The Israel Air Force attacked a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip before dawn on Monday, after a Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants struck an open field in a kibbutz near the southern city of Ashkelon a day earlier.
The Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Baku has launched its pre-Passover campaign. As part of the campaign, two tons of matzah that were sent to Azerbaijan from Israel as a gift from the Ohr Avner Foundation, were distributed.
The tiny Islamist faction Ansar al-Sunna took responsibility for the Qassam rocket attack that took the life of a Thai farm worker yesterday in Netiv Ha'asara.
Israel is willing to carry out trust-building moves in the West Bank in order to facilitate peace talks with the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday.
"Delicate issues" including the role of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust were at the heart of talks in Rome between the International Jewish Committee for Inter-Religious Consultations (IJCIC), a Jewish interfaith umbrella body, and Vatican officials.
The Anti-Defamation League said a top U.S. general's analysis of the role of the Israeli-Arab conflict in frustrating the U.S. mission in the Middle East was "dangerous and counterproductive."
