As a delegation of top American Jewish leaders are visiting Spain, Spanish Justice Minister announced that the country will pass a law that will make it easier for the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 to obtain Spanish citizenship.
No injuries reported in attacks on Hof Ashkelon, Eshkol Regional Council; IDF fires, injures Palestinians protesting near border on second day of increased violence.
Rafi Schutz, the Foreign Ministry's deputy director general for Europe, told Ambassador Andor Nagy that Israel was also worried about Hungarian willingness to deal truthfully with its past.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said European Parliament President Martin Schulz ''suffers from the same selective listening as many Europeans''.Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said European Parliament President Martin Schulz ''suffers from the same selective listening as many Europeans''.
John Kerry's framework agreement for Middle East peace will describe Israel as the state of the Jewish people, it has reported, despite fierce Palestinian opposition.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre applauded and endorsed the decision by Mazsihisz - the representative body of Hungarian Jewry to stay away from this year’s government-sponsored commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary.
The President of the European Union Council, Belgian Herman Van Rompuy, has removed a poem from his personal website after complaints that the author was a well-known Nazi.