President Rivlin is on an official visit to Ukraine during which he will participate in the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre.
The European Union's top court has recommended the rejection of an appeal by the Council of EU Member States against a lower EU court’s decision in 2014 to remove Hamas, the Palestinian islamist group that controls Gaza and Sri Lankan rebel group Tamil Tigers from the EU list of banned terrorist organizations due to a lack of evidence.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton affirmed ‘’her opposition to any attempt by external forces to impose a solution, including the UN Security Council’’, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday in New York.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that under a Trump administration ‘’there will be extraordinary strategic, technological, military and intelligence cooperation between the two countries,’’ when he met Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York
A pro-Israel group fighting the BDS (Boycott,Divestment, Sanctions) movement in Spain has booked a new success after a court freezed a resolution against Israel by the City Council of Santa Eulalia on the island of Ibiza.
‘’I invite you (Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas) to speak to the Israeli people at the Knesset in Jerusalem. And I would gladly come to speak to the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah,’’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
US President Barack Obama and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated the strong bilateral ties between the two countries during a meeting in New York, the first between the two men since November 2015.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder criticized United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's speech to the United Naions General Assembly which slammed Israel and made no mention of Palestinian terrorism.
France is still pushing for convening an international peace conference with Israeli and Palestinians leaders despite Jerusalem’s opposition to such a format.
