Jerusalem's identity is Arab, and the city's and Christian holy sites must be protected from Israeli threats, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said.
Israel’s Chief Rabbi has suggested that doctors train people who carry out circumcisions in Germany, after a Cologne court in June had ruled the procedure illegal as a religious rite carried out on children without their consent.
The Hungarian administration was hit by new allegations of anti-Semitism, after it failed to respond to claims that a friendly football match Wednesday between its national team and Israel was marred by racist actions by its fans.
UN watchdog to meet Iranian officials over concerns about possible military dimensions to Islamic Republic's nuclear program; Western diplomats say they do not expect any breakthrough.
German officials have opened an investigation into an 87 year-old suspected WWII Nazi concentration camp guard. According to German weekly Der Spiegel, the unnamed presumed Nazi worked at the death camp in 1944, during which period 344,000 people were sent to their deaths.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry published a letter on its website Monday by its UN envoy calling on the UN Security Council to condemn Iran’s “outrageous statements, which called for the destruction of Israel and spread vile anti-Semitism”.
President visits Majd ek Karum in Galilee, tells residents perpetrators of brutal J'lem attack must be brought to justice; Education Minister Sa'ar says issues of violence, racism must be addressed in school system.
Jerusalem police arrested a 15-year-old youth on Sunday in connection with the savage beating of an Arab teen on Thursday, bringing the total number of suspects arrested to five.
The European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called Israel a ''cancerous tumour with no place in a future Middle East,” were ''outrageous and hateful''.
