British Prime Minister David Cameron announced the UK’s first-ever Tech Envoy to Israel Tuesday, as part of the close Israeli ally’s efforts to bring world-leading Israeli start-ups to Britain, “and host tech events in both countries; helping UK tech business to compete and thrive in the global race”.

The European Union will look at ''all options'' to support and help the Syrian opposition coalition, said European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.

Israel’s leaders on Saturday sent condolences to U.S. President Barack Obama over the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 28 people dead, among them 20 children.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton responded angrily to comparisons made by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman equating the EU’s policy on Israel to Europe’s treatment of its Jews during the Holocaust.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday criticized anti-Israel statements made by Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal last week in Gaza City.

The European Parliament on Thursday approved a joint resolution slamming the Israeli government’s latest settlement expansion plans, claiming that if implemented they would “undermine the viability of the two-state solution” by making the possibility of a “the viable, contiguous and sovereign Palestinian State untenable.”

PA officials say a confederation would only take place after the creation of a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 lines.

Israel said it regrets Monday’s statement by the European Union on the settlements which it described as ''one-sided.''

Gül condemns Israels ''very dangerous'' move to build new settlements in joint conference with Abbas, Turkish media reports.

Germany announced it was expelling four Syrian embassy staff from Berlin, in an effort to isolate the authoritarian Syrian regime Monday, as Europe’s Foreign Ministers gave their backing to the new Syrian opposition coalition as “legitimate representatives of the Syrian people”.