Barcelona football club concluded its highly publicised two-day ‘peace tour’ of Israel and the West Bank Sunday night with a football workshop with Israeli children in the presence of 12,000 adoring fans and Israeli President Shimon Peres at Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium.
A 47-year-old member of the extremist ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta sect was indicted by the Jerusalem District Court for contacting an enemy agent after he approached the Iranian embassy in Berlin to offer his services to spy on Israel for Tehran.
Some 20 Israeli-Arab activists arrested as demonstrations take place nationwide against Prawer-Begin plan, IDF evacuation of 1,300 homes in South Hebron Hills; demonstration south of Rahat draws one thousand people.
Two flags are displayed during Knesset Caucus on Ending the Israeli-Arab Conflict; former PA parliament member at meeting tells 'Post' that Israel's flag may fly in Ramallah soon when Knesset Caucus visits
Eden Natan-Zada shot dead four people in Shfaram in 2005 before he was apparently lynched by crowd; two other defendants guilty of aggravated assault, one found guilty of attacking police officers; all acquitted of attempted murder charges.
The Israeli government was expected to vote on Sunday on a divisive proposal to approve the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture during the talks with the Palestinians that are likely to be renewed as early as next Tuesday in Washington.
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu greeted the victors of this week’s closely-fought Chief Rabbinate electoral ballot Wednesday, as he called on successful Sephardi candidate Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef and his Ashkenazi counterpart David Lau “to act to increase unity and love among the Jewish People”. Both candidates were elected to a standard ten-year mandate.
