Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, is to be awarded the prestigious 2011 Patron of Jerusalem (Yakir Yerushalayim) Award in recognition of his public activities.

Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon says the civilized world must take joint action to avert the Iranian nuclear threat.

Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said that he would help convince his colleagues in the European Parliament to vote against the kosher labeling law when it comes for a vote in July.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper successfully objected to any mention of Israel's 1967 borders in the final declaration of the G8 summit in Deauville, France, last Friday, Canadian media reports said.

Pro-Palestinian activists call on Israel to not interfere with the planned aid flotilla to Gaza, planned for late June; Turkey FM says onus on Israel to avoid repeat of last year's bloodshed.

Avraham spent three years in the yeshivah, during which he traveled back east to Russia each Passover and summer to help run a boys’ overnight camp, as part of his yeshivah training.

''We fully endorse Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statement that ‘Israel has no better friend than America and America has no better friend than Israel,’'' said leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, Chairman Alan Solow and Executive Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein.

Army conclusions counter claims by PA officials, who indicated the incident, which resulted in the death of Ben-Joseph Livnat, 25, was a mistake.

US President Barack Obama on Friday honoured the Jews who fought and died in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against Nazi Germany, as he began a working visit to Poland.

In meet with UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, president said UN must not create false hope for Palestinians that a unilateral declaration will bring about establishment of a state.