160 Jewish youth from across Europe attended earlier this week a ceremony marking 120 years since the First World Zionist Congress convened in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to leave Monday for a 3-day trip in Washington where he will meet on Wednesday in the Oval Office with Donald Trump, for the first time since the new US President took office.
Days after suggesting that Jews should stop wearing the kippah as a way of defeating radical Islam, French extreme-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said that if she is elected, people holding dual French and Israeli citizenship would have to give up one of their nationalities.
Belgium’s ambassador to Israel Olivier Belle was summoned to the foreign ministry in Jerusalem on Thursday for a dressing down after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned about a meeting that took place between visiting Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and representatives of far-left wing groups Breaking the Silence and B'Tselem.