A combination of high-quality intelligence and what appears to have been poor execution is what emerges from initial information about the failed attempt to assassinate Israeli diplomats in Jordan on Thursday.

Two remote-controlled bombs were detonated close to the Allenby Bridge crossing as a convoy of Israeli diplomats visiting Jordan passed.

The man who shot up the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building in July 2006 was sentenced to life in prison.

An Israeli baby girl was injured when Palestinians threw rocks at the car in which she was riding.

An American Muslim organization is denying charges leveled by the Anti-Defamation League that a national conference held to combat extremism actually promoted anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiment.

World Zionist youth movements are facing a financial crisis which could lead to their imminent collapse, leaders of all major such movements told the Knesset this week in a plea for government intervention.

The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic is hearing a case brought by the Czech government which wants to ban the extreme-right Workers’ Party.

Israel’s former chief rabbi and current chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel Meir Lau, has said in an interview with Italian television that Pope Benedict XVI should be welcomed.

Turkey's main Jewish group on Thursday said the row between their country and Israel must be solved courteously, and warned that continued tensions could inflame anti-Semitism.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has prepared a 220-member rescue team for departure to the disaster-stricken country, including an elite army corps engineers and a field hospital to assist the casualties.