Israel hopes that the appointment last week by EU leaders of Italian Federica Mogherini as the new European Union foreign policy chief will open a ''new chapter'' in the EU-Israel relations although they are still reserved because the Italian Foreign Minister is quite new in the diplomatic arena as she was named only six months ago in the centre-left government of Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
‘’The reconstruction of Gaza “is one of our interests as much as it is an interest of all the free world,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende during a meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday.
France is today the leading country in the world for Jewish emigration to Israel, the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) said. As of August 31, 4,566 Jews had left France for Israel this year.
A mobile phone shop in Istanbul posted a sign on its window front announcing that “Jew dogs” are banned from entering, the Turkish Jewish newspaper Salom reported.
A French journalist who was held hostage for months by extremists in Syria said one of his captors was Mehdi Nemmouche, a Franco-Algerian man accused of killing four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum earlier this year.
A Jewish couple died in the crash of their small private plane off the coast of Jamaica on Friday after veering far off its course toward southwest Florida and triggering a U.S. security alert that prompted a fighter jet escort.
According to Army Radio report, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi offered Palestinian Authority 620 square miles of land adjacent to Gaza in exchange for relinquishing claims to 1967 borders
Typical names of Shanghai residents – at least during World War II, when the Chinese city emerged as an unlikely port of entry for thousands of European Jews.
