PLO: Closure part of Israel’s efforts to negate Palestinian rights and destroy prospects of peace.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced a conference taking place in Tehran devoted to promoting anti-Semitic propaganda which drew Holocaust deniers and international anti-Semites to the Iranian capital.

US President Barack Obama said new efforts are needed to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Should UNSC bid fail, PLO plan would move into phase two, which involves signing international treaties, Palestinian source says.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the step would also send a ''troubling message'' if the Israeli government proceeded with tenders and construction.

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, the Bayit Yehudi chairman, said that “those who are committed to war against Islamic State and Hamas can’t give them a state.”

According to the Associated Press, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has identified 80 former members of the so-called Einsatzgruppen, the Nazi mobile death squads, who might still be alive.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution calling to stand up against the rise of neo-Nazism in Europe.

Palestinians believe area should be part of their future state.

Around 30,000 pilgrims travel to Uman to pray on Rosh Hashana at grave of revered rabbi.