The University of California Board of Regents addressed the recent spate of hate violence and racist vandalism at its campuses by announcing a series of measures designed to monitor and prevent hate violence in the university system.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was set to convene his senior ministers on Friday afternoon to discuss the demands made by US President Barack Obama and his overall trip to Washington – a trip that, because of negative atmospherics and amid a paucity of hard information, has been widely characterized as among the most difficult in recent memory.

The United Nations Human Rights Council passed three resolutions that condemn Israel and another seeking reparations for Gaza Palestinians.

As far as President Barack Obama and his senior advisers are concerned, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to blame for nothing less than damaging the standing of the U.S.in the Middle East and the Muslim world.

American Jewish groups were among 200,000 protesters in Washington demanding comprehensive immigration reform in the United States.

Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted on the walls of a Jewish school in the capital of Bulgaria.

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni stressed the need for an agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in order to achieve the "Zionist vision of a Jewish and democratic state."

The IDF is investigating two West Bank incidents in which Israeli soldiers shot dead four Palestinians in less than 24 hours.

Full text of Prime Minister Netanyahu's AIPAC speech.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told AIPAC activists that "Jerusalem is not a settlement," and also depicted the Palestinian Authority as not taking steps for peace.