The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday welcomed news of a 6% drop in reported hate crimes in 2011 in the US, as the FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics Act Report found the lowest number of hate crimes were reported in the US last year since 1994.
Former IAF chief says the Middle East is a hot area, not built for cold wars; adds: Risk of Syrian chemical weapons falling into terror hands poses threat to whole world.
According to the findings of a new poll released Sunday by Israeli daily Ha’aretz an overwhelming majority of 81% of respondents answered that incumbent Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is on course to retain his position at the January 22 early general elections.
New US intelligence report predicts that in less than two decades, a Palestinian state will exist, but key issues such as Jerusalem's status are likely to remain unresolved; China's economy to overtake US.
As evidence emerged recently that Syria has loaded sarin gas materials into chemical warheads. Israel’s ambassador to the United States on Sunday said that if Syria’s chemical weapons fell into the hands of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite group, Israel would consider it a “game changer.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting that our enemies “want to destroy the state,” in comments following a speech by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Saturday reiterating his movement’s refusal to “give up one inch of the land of Palestine.”
The Israeli Minister of religion arrived in Moscow for a short visit, in order to attend the opening of the new “Bar Mitzvah children write and learn Tanah (Bible)” project and witness the remarkable development of the Jewish community.