Key senators, administration officials and Jewish leaders talk to The Jerusalem Post about a punishing new sanctions bill taking shape in Congress — and Iran’s chance to avoid it in Geneva this week.
US Secretary of Defense says he does not think Netanyahu is trying to sabotage nuclear talks; Rouhani echos comments from Ayatollah Khamenei, saying he is not optimistic about the results of nuclear talks with West.
“The government of South Africa is creating an atmosphere of anti-Israeli sentiment and anti-Semitism that will make a pogrom against Jews in the country just a matter of time,” said Avigdor Lieberman.
Anonymous official: Assad is disarming chemical arsenal out of his own interests; Erdan says Israel sticking to policy on weapons transfers to Hezbollah; refuses to deny, confirm reports of air strike on Syrian missile base.
‘’I will remember this visit for the rest of my life,” said Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark after visiting Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, as part of a state visit to Israel on Wednesday.
Participants of a working group on Brit Milah, who met in Brussels, decided to launch a pro-active campaign to educate parliamentarians and the general public in Europe about the religious circumcision, to push for standardization of the practice among all European communities and to initiate European-wide training of mohelim, those who perform ritual Jewish circumcisions, to meet the highest medical and hygiene standards.
Obama administration official confirms to CNN that Israel attacked missiles and equipment it felt might be transferred to Hezbollah; Al-Arabiya reports Israel destroyed SA-8 missiles in Damascus and Latakia.
