Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a planned trip to Washington, where he was scheduled to participate in a nuclear security summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, government officials said.
Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister Dan Meridor will take Netanyahu's place in the nuclear summit.

More than 1,000 Jews marched through Budapest's Old Ghetto district on Tuesday in response to a series of anti-Semitic incidents in the lead-up to Hungary's elections.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Wednesday that the Lebanese army and militant organization Hezbollah is prepared to react to any "Israeli aggression."

The US considers a nuclear-armed Iran unacceptable and will not pressure Israel to relinquish its policy of "nuclear ambiguity," Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said on Army Radio Wednesday morning.

Israel's prime minister will attend President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit next week, but no one-on-one meeting is planned for the two leaders.

Ambassador to the US Michael Oren, in an interview with CNN on Sunday, was asked to sum up the state of Israeli-American ties in one word, and replied, “Great.”

A prominent Saudi cleric who announced his intention to arrive in the capital next week, to bolster Muslim claims to the city, doesn’t “stand a chance in hell” of being granted entry to the country, much less Jerusalem, a source inside the municipality said on Monday.

A leading Al-Qaida operative has accused Hezbollah of "protecting" Israel, the first time a high-ranking figure in the global terror organization has openly condemned the Lebanese group for undermining its campaign against the Jewish state.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has voiced skepticism over the effectiveness of any further sanctions against Iran in the dispute over its nuclear program, saying he still supported a diplomatic solution.

Jordan’s relationship with Israel is at an all-time low since peace was established 15 years ago, Jordanian King Abdullah says.