US president warns of cost of military conflict, urges Congress to hold off on new sanctions on Tehran; US Secretary of State Kerry says sanctions ease is necessary in order to build trust with the Iranians.
French president Francois Hollande announced he will address the Knesset during his visit in Israel next week, two weeks after he decided not to speak to the Israeli parliament but to university students instead.
27 members of the European Parliament have urged the EU to rethink the guidelines issued in July by the European Commission which ban funding of Israeli entities beyond the Green Line.
Sen. Mark Kirk claims White House pitch to US lawmakers to delay new Iran sanctions was ''unconvincing'' and ''fairly anti-Israeli”; says Israeli officials told him proposed deal would only set back nuclear program by ''24 days.''
If executed, plans for 14,866 units outside security barrier route would change geography of how Jewish growth, building occurs in West Bank, and place large population centers far away from pre-1967 lines.
An Israeli soldier was killed Wednesday morning by a 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist who stabbed him in the neck on a bus at the central station of Afula, in northern Israel.
PM says settlement construction must be done wisely; Steinitz denies Netanyahu has created a link between settlements and Iran; Ariel says plans for 24,000 housing units were 6-7 years away from being built.
