Two other headstones in the cemetery were later discovered vandalized.

Jewish groups in Germany have denounced the inflammatory book, which sold 4,000 copies during its first print run at the beginning of 2016.

Two European personalities are to visit Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum and Institute in Jerusalem, on Tuesday.

This Chanukah, the Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC) has unrolled a massive holiday contest called “Mega Chanukah”, aimed at motivating Jewish children across the CIS (FSU) to partake in the holiday spirit and also connect with one another.

A Jewish family living in Arizona found the Hanukkah Menorah they erected outside their house vandalized and twisted into a swastika, the Phoenix New Times reported.

A city in Spain has nullified a resolution endorsing the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement following legal action by a pro-Israel group.

One young Israeli woman was killed and another wounded in a terrotr attack on a nightclub in Istanbul on New Year.

The European Union continues to believe that the two-state solution constitutes the best way to achieve a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, an EU spokeswoman said one day after US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech in which he forcefully criticised Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem and warned that it was helping put the two-state solution in “serious jeopardy.”

British Prime Minister Theresa May has criticised the speech delivered on Wednesday by US Secretary of State John Kerry for singling out the issue of Israeli settlements.

“A democratic Israel is only achievable through a two-state-solution,’’ declared German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as he took the defense of US Secretary of State John Kerry.