At special Knesset session, lawmakers from all parties urge Obama to free ailing convicted spy for Israel.

Chavez described as someone who kept Palestine ''in his heart''; symbol for those ''scarred by imperialism'' Ahmadinejad says.

''Europe should take into very careful consideration what happened in Burgas and come up with with a series of measures that protect us from similar attacks in the future,'' said Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov, in reference to the terrorist attack against a bus in July 2012 that killed five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus driver in Burgas.

Israeli President Shimon Peres said the main difficulty in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is not settlements but rather terror.

''We shall renew the negotiations with the Palestinians, we have no other choice,'' said Israeli President Shimon Peres in Brussels where he started a weeklong state visit to Belgium, the European Union and France.

Venezuelan VP Maduro announces death of President Hugo Chavez, ending the socialist leader's 14-year rule.

As Defense Minister Barak meet new US counterpart Hagel, US defense official says the defense secretary is working to ensure there is no interruption of funding for Iron Dome, Arrow, and David's Sling rocket.

Former Israeli Defence Secretary Ehud Barak opened the first day of the 2013 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference.

Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) expressed outrage at the statement made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a United Nations gathering last week at which he equated Zionism with racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and called it “a crime against humanity.”

Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived in Brussels on Tuesday for a weeklong visit to Belgium, the EU and France.