French police arrested two men in the city of Creteil on Monday following the assault of a young couple in a suspected anti-Semitic incident, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien.
A delegation of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, is to visit the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday to attend a meeting with their European counterparts from the parliament’s delegation for relations with Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducts what the media is describing as crisis talks with government coalition leaders on Monday as speculation continues that an election is imminent over fraying relations within the government.
In the wake of the controversy regarding the ‘Jewish State’ bill, Channel Two reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjmin Netanyahu is seeking the support of ultra-Orthodox factions in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, before potentially calling an election.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France is working at the United Nations for a resolution to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and to set a two-year deadline for success.
The trial of two Frenchmen who hit and killed an Israeli woman while driving an SUV in Tel Aviv in 2011, then fled to France to avoid prosecution, was suspended this week after one of their lawyers was attacked in the court’s bathroom.
