Israeli Foreign Policy
After allegations surface that religious passengers aboard an El Al flight became violent towards the crew, rabbi gives airline until Sunday to issue a public apology • Group of platinum and top “haredi” customers to cut up membership cards in protest.
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to postpone the long-awaited unveiling of his Middle East peace plan, Palestinian newspaper reports • Israeli Ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer reportedly recommended the delay to Trump.
A class-action lawsuit seeks compensation for each of the 180 religious passengers aboard flight diverted to Athens to avoid desecrating Shabbat • Religious passengers also want El Al to publicly retract claims that they were violent towards the crew.
While the decision to land caused some further confusion and consternation about how Shabbat would be kept in Athens on about an hour’s notice, the story at that point began to turn from worry and concern to relief and calm.
News outlets accused religious passengers of violent behavior on a delayed El Al flight from New York to Israel last weekend, but Israel Hayom‘s Yehuda Shlezinger was on board and presents eyewitness details that paint a different picture.
They are not the first Iranian nationals to attempt this scam, which is evidently used to gain easy entry to Europe.
He asked the request of Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă as part of the summit meeting of the Craiova State Forum in Varna, Bulgaria. Romania will take over the E.U. presidency on Jan. 1, 2019.
The two nations have had relatively sturdy bilateral ties in the past, but now Brazil’s growing domestic needs may forced it to look beyond Middle East politics.
Omani FM Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah: Israel is a part of the region; the Torah and the Israelite prophets emerged in the Middle East.
Jair Bolsonaro gives his first foreign media interview to “Israel Hayom,” saying he will promote cooperation with Israel • As a sovereign state, Israel is the only one that can decide its capital • “I love the Israeli people and Israel,” he declares.
Angela Merkel lost her mandate as the party’s leader, in large part due to handling of the refugee crisis, and will not seek the chairmanship at the party’s conference in December.
Israelis headed to the polls on Tuesday to vote in municipal elections, with 863 candidates vying for mayoral positions and 3,400 people campaigning to be elected heads of regional councils.
