Delta Air Lines and the Saudi Embassy in Washington deny rumors that spread via the Internet last week, claiming Delta and Saudi Arabian Air Lines discriminate against Jewish passengers.
B’nai B’rith International denounced the fact that a UN meeting on the Mideast issue this week in Brussels doesn’t include official representatives of Israel.
A Jewish group has expressed concern that the inclusion of Saudi Arabian Airlines in the global SkyTeam Alliance will lead to religious discrimination for Jewish, Israeli and other non-Muslim passengers.
Palestinian prisoners to protest transfer of at least seven senior Hamas officials to solitary confinement, one of which suffers from serious health problems, according to Hamas.
France ''has not forgotten Gilad Shalit,'' French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Friday in a special statement published on the foreign ministry’s website, as Israel marks five years since the Israeli soldier who has also French citizenship was captured by Hamas.
European Union leaders, who met in Brussels for their semester-end summit, called on Israel and the Palestinians ''to engage urgently in negotiations.''