Priebke had been under house arrest for killing of 335 civilians in 1944, in one of Italy's worst WWII atrocities.

Russia’s fourth largest city has a Jewish population of approximately 6,500

A retired Israel Defense Forces (IDF) colonel, Seraya Opher, was killed by two Palestinians in a terrorist attack outside a home in the West Bank overnight Thursday.

As Iran and representatives from the US, Russia, Britain, France, China and Germany are preparing to meet next week in Geneva for renewed talks on the Iranian nuclear programme, Israel’s Prime Minister told the West : ‘’Don't say I didn't warn you’’ on Tehran’s continued activities to enrich uranium.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras refused to cover his head at a Yad Vashem memorial ceremony.

'NYT' quotes Israeli official as saying US ''playing with fire''; Kerry says US still committed to helping gov't.

Trial in absentia of IDF brass involved in flotilla raid resumes.

Pope Francis told Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein he would visit Israel, but he did not mention a date.

‘’It is safer to be Jew in New York than in Israel,’’ Israel’s Finance Minister Yair Lapid said at the 92Y Jewish community center in Manhattan.

For the first time, a poll shows France's extreme-right National Front leading over the two big mainstream political parties in view of he European Parliament elections in May 2014.