The French driver of a car involved in the hit-and-run death of Lee Zeitouni, a 25-year-old Israeli woman in Tel Aviv in September 2011, was indicted on Tuesday, the Paris Prosecutor spokesperson announced.
Defense minister says West Bank settlements are important to Israel's homefront defense, need to be strengthened; settler leader says an interim agreement with temporary borders would harm Israel's security.
The conflicts currently engulfing the Middle East and in particular Syria and the tense relationship between the European Union and Israel were the main points of the discussion between Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder in Rome on Tuesday.
As US gears up for possible strike on Syria, defense minister urges calm, says Israelis ''do not need to run to stock up on gas masks”; emphasizes that attack against Syria is an American operation based on US concerns.