Several Jewish organisations hosted in New York an event marking the 70th anniversary of the UN General Assembly Resolution 181, aslo dubbed the Partition Plan, which called for the creation of a Jewish state alongside an Arab state.
''If these groups had spent the last 100 years making the positive case for Palestine that we make for Israel, there might now be two states living side by side and in peace,’’ said Jonathan Arkush, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
160 Jewish youth from across Europe attended earlier this week a ceremony marking 120 years since the First World Zionist Congress convened in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897.
Jewish leaders from across the world and more than 650 Russian-speaking Jews from more than 20 European countries will gather in Windsor for the first-ever Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) Europe regional conference in the United Kingdom.
The Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London has apologized after one of its oline archive photograph referred to Jewish World War II fighters as “terrorists”.
US State Department: ''The Israelis welcomed the ceasefire, the cabinet supported it and as Hamas continued to fire rockets, Israel declined to respond for several hours.''