World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Tuesday condemned the UNESCO Executive Board’s vote in favor of a resolution rejecting Israeli sovereignty and jurisdiction over Jerusalem.
Israel has urged UNESCO’s 58-member Executive Board, which is set to gather Tuesday in Paris, not to promote “fake” history by approving on Palestinian-backed resolution that rejects Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.
''My policy is clear: Not to meet with diplomats who visit Israel and engage with organizations that slander Israeli soldiers and seek to have them put on trial as war criminals,'' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Jerusalem one day after he cancelled a meeting with visiting German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabrie
Israeli President Rivlin has denounced French extreme-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's recent comments denying France's responsibility in the deportation of Jewish citizens to the Nazi death camp as "uniquely disturbing."
One diplomatic official said that Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman’s rescheduled visit is a clear sign that relations with Ukraine have returned to normal.
Some 500 Jewish mothers from around the world will celebrate Jewish motherhood in Israel this Mother’s Day, May 14, as part of the life-changing “MOMentum” trip to Israel, thanks to the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) and Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.