The motion calls on the government to ''officially recognize the State of Palestine, on the basis of the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital, as established in UN resolutions.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has reportedly decided not to renew his signature on an annual petition calling for Israel to officially recognize the Armenian genocide.

Party members from Belgium’s governing coalition deny reports that it had agreed in principle to recognize Palestinian statehood.

Ashton Carter writes of US ''deterrence and containment'' of a nuclear Iran in 2008 Harvard paper; Colleague notes active role in US-Israel partnership.

A Frenchman who drove a car that killed an Israeli woman in September 2011 in Tel Aviv was sentenced to five years in jail.

Israel said that Tuesday’s vote of the French parliament's vote in favour of recognising Palestine as a state will '’harm the peace process.’’

The lower house of the French parliament is set to vote today/Tuesday on a non-binding resolution tabled by the governing Socialist Party which “invites the French government to use the recognition of the state of Palestine as an instrument to gain a definitive resolution of the conflict.”

Islamic State reportedly hijacked Egyptian missile boat near Suez; 8 Egyptian sailors still missing, Arab media says.

A delegation of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, is to visit the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday to attend a meeting with their European counterparts from the parliament’s delegation for relations with Israel.

The European Parliament is set to vote on December 17 in Strasbourg whether to recognize a Palestinian state.