Israeli police held back thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesters who tried to prevent a liberal Jewish women’s group from praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Friday, the first time police have come down on the side of the women and not the protesters.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is ''concerned'' by developments over the past week in East Jerusalem and the West Bank ''which have increased tensions on the ground and risk undermining current efforts to re-launch peace talks'', her spokesperson said.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen sought to extricate his organisation from accusations of complicity in Israel’s reported air assault on Syria Monday, at a joint debate on the future of European defence cooperation with NATO with the European Parliament’s defence and foreign affairs committees.
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) sought to alleviate concerns of Israeli citizens in the Golan Heights Monday, after two mortar shells fired from neighbouring Syria exploded close to the Ramat Magshimim settlement, as GOC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Yair Golan insisted “there are no winds of war” in Northern Israel.
Israeli and Turkey reached a draft agreement to compensate the families of nine Turkish activists killed in the raid of the Mavi Marmara ship as it attempted to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza in May 2010, and mend a three-year diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
According to Galei Tsahal, Israel’a army radio, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a freeze in tenders for West Bank settlement construction amid an American push to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The Syrian regime has reportedly prepared to launch missiles on Israel, after the Jewish State struck a series of targets in Syria in consecutive overnight attacks Saturday and Sunday.
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu marked the annual Jerusalem Day festivities by paying tribute to the Jewish State’s founding father Theodor Herzl at the newly-inaugurated museum in his name Sunday.
