President Reuven Rivlin’s office refused to confirm or deny a report that appeared in Yediot Aharonot on Wednesday to the effect that while in Russia last month, Rivlin asked President Vladimir Putin to use his influence with Syria in order to return the remains of master spy Eli Cohen to Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week urged Gen. Martin Dempsey to boost US aid to Syria’s increasingly embattled Druze minority, Haaretz reported Saturday night.
The Foreign Ministry summoned Swedish ambassador to Israel Carl Magnus for reprimand on Wednesday evening after Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom called to investigate the Jewish state for the “execution” of Palestinian terrorists.
Israelis across the country paused for two minutes Monday morning in memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in Europe under Nazi rule as a siren pierced the clear blue sky in an annual marking of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Israel reportedly warned Belgian officials of the numerous security failings at the Brussels airport weeks before a series of deadly bomb blasts ripped through the site on Tuesday.
The staff of Israel’s embassy to Cairo has been recalled over security concerns.
Under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s orders, the Foreign Minister issued a strongly-worded protest letter to all the countries that supported the recent UNESCO decision divorcing the Temple Mount from the Jewish people and treating it only as a Muslim site.
The Israel Prison Service has begun consulting with the Shin Bet to determine how best to keep former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert safe when he begins his prison sentence for corruption in September or possibly later.
Police announced on Thursday after investigation of Shoham Yosef, director of Ayalon Prison in Ramla, that it would recommend prosecuting him on charges of rape and indecent acts while exploiting police power.
Israel has quietly tested ways of defeating an advanced air-defense system that Russia has deployed in the Middle East and that could limit Tel Aviv’s ability to strike in Syria or Iran, military and diplomatic sources said.
