Last night, two weeks after the IDF rushed to Haiti with hundreds of doctors to help treat those wounded in the devastating earthquake, the field hospital which it had opened - and which came to symbolize the exceptional Israeli rescue effort - finally closed its doors.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's humiliation of the Turkish ambassador earlier this month seriously offended Turkey, but also made it clear to Ankara that it had crossed red lines in its relationship with Israel, according to a report on Israel-Turkey relations prepared by the Foreign Ministry.
Israel is likely to tell the United Nations that it will agree to the appointment of a committee tasked with focusing on a few issues related to last year's military operation in the Gaza Strip.
The world must stop new attempts to destroy the State of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on Monday.
"I do not believe that in the foreseeable future there is a possibility of an agreement with the Palestinians on all the issues, especially on the problematic core issues," says Udi Dekel, who headed the negotiations task force in the previous government.
US Middle East envoy George Mitchell was meeting for the second time in four days with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu early Sunday morning, after apparently failing to budge Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas toward negotiations during their talks on Friday.
