Palestinian terrorists fire Grad rocket at South despite informal cease-fire; 1 lightly injured, 11 suffer shock; IAF retaliates on 2 targets in Strip; Gantz: Attacks like in Netivot will draw IDF responses.
Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld has been choosen by Die Linke (The Left) opposition party as a candidate for the German presidency in an election next month.
The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) called on French President Nicolas Sarkozy to defend ‘shechita’, the Jewish ritual slaughter, in Europe and to oppose a regulation that would introduce a labelling ''which would lead to stigmatisation.''
Around 300 rockets were fired into Israel over four days of hostilities, 56 of them intercepted by Iron Dome; 26 Palestinians killed, 4 of them civilians, according to IDF chief.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations condemned “in the strongest terms” the continuing rocket fire from Gaza against the civilian populations of southern Israel.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that France would be intransigent when it comes to protecting the security of Israel, but he said that France would demand with ''equal force'' a state for the Palestinian people.
''We are working with the tools of diplomacy. But if that does not work, all options are on the table. We are ruling nothing out. Iran will not know what we are planning. Uncertainty, that is what needs to feel the Iranian regime,'' said Yaakov Hadas-Handelsman, Israel’s new Ambassador to Germany in his first interview with Bild daily newspaper.
The Israel Air Force carried out 37 airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, and 26 Palestinians have been killed as a result of strikes since Friday, Chief of Staff Gantz: IDF will stop activities when Gaza rockets stop.
