Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas announced that he will meet French President Francois Hollande in Paris later this month to discuss a French initiative to organize an international conferece to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Zac Goldsmith, one of the two front-runners to become next Mayor of London after elections next month, declared: ‘’If I am elected mayor I will give police the tools they need to keep us safe. I will instruct the Metropolitan Police to take a zero tolerance approach to any form of hate crime— and I’ll back security at any Jewish school or synagogue where the need is real.”
Mark Regev, former foreign media spokesman of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, officially began his tenure as Israel’s new Ambassador to Britain as he presented his credentials to the Foreign Office.
An operator at a Belgian hotline set up after the Brussels terror attacks, who only referred to Palestine and not Israel regarding Israeli casualties, has been dismissed, Belgium’s ambassador to Israel John Cornet d'Elzius told i24news.
"I came to Israel to strengthen cooperation between our two countries because today we have more than ever things to learn from Israel’s experience’’," said the minister French health Marisol Touraine who is on a 3-day visit in Israel.
According to Jewish weekly in Antwerp Joods Actueel, a telephone operator at a crisis center of the Belgian Interior Ministry responded that ‘’Israel doesn’t exist, it’s Palestine,’’ when asked about Israeli victims of last week’s deadly bomb attack at Brussels Airport.
In a report on Tuesday’s attacks at Brussels Airport and a subway station, the ICT quotes Fighel as saying that ‘’one may thus believe that Abdeslam did not talk in his initial interrogation after his arrest, and withheld information regarding the Brussels attacks.’’
