Iran parliament speaker Ali Larijani denies press speculation about Israeli involvement in blast near Tehran that killed high-ranking Revolutionary Guard commander, calling it 'fiction'.

Under the agreement, a caretaker unity government will be established in the coming weeks that will exclude current Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

Speaking to Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Benny Gantz says there is still a chance for West Bank violence over Palestinian disappointment of the statehood bid at UN.

On November 10, in the town of Lubavitch, the Rudnya district of the Smolensk Region, there was a Holocaust memorial was dedicated.

About 100 demonstrators held a peaceful march for tolerance just days after vandals set at least three cars on fire and scrawled Nazi and other anti-Semitic symbols in a Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood.

Speaking to CNN, President advocates for 'moral attack' on Tehran; Peres also rejects notion that Israel stands alone in facing Tehran's nuclear program, says Iran is as global an issue as the economic crisis.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy might visit Israel in January to try to clarify ''misunderstandings'' following comments on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he made recently during a private conversation with US President Barack Obama.

U.S., Turkey also do not seem to support military option against Iranian facilities; EU, U.S. want to impose sanctions, but China, Russia, some Gulf states have trading ties with Iran.

Two bills, expected to strengthen the right's influence in the judicial system, pass first readings; critics slam bills as 'draconian' and 'anti-democratic.'

At the AFIMOLL shopping center in Moscow, which recently opened in the city’s new Moscow-City business district, there is also a newly-opened kosher fast food restaurant known as King Salomon.