The fifth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism (GFCA), a biennial gathering for assessing the state of anti-Semitism globally, will take place next week in Jerusalem.
The agreement, which was struck just two hours before the final deadline for Netanyahu to cobble together a ruling government, paves the way for a narrow, 61-seat coalition.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to present his 61-member coalition to President Reuven Rivlin later Wednesday, ahead of a midnight deadline to present his government.
Marking the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII on May 8-9, 1945 (VE Day), the Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II will hold a State ceremony in cooperation with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial.
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces next Wednesday deadline to form a coalition government, Avigdor Lieberman, current Foreign Minister and leader of the Yisrael Beitenu party, said he was resigning from his post and that he would not join the new coalition.
European, int'l diplomats mediating between parties on cease-fire, opening of seaport and release of Israeli soldiers' bodies, Ahmed Yousef tells Ma'an.