Israel has evidence that a spike in telephone calls took place between Lebanon and the Bulgarian city of Burgas in the two months before the July 18 bombing of a bus that killed six people, including five Israeli tourists, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The British Guardian newspaper has apologised for referring to Tel Aviv as Israel capital and issued “corrections and clarifications” in both print and online versions.
Barak asserts that despite increased urgency in Washington, decisions about Israel's security will be made in Jerusalem, clarifies that any order to attack will be made by the cabinet.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has urged the Romanian government to demonstrate its commitment to fighting anti-Semitism by having a newly-appointed minister apologize for his Holocaust denial comments and by improving its law against fascist and racist organizations.
The widow of the one of the 11 Israel victims of a terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Games earned a standing ovation at a London Jewish memorial to mark the 40th anniversary of the incident, as she accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of “discriminating” against them “because they are Israelis and Jews”.
Romanian Jews reacted with outrage Tuesday to news of the appointment of a controversial left-wing legislator who has previously been accused of Holocaust denial to a ministerial position.
The first-ever definitive study into the origins of North African Jews has revealed their hitherto-unknown relationship to the rest of the Jewish Diaspora.