The Knesset on Wednesday approved by 71 votes to 23 an agreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the opposition Kadima party to form Israel's seventh national unity government.
Israelis are divided on premier Benjamin Netanyahu's move to form a shock coalition government with the Kadima opposition party and scrap plans for early elections, several polls showed on Wednesday.
Jewish leaders and politicians in Greece lashed out Wednesday at a neo-Nazi party which won seats in parliament elections on Sunday, as the country marked the anniversary of the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany.
Senior Haaretz analyst Yossi Verter says that, after getting over initial feelings of disgust and nausea, you have to admit that Netanyahu, again, taught us all a lesson. He's Israel's number one politician, no doubt - by a mile.
The leader of CRIF, the umbrella representative group of French Jewry, said he is sure that President-elect Francois Hollande ''will take a strong stance against anti-Semitic acts in France.''
Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.
Justices criticize government for wishing to reopen closed cases over changed policy, adding that the state had not provided the kind of extraordinary circumstances that would force revisiting a court verdict.
