French President Emmanuel Macron plans to visit Israel next spring in order to promote the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, according to press reports.

Mexico's former former ambassador to UNESCO, Andres Roemer, will be honored by United Nations Watch, the Geneva-based non-governmental human rights group, for refusing to vote an anti-Israeli resolution.

The city of Houston, Texas, which is home to a large Jewish population, is facing heavy flooding from Hurricane Harvey which is now a tropical storm.

The German city of Frankfurt has passed a bill which outlaws funding for activities of the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement.

The European Union is funding illegal projects by NGOs in the West Bank. Such structures have been built without the necessary official permits.

The Swiss foreign ministry confirmed a press report that a 4-country joint mechanism has decided to suspend funding of a Palestinian NGO because of its ties with terrorism.

Israel can learn from the European Union how to fight terrorism and not only the other way around, said EU Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen who is to leave his post at the end of this month after a 4-year term.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will discuss the Middle East, and in particular the growing influence of Iran in Syria, with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they meet on Wednesday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

‘’This evening we again saw that terror strikes everywhere, the civilized world must fight it together in order to defeat,’’ said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a first statement on the terror attack in the Spanish city which claimed the lives of at least 13 people and injured more than 100.