This summer saw the sixth annual expedition of FJC’s rabbinical student enthusiasts on mobile synagogues, or “Mitzvah-mobiles” as they are called, across Russia.
For the first time a sitting Prime Minister will visit South America and Central America as Benjamin Netanyahu departed for visits to Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.
An Africa-Israel summit, which was due to take place next month in Lomé, Togo, has been postponed at the request of the President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbé, and after mutual consultations with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli foreign ministry announced.
CRIF, the umbrella representative group of Jewish institutions in France, condemned with force the very violent anti-Semitic aggression of a Jewish family near Paris which was sequestered, tied up, beaten and stolen at their home in Livry Gargan.
Almost 79 years after the activity of Torah & Avodah fund, otherwise known as Bnei Akiva, the Jewish youth movement, was forced to stop, an official approval was given to the Zionist youth movement to reopen its activity in Germany as a non-profit organization once again.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the dangerous consequences of Hezbollah’s activities backed by Iran in Lebanon and said that that the weapons infrastructure that the Shiite group was building may require the State of Israel to respond.
''The Olympic village became a place of Palestinian terrorists, a stage for their boundless hatred for Israel. It should never have happened,''said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier as he unveiled a memorial for the 12 victims of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, together with his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin.
The center will bear the name of Sir Naim Dangoor, an Iraqi born British businessman and philanthropist who supported projects in the fields of medicine and education in Britain and other countries around the world, including Israel.
