Israeli officials on Tuesday slammed an EU directive forbidding all 28 EU member states from dealing with Jewish communities located beyond the 1949 Armistice lines, including eastern Jerusalem.
The European Union has issued a binding directive to the 28 member states forbidding any funding, cooperation, awarding of scholarships, research funds or prizes to institutions or people residing in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu expressed renewed concerns about the lack of movement in diplomacy towards stabilising the Iranian nuclear threat ahead of Tuesday’s meeting of international political directors in Brussels
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor has spoken out about Iran and Syria’s expected bid for a three-year rotating membership of the Human Rights Council, equating the prospect of the controversial regime’s joining the council to “putting the Godfather in charge of a witness protection program”.