Emails said to have been intercepted by Syria opposition and released by the Guardian show advisers indicated Syrian President should verbally attack Israel, center on Palestinian cause in a planned speech.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Paris's main mosque Wednesday, a week after a row over halal meat led France's Muslims and Jews to complain they were being used as pawns in the presidential election.
A pan-European racism watchdog said on Wednesday that it was recruiting monitors for Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, amid concerns about links between the extreme right and football hooligans.
IDF strikes Gaza overnight after Palestinian militants fire three Grad rockets at Be'er Sheva and Ofakim, violating an Israeli-Palestinian truce; school canceled in southern Israel.
Liberman tells South Korean FM that if Iran gets nuclear weapons it will pose a similar threat to Israel as North Korea poses to South Korea. He also said Iran is using Gaza to distract the world from events in Syria.
A silver shekel in circulation at the time of a Jewish rebellion against their Roman masters nearly 2,000 years ago sold Friday in New York for $1.1 million, Heritage auction house said.
Rabbi Zalman Bernstein charged by Indian authorities for failing to declare on his visa application that he would be conducting religious activities and of trying to convert foreigners.
Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin has opened a new exhibit featuring a wax figure of Anne Frank, the 13-year-old girl whose diary describing her Jewish family's experiences hiding from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam has become one of the most widely read books in the world.
