Religious Services Minister Yaakov Margi responds to announcement that Israel is prepared to recognize Reform, Conservative rabbis; MK Shelly Yacimovich, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld and Gerald Skolnik also respond.
Despite the presence of pro-Palestinian protesters disrupting Israel's Habima theater company’s performance in London on Monday, the actors maintained their performance.
German President Joachim Gauck marked his state visit of Israel on Monday by warning the country’s international critics that they must judge Israel’s policies “purely in a spirit of friendship”.
UN special envoy Kofi Annan met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Beirut on Tuesday to discuss his “bold steps” for peace in the civil war-torn country, as the international community united to condemn last week’s Houla massacres.
The Empire State Building in New York will form the focal point of Manhattan’s Israel independence celebrations from June 1-3 when it will be lit up in blue and white in honour of the Israeli flag.
The Russian Jewish community has reacted with outrage to news of last week’s Lithuanian state reburial of its controversial former leader. Juozas Brazaitis was head of a short lived WWII-era government accused of collaborating with Nazi Germany after it ousted the Soviets from power in the Baltic state.
Already strained Israeli-South African diplomatic ties were further tested on Monday, as a planned visit by an Israeli special envoy to a South African university was cancelled at the eleventh hour.
One of Britain’s leading exam boards became engulfed in accusations of anti-Semitism, over a national exam paper which asked pupils to ‘justify’ prejudices against Jews.
