Gunfire, artillery shells come across Syrian border near soldiers patrolling in Golan; IDF fires missiles at source of artillery fire, recording direct hit; Israel reports border infraction to United Nations.

The European Parliament (EP) is due to debate Hungary’s recent controversial constitutional amendments at next week’s plenary session in Strasbourg, amid ongoing concern from the EU institutions as to “whether these changes respect EU law”.

Leaders of a Polish nationalist movement said a historian’s claims that Jews helped perpetrate the Holocaust were “factual” and “necessary.”

Israel’s entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest has been thwarted in her attempt to champion disgraced fashion designer John Galliano, after the Israel Broadcasting Agency (IBA) declared such a move the move would be inappropriate ''at a time when racism and anti-Semitism is rampant in Europe”.

Support for firing rockets from Gaza into Israel has dropped sharply, from 74% in December 2012, to 38% now, survey conducted by Jerusalem Media and Communications Center shows; 80% back non-violent ''resistance'' against Israel.

New York man was arrested for hate crimes after 12 mezuzahs were vandalized in Brooklyn.

The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has welcomed new regulations by the government which soften previously envisaged language for labeling imported goods from Israeli West Bank settlements.

The Chief Rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim announced his resignation from office Thursday before a specially-convened meeting of the Central Consistoire of France.

A delegation of imams from Israel was on a week-long official visit to France to meet with leaders of the Jewish and Muslim communities, Ynet news website reported.

Jewish life has returned to a place infamous for its decimation - Oswiecim, Poland, also commonly known as Auschwitz - when dozens of young people from across Poland who recently discovered their Jewish roots came together last weekend for an educational seminar.