Prime Minister's Bureau confirmed that the National Security Council is discussing alternatives ahead of September, and would present them to the political echelon for a decision when it is done.

Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, said that it shredded in the 1990s files relating to Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, confirming a report on Spiegel's online edition.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he favours improving his country’s relations with Turkey but he sees ''no reason'' for Israel to apologize for the 2010 Gaza-bound flotilla incidents.

Jens Stoltenberg says in a press conference that the bombing and shooting that left at least 91 people dead are a ''a national tragedy.''

An American Orthodox Jewish man reportedly bought the diaries of notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele in a controversial auction.

The Moscow Jewish Community Center hosted a delegation from the Jewish Federations of North America - the largest Jewish charitable organization in the world, uniting 157 Jewish federations in the United States and Canada.

Pope Benedict XVI will meet Jewish, Muslim and fellow Christian leaders during a visit to his native Germany in September, according to a schedule released by the German Episcopal Conference Wednesday.

Intelligence assessment says Iran's president is in favor of shedding secrecy, but clerical leadership - fearing international reaction - opposes such a move.

An important event took place Jewish inmates at Prison number 8, located near Ulan Ude, the capital of Buryatia.

A week after the grisly murder of an eight-year-old Hasidic boy in Brooklyn, a New York councilman Wednesday proposed a law that would set up safe havens for lost children throughout the city.