Interior Minister Eli Yishai calls on Israel to immediately begin negotiations with the new country in order to return the thousands of refugees and migrant workers who had crossed into Israel over the past years.
Netanyahu says lines declared by Lebanon are further south than those determined in previous deals; Israel to submit coordinates on maritime border with Lebanon to UN after U.S. endorses Lebanese version of where lines should be.
The ''Quartet'' of entities guiding the Israeli-Arab peace processes is meeting next week amid signs that the Obama administration is pressing the Israelis and Palestinians back to peace talks.
A lone French yacht carrying activists hoping to run the Israeli blockade on Gaza was on Thursday blocked in Crete by the Greek coast guard when it stopped to refuel, an organiser said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov signed Thursday several agreements for mutual cooperation during the first joint meeting of the two governments.
Bulgaria and Israel will hold a first joint session of their governments and sign a defence cooperation agreement on July 7 in Sofia, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said Tuesday.
