Roger Cukierman, the president of the French Jewish umbrella organization CRIF, has accused a state-funded museum of celebrating Palestinian sucide bombers.
According to NGO Monitor, EU funds are going to organizations involved in anti-Israel boycotts and violent demonstrations, which, it says, ''undermine the EU's efforts to secure peace in the Middle East.''
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at a dedication ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau vows Israel will defend itself against threats of annihilation; says ''we must not be helpless and entrust our fate in the hands of others.''
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin told Israel’s ambassador to Sofia that his government’s position on the Burgas attack that killed five Israeli tourists in July 2012 has not changed, explicitely rejecting media reports suggesting that Bulgaria had reassessed its declaration that the Iran-backed terror group was involved in the attack.
Netanyahu who is set to visit Poland, releases joint statement with Warsaw that calls on PA to return to negotiating table without the precondition that Israeli building stop in the West Bank.
Riot police use tear gas, water cannons as demonstrators renew protests in Istanbul, defying Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's demand they clear the area and end 10 days of demonstrations.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton expressed her continued concern at the escalating Turkish crisis Sunday as she called for an end to violent demonstrations and “all cases of excessive use of force by the police”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected criticism by the French foreign ministry of Israel’s settlement policy expansion after it released a statement Monday condemning reports of a peak in West Bank settlement blocs as “illegal under international law”.
