Auschwitz survivor, former French government minister and ex-president of the European Parliament, Simone Veil, died in Paris at the age of 89.

American Jewish groups and members of Congress are pressuring U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to appoint a US Special Envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, a position that will be unstaffed by July 1 due to budgetary cuts

‘’I will not be silent,’’ said Francis Kalifat, head of Crif, the umbrella representative group for French Jewish institutions, as his organization denounced the handling by the French authorities of the brutal murder of a Jewish woman, Sarah Haimi, by her Muslim neighbor last April.

In less than 5 years, Jerusalem has become one of the world's largest high tech hubs, a model featured in the European Parliament

The animals will be slaughtered after being irreversibly stunned, for example via an electrical anesthesia, the parliament decided.

A pro-Palestinian event due to be held in London will go ahead, despite a government threat to ban it over the organizers’ links to terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah.

30 years after his release from a Soviet labor camp for Zionists activities, Knesset Speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein delivered a historic speech before the Russian Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament in Moscow.

Israeli politicians, US Jewish leaders convene for emergency meeting on government's decision to nix plan for an egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall.

Unless new people are brought in, the State Department's office to monitor and combat antisemitism will face a bleak future.

FJC’s Knizhniki publishing house exhibit was one of the highlights at the International Book Fair in Jerusalem recently, attracting a wide and enthusiastic audience.