A Ukrainian international businessman, Igor Kolomoisky, has been named the new president of the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) at the organization’s ''Once a Decade'' conference in Berlin on Monday.
Israel’s Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar expressed the hope that current discussions with the United States ''will enable us in a very short time, maybe next month, to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.''
The top foreign operations appropriator in the U.S. House of Representatives slammed a GOP proposal to vote separately on aid to Israel and foreign aid.
Pro-Israel groups denied any role in passing a congressional resolution slamming Turkey for its alleged role in removing the Greek cultural presence in Northern Cyprus.
Israeli NGO 'Breaking the Silence,' Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas and Ethiopian opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa are the three shortlisted finalists for the European Parliaments 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.