IDF chief tells Knesset a Kornet missile was fired more than two weeks ago at tank on the Gaza border, penetrated its outer shell, but did not explode.
IDF strikes multiple Gaza target after some 30 mortar shells and 10 Qassam rockets fired over last two weeks; IDF believes increase related to Hamas' despair over stalled prisoner swap negotiations and lack of progress in reconciling with Fatah.
MK Michael Eitan writes on his website that withdrawal is inevitable and the country must be honest with itself and allies, suggests replacing residents with IDF troops.
Israel’s ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, has warned that Israel cannot rely on the support of European leaders in the battle against the deligitimization and demonization of the Jewish state, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
-A multimedia exhibition examining how Jews pieced their lives back together after WWII in Holland has opened recently in the Joods Historisch Museum, the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.
An appeals court in Creteil, near Paris, upheld the convictions of 16 people for their roles in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a young French Jew, handing down sentences of up to 18 years in prison.
Israeli officials fear that Washington will not rush to exercise its veto power against such a resolution, which calls for international pressure for construction freeze.
The United States should shun events next year at the United Nations commemorating the 2001 Durban Declaration on racism, 18 US senators said Friday, citing worries over anti-Semitic and anti-US rhetoric.
