Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that Israel would not attack Iran without consulting the United States and that Jerusalem clearly saw sanctions as the next step to deal with Teheran’s nuclear program.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell discussed ways to resume stalled peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians during a meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Friday morning.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s key coalition partners seemed to give a tacit nod Thursday to the possibility of a building freeze within Jerusalem itself, despite a reiteration by Netanyahu that no such freeze would be enacted.

At the World Tanach competition, which concluded in Jerusalem, a ninth-grade student from the Odessa Ohr Avner Chabad Day School placed amongst the top winners.

U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell arrived in Israel for meetings with Israeli officials and later in Ramallah with Palestinian officials.

The Jewish reaction to the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other senior Polish officials in an air tragedy highlights a remarkable change in how the Jewish world views Poland.

Thanks to the Fellowship Foundation, another humanitarian aid campaign took place recently, this time in the Siberian city of Barnaul.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected an Obama administration call for a total construction freeze in eastern Jerusalem, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Two Katyusha rockets reportedly fired at Eilat from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula landed in Jordan.

The U.S. Department of Justice again has declined to intervene in the sentencing of a convicted kosher meat executive.