Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition announced Monday plans to dissolve the country’s parliament and hold a snap general election in April, after his government was significantly weakened more than a month ago when a key coalition partner resigned.

“We are delighted to be holding the festival once again in Jerusalem,'' said the founder of Limmud FSU Chaim Chesler.

Benjamin Netanyahu will choose not to appoint Hotovely, because appointing her could have disappointed whoever was not promoted.

Billionaire George Soros named Person of the Year by the paper, which calls him 'the standard bearer of liberal democracy and open society.'

Fresh tensions have broken out in ties between Moscow and Jerusalem, already entangled in a row over the downing of a Russian aircraft in Syria, this time over the Palestine issue and the Russian-Ukraine conflict.

The Russian eastern Mediterranean naval presence is growing. Russia secured for itself the naval base at Tarsus and the air base at Khmeimim in Syria.

Such a request, made by the Russians, carries a lot of weight due to the influence Moscow has on Hezbollah.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog in Moscow.