Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu distanced himself from Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's call to the Middle East Quartet to help oust Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
In annual intelligence evaluation, Military Intelligence head Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi says Israel's environment will face crises and be more prone to unexpected eruptions.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem, and the Netherlands sign on Monday an agreement whereby the Dutch government will support the digitization of the files concerning the Dutch Righteous Among the Nations.
As over two million Israeli children open school year across the country, president visits embattled Sha'ar Hanegev, says ''if they fire, we will fire''; 3 rockets fall in South, 7 in recent days.
Human rights activists have slammed U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his attendance at a summit of the 120-member Non Aligned Movement which opened on Sunday in Tehran, Iran.
The Federation of Jewish Communities, angered over the way the Russian TV station presented the history of the baby Gabriel, who was allegedly tortured to death by the Jews, and then canonized by the Orthodox Church as a saint – publishes its protest.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has assured a Jewish leader that she is “devoting its full attention” to the circumcision issue in her country and “works intensively” in order to achieve an appropriate and fast solution to the German court ban on the religious practice.
