As US Secretary of State returns to Israel Wednesday at the height of diplomatic tensions between Washington and Jerusalem over Iran, the European Union expresses dissatisfaction with the lack of progress in talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and wants to put pressure on both sides.
For the first time a unique educational center dedicated to the life of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, was inaugurated in Budapest, the city where he was born and where he worked in his earlier years.
The European Parliament will send a fact-finding mission to assess the situation of Palestinian prisoners in Israel in the beginning of next year, it was announced at a meeting this week of the Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (DPLC).
''Israel will always have Canada as a friend in the world,'' Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday at an annual gala dinner of KKL-JNF in Toronto attended by some 4,000 guests.
During a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the pontiff a Chanukah Menorah and a book about the Inquisition in Spain that was written by his late father.
In staunchly pro-Israel speech at Toronto fundraiser, Harper says ‘shared civilization depends on survival of Jewish homeland’; hundreds protest Bedouin Prawer Plan outside event
Khamenei can make abominable statements, but the muted response from the world indicated to Jerusalem that everyone’s mind was already made up: This train was bound for “success.”
