US Secretary of Defense says he does not think Netanyahu is trying to sabotage nuclear talks; Rouhani echos comments from Ayatollah Khamenei, saying he is not optimistic about the results of nuclear talks with West.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton deplored Israel’s announcement of new home construction plans in East Jerusalem neighborhoods, including Ramat Shlomo, calling on Jerusalem to end construction intended to accommodate “natural growth.”

Anti-Semitism is on the decline in the US, according to a survey of ‘American attitudes toward Jews in America’ by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

“The government of South Africa is creating an atmosphere of anti-Israeli sentiment and anti-Semitism that will make a pogrom against Jews in the country just a matter of time,” said Avigdor Lieberman.

Chancellor Angela Merkel lamented that 75 years after Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish pogroms in Germany, Jewish institutions in the country still need police protection.

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, who is on a two-day visit to Israel, will meet Monday with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Assertion likely to anger Syrian opposition that says it will only attend Geneva conference if goal is to remove Assad.

Dmitry Medvedev says Syrian president would need to see proposals on future of country before any ceding of power.

Explosion injures five soldiers working to destroy tunnel.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder warned the US Administration not to trust the current charm offensive of Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani, in a private hour-long meeting earlier this week with Vice President Joseph Biden in Washington.