A vast archive of documents linked to the Holocaust said Monday it would preserve 300,000 original prisoner files from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany that are disintegrating.
Islamic Jihad, Hamas leaders urge "all armed factions" to kidnap Israeli soldiers to use as bargaining chips to free Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
The plaintiffs say they intend to file the lawsuit next week in U.S. court, under a U.S. law enabling them to sue foreign states in matters pertaining to the Holocaust.
Israel’s President Shimon Peres and Music legend Bob Dylan as well as writer Toni Morrison are among 13 people who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honor, the White House said Thursday.
Decision comes after petition was filed by two Israeli women whose conversions were retroactively overturned by rabbinical courts, 15 years after the conversions had been recognized by the state.
Richard Prasquier, head of CRIF, the umbrella organization representing the French Jewish community in the political field, has expressed concern about the possible influence of violently anti-Israel leftist parties on Socialist candidate Francois Hollande if he is elected president on May 6 like polls seem to predict.
Daraa, home to 100,000 people, and the place in which the Syrian uprising began last year, bears all the features of a town wasting away as a full-blown civil war rages.
Israel’s President Shimon Peres on Thursday distanced himself from the Israeli premier's comparison between the Holocaust and the threat posed by Iran's nuclear programme.
