Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin said calls to draft Israeli Arabs into the army were “hypocrisy,” citing uneven funding of Israel’s Jewish and Arab sectors.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, holds Tuesday a special memorial event to commemorate 70 years since deportation of Polish Jews in the “Generalgouvernment” to the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps in “Operation Reinhard.”
Austria's Jewish community (IKG) said Monday it was working jointly with its German and Swiss counterparts to keep religious circumcision legal, after repeated calls for an end to the practice.
Former Mossad chief questions gov't's ability to act correctly on Iranian threat, saying, "When the gov't has to make decisions on war and peace, it needs wide public support and not to be a captive of sectorial compromises."
The steady stream of US officials visiting Israel continues this week with the imminent tour of Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, who said Sunday that he didn’t believe Israel had reached any decisions regarding its widely speculated plans to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney closed out his campaign visit to Israel with a select fundraising event on Monday morning, during which he paid tribute to Israel’s “economic vitality”.
