LONDON (Press Release)–Following the issuing of an arrest warrant for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni by a London court, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband has declared it was important that senior figures from Israel could visit the UK and have a “proper dialogue”. His deputy in the Foreign Office, Ivan Lewis, said that the […]

GAZA CITY (WJC)–Tens of thousands of Palestinians turned out in the Gaza Strip to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Islamist terrorist movement Hamas. Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, said his organization would not recognize Israel and would not stop fighting against the Jewish state. Supporters filled the streets,

LONDON (WJC)–Israel officials have strongly criticized an arrest warrant issued by a British magistrates court against the former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni over her role during the Gaza war earlier this year. “The current situation has become intolerable, it is time that it change,” Israel’s ambassador in London, Ron Prosor, told a radio station.

PAMPLOMA, Spain (WJC)—The first-division Spanish soccer Club Atlético Osasuna is facing disciplinary action after the referee at the team’s recent game against Real Mallorca, Alfonso Álvarez, reported that home fans had subjected Mallorca’s Israeli goalkeeper Dudu Aouate to anti-Semitic abuse. According to referee Álvarez, “From the 14th minute and on five other occasions in the

VIENNA (WJC)–Moments after presiding over a public Chanukah menorah lighting in central Vienna’s Stephansplatz Square on Saturday evening, Dov Gruzman, a rabbi of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, had to be evacuated by ambulance after being attacked by a Palestinian man, who bit his finger. Gruzman, who serves as principal of the Lauder Chabad High School