The head of Yesh Atid has the power to reset the national agenda, making him the most influential Jew in the world; US Treasury Secretary Lew, PM Netanyahu, President Peres and Women of the Wall's Hoffman round out top 5.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for talks expected to focus on Moscow’s reported plans to deliver advanced S-300 antimissile batteries to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a longtime ally of Russia.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, holds Monday an event posthumously honoring Ludwika & Zygmunt Szostak from Poland as Righteous Among the Nations.
A Portuguese rabbi and a Moroccan diplomat stood shoulder to shoulder in a Catholic cemetery here while 200 mourners howled in grief as they buried a resident of this island off the western coast of Africa.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton declared herself “shocked” after twin car bombs exploded in the Turkish border town of Reyhlanli claiming the lives of 46 people Saturday.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor spoke of the Jewish State’s precarious position at the heart of Middle East terrorism as he told a UN Security Council meeting on counterterrorism that terrorism “is a growth industry working around the clock to expand into new markets.''
The Vienna Jewish Choir, which plays a vital part in making Jewish culture an integral part of life in Vienna again, hosted in the Austrian capital the first European Jewish Choral Festival with a comprehensive repertoire of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino songs.
