespectful remarks on the Armenian genocide.

Popular center-right politician seen winning 10 or more seats in polls ahead of March elections.

Argentine Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia, an expert at the Second Vatican Council, a longtime leader of Catholic-Jewish dialogue, and the former Vatican archivist, died in Rome Dec. 8 at the age of 91.