Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Wednesday morning denied that "any fundamental changes" had been made to a European Union statement on the Middle East, which stopped short of recognizing east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

President Obama rebuked the Turkish prime minister for belligerent anti-Israel rhetoric, saying it was harming Turkey's profile.

Turkish forces have prevented a Hezbollah attack on an undisclosed Israeli target in the country, Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon said. The attack was meant to avenge the killing of senior Hezbollah operative Imad Mughniyeh.

Syria is now willing to negotiate without preconditions, having retracted its earlier insistence that talks could not begin unless Israel first agreed to withdraw from the entire Golan Heights, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.

Three pro-Palestinian protesters were evicted from a Melbourne hotel on Sunday, after trying to gain entry to the Australia Israel Leadership Forum, where Vice Premier Silvan Shalom is in attendance, along with a delegation comprising of MKs Avi Dichter, Ronit Tirosh, Ronnie Bar-On, Daniel Ben-Simon and Nachman Shai.

President Barack Obama is delaying moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.

The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said that the European Union's intention to call for the division of Jerusalem would further harm the chances of renewing peace negotiations in the Middle East.

The Task Force to Save the Nation and the Land, the organization that offered every soldier refusing to evacuate a settlement, and the Kfir Brigade soldiers who publicly demonstrated their opposition to evacuation, NIS 1,000 for every day they spend in military prison, is a registered non-profit organization and has a license to operate.

The Israel Defense Forces will draft recruits to fight the enemy on Facebook and Twitter.

Israel and the United States seem closer than they have been for months on two key issues: peacemaking with the Palestinians and Iranian nuclear ambitions.