On the day commemorating the release of Mariupel, Ukraine from the Nazi conqueror and the rescue of the last of its Jews – a new Torah scroll was introduced into the community’s Synagogue and JCC.
Ehud Olmert was once described as the finest politician Israel had ever produced, but like many of his predecessors, he has seen he reputation dragged through the mud by a succession of graft scandals.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor stormed out of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address of a high level rule of law meeting at the UN General Assembly Monday in protest at the inclusion of a representative from a regime where “there is no law and no justice”.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton issued a statement calling on “all donors to step in and help” the financially ailing Palestinian Authority (PA), the economic viability of which she stressed was “crucial” to resolving the deadlocked Middle East peace process.
British coalition partners the Liberal Democrats drew criticism for scheduling a meeting of the Liberal Democrats Friends of Palestine on the outskirts of its party conference Sunday, at which a banished party member and fierce Israel critic made a keynote address on “Britain’s historic responsibility to the Palestinian People”.
A Salafi jihadi group based in Sinai and affiliated with al Qaida claimed responsibility for the border attack which killed an IDF soldier on Friday, SITE Intelligence Group reported.
The European Parliament announced it would be represented at the opening of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York Tuesday, a part of the EU’s attempts to assert its continued validity on the global stage.
