''''The Arab spring has turned into winter. The Middle East has never been more volatile than it is now,’’ said World Jewish Congress President Ronald S.Lauder at a meeting of the young diplomats forum of the Israel council on Foreign Relations in Jerusalem.
Lithuania, the country which currently chairs the European Union, called on Israel ''to end the expansion of settlements in the occupied territories, '' saying ‘’such actions impair the progress of peace talks.''
By 8:30 p.m. 42 percent had voted, down from last elections; party leaders urge voters to cast a ballot; Tel Aviv's Huldai and Jerusalem's Barkat fighting to keep their jobs; polls closed at 10 p.m.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will be honored on Monday as the first recipient of a $1 million award that organizers are calling the “Jewish Nobel Prize.”
Csanád Szegedi, a former leader of the extreme-right Hungarian Jobbik party who last year learnt that he has Jewish ancestry, is converting to Judaism with the assistance of Chabad rabbis in Budapest.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid, appointed Dr Karnit Flug as the new Governor of the Bank of Israel (BOI), Israel’s central bank.
Israel will invest great resources, including a 1,7 billion euros allocation, to resolve the outstanding issues with the Bedouin population in the south of the country, Doron Almog, Director of the Headquarters for Economic Community Development of the Negev Bedouins in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, told the European Parliament.