Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, of the center-right party VVD is set to win Wednesday’s parliament election and beat off a challenge from far-right poilitical leader Geert Wilders. Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy was projected to win 31 seats, a lost of 10 seats.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman denounced a United Nations agency report accusing Israel of imposing an ‘’apartheid regime’’ of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people. The spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, likened the report to Der Sturmer, a Nazi propaganda publication that was strongly anti-Semitic.
The Jewish community of Vladivostok, Russian furthest South-East port city on the Pacific ocean, chose a Soviet theme for the holiday’s masquerade on Sunday, to underline Purim’s miracle of turning the darkest of times into a period of light and hope.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said that the Palestinians must stop the incitement, in a meeting with visiting Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfan
The wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the United States continues: at least seven centers in the US and also in Canada were threatened during Purim celebrations.