The head of Vienna’s Jewish community (IKG) has claimed that the number of anti-Semitic incidents doubled in Austria in 2012, despite the country receiving an influx of Jewish immigration from fellow EU member Hungary, which has experienced a more marked escalation of anti-Jewish feeling in recent months.
Bulgarian authorities confirmed Thursday they had identified one of three suspects wanted in connection with the July bomb attack on Israeli tourists in the Black Sea city of Burgas.
Newly translated interviews by MEMRI show Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi opposing two-state solution, saying ''Either [you accept] the Zionists and everything they want, or else it is war.''
Despite a drop in support over the past few weeks, the joint Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu list is projected to win 34 seats in the 22 January general elections. The two parties currently jointly hold 42 seats.
Israeli media were left debating the latest flare-up in tensions between President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud government.