Senior German official urged U.S. to threaten withdrawing its veto on an anti-Israel vote at the UN.

Tamir Pardo, a former deputy director of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency Mossad, has been tapped by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as successor to current Mossad Director Meir Dagan

Daniel Diker, a noted foreign policy and media expert, was nominated as the next Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress (WJC).

Islamist leader Ismail Haniyeh says he would accept a deal with Israel based on 1967 borders and denies that Gaza has become a stronghold for al-Qaida.

Turkey's Islamist-rooted Prime Minister ''simply hates Israel'' on religious grounds, US cables released by WikiLeaks say, reflecting growing US misgivings over Ankara's foreign policy.

Relations between Israel and Germany are excellent, between the governments as well as between peoples, with flourishing cooperation in many area, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Avigdor LEiberman said after a meeting in Je rusalem with visiting German President Christian Wulff.

State Department expresses disappointment after reported arrests and intimidation of opposition supporters and banning of monitors.

Cable recounts February 2009 meeting with Senator Benjamin Cardin, where premier laid out economic peace plan and said he did not want to govern West Bank and Gaza.

Richard Goldman, one of the most influential Jewish philanthropists in the country, died early Monday morning in his native San Francisco. He was 90.

In message read out at UN headquarters, Palestinian president calls for interference in deteriorating talks to end 'viscous settlement campaign.'