PM likens Iran to 'suicide bomber;' says Iranians will never get rid of tyranny if regime gets bomb; makes comments during US media blitz preceding Thursday night flight back to Israel.

Jewish-American author Philip Roth has received the Legion d’honneur, France’s highest honor, during a ceremony last week in New York.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met Wednesday in Cairo with the leadre of the Muslim Brotherhood in a move viewed as a new attempt to broach a settlement between the transitional government and the Islamist group following the ousting Mohamed Morsi from the presidency in July, the Egyptian media reported.

The European Union’s Middle East envoy, Andreas Reinicke, told The Jerusalem Post that he was “confident” Israel and the EU would come to an agreement regarding the EU’s settlement guidelines that would enable Israel’s participation in EU’s flagship research and development programme Horizon 2020.

Hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned about the danger of a nuclear Iran in his UN General Assembly speech in New York, Iran was elected as rapporteur for the committee responsible for Disarmament and International Security, a body that deals with all matters regarding disarmament — including nuclear weapons.

Prominent Holocaust historian Israel Gutman has died in Jerusalem, at the age of 90.

FM: Hatred does not disappear; Lapid recounts experience of his father, who spent the Holocaust in a Budapest ghetto.

In New York, Charlotte Knobloch, a German Jewish leader and former vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, was presented Tuesday with the Distinguished Humanitarian Award of the Bnai Zion Foundation.

Iran ''happy'' about Israel's aggressive discourse toward Tehran.

“We are proud to see that the Government of Canada, through Minister Baird, is not being fooled by Iran’s machinations,” said Frank Dimant, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada in a comment on Canada’s Foreign Minister, John Baird address to to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.