Russia is engaged in talks with Iran alongside the US, United Kingdom, France, China and Germany, working toward a November 24 deadline for a final agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein that MKs should be responsible and show restraint when it comes to the issue of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
During his official visit to Poland earlier this week, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin raised with the Polish leaders the issue of ritual slaughter (shechita) as the Polish Constitutional Tribunal is set to hold a hearing on December 3 to discuss the country’s ban on ritual slaughter of animals.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman decided Thursday to recall Israel’s ambassador to Sweden Isaac Bachman to Jerusalem for consultations to protest Sweden's recognition of a Palestinian state.
A ceremony posthumously honoring Antoine Sala and his daughters Henrietta, Louise and Marie-Paule, along with her husband Giovanni Angeli, from France, as Righteous Among the Nations will take place Thursday at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
Amid reports of a ‘full-blown crisis', the Obama administration tried to distance itself Wednesday from sharp criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attributed to American officials.
