Far-Right parties celebrated a massive night of victories following sweeping gains in European Union elections. A mix of anti-immigration, anti-EU-integration, and neo-Nazi parties took seats away from the traditional centrist parties in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Austria and elsewhere. Europe’s voters lurched towards the political fringes on...

Pope Francis will host a meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the Vatican next month, according to the Associated Press. SKY News suggested the Holy See may be thinking about taking over from the Americans as the broker of any Israeli-Palestinian talks. The offices...

Israel’s leaders from President Shimon Peres on down roundly condemned the May 24 slaying of three people outside a Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, including an Israeli couple and a museum volunteer. President Peres called upon European leaders to take action against any form of anti-semitism and said, “We must act without hesitation...

The Vatican and Israel are close to a deal on several outstanding issues, The Tower has learned. The announcement of an agreement paving the way to even closer ties could come later this year, possibly as early as June. Among the outstanding discussion points is the status of what Catholics see as...

Lars Faaborg-Andersen, the European Union’s ambassador to Israel, told a press briefing yesterday that the EU was working on legislation to penalize anti-Semitism. According to Ma’ariv (Hebrew link), Faaborg-Andersen said: We take the subject of anti-Semitism very seriously. Several months ago we published a report on the subject, examining anti-Semitism in...

As Iran’s economic situation is in temporary downturn and the country continues propping up the Assad regime in Syria, Tehran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah is increasingly feeling the pinch, according to a report in the May 15 edition of The Daily Star Lebanon. The sources also pointed to the huge financial impact...