Jewish groups slammed a recent decision by a Polish prosecutor not to bring criminal charges against football fans who yelled anti-Semitic insults at a match.
Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon issued an apology and praised US Secretary of State John Kerry, hours after he was quoted in the Israeli press launching a verbal attack on Kerry's ''obsession'' with Middle East peace. He had been quoted as saying that the current US-sponsored plan for security arrangements with the Palestinians, ''isn't worth the paper it was written on.''
Some 350 Dutch Christian activists demonstrated early Monday in front of the headquarters of PGGM, manager of the largest pension fund in Holland, to protest its recent decision to pull out its investments in five Israeli banks.