Team of seven officers is set up to review the two minute long call which was ignored for five hours on the night of the abduction last Thursday night; police play tape of call to families of kidnapped teens.
Jewish groups praised the New York Metropolitan Opera’s announcement that it had canceled plans to broadcast the opera ''The Death of Klinghoffer,'' following criticism that the opera glorifies murder and could fan global anti-Semitism.
Mario Balotelli, the Ghanaian-born Milan AC striker who scored the decisive second goal in Italy’s 2-1 victory against England was adopted and raised by a Jewish family from the age of three.
A future government led by Labour would forge closer links with Israel, said party leader Ed Miliband in an address to an annual dinner of the Labour Friends of Israel group in London.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday that he expected his help in securing the safe return of the three kidnapped Israeli teens, in a telephone conversation.
One of the most outspoken pro-Israel voice in the European Parliament, Dutch MEP Bastiaan Belder, has joined the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the new EU Parliament.
It took five days for the European Union to issue a statement condemning the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, Gilad Shaer, Eyal Yifrach and Naphtali Fraenkel last Thursday.
Head of the Central Command says the IDF is focused on finding the kidnapped boys and weakening Hamas; says Hamas will come out of this operation weaker than before.
