The Israeli army struck a Syrian army position Thursday afternoon after a stray rocket fell on the Golan Heights. Missile alert sirens sounded as spillover fire from Syria’s civil war landed in an uninhabited area of the Northern Golan Heights.
Bulgaria announced this week that it will join Britain, Germany, Austria and Romania in adopting the working definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Rembrance Alliance.
''If these groups had spent the last 100 years making the positive case for Palestine that we make for Israel, there might now be two states living side by side and in peace,’’ said Jonathan Arkush, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Hamas must disarm and recognize the state of Israel if it wishes to play any role in the Palestinian government, United States’ Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt said.
Thousands of Jews of all walks of life, young and old, men and women, single, married and entire families turned up for the final celebrations of the fall Jewish holidays of Sukkot and Simhat Torah across hundreds of FSU communities this year.
Excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority, with the participation of volunteers, have uncovered in Jerusalem large portions of courses of the Western Wall that have been hidden for 1,700 years.
“Israel will never stop trying to find a way to bring an end to the tragedy between us and the Palestinians,’’ Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin told the Christian Media Conference in Jerusalem.
The European Union has asked the Israeli authorities to reconsider their decisions to build thousands of units in the West Bank which, it said in a statement, ‘’ are detrimental to on-going efforts towards meaningful peace talks.’’
