Avigdor Lieberman

Israel called Feb. 3 for the shelving of a UN inquiry into its war last summer in the Gaza Strip after the probe's head quit over Israeli accusations of conflict of interest.
      

Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, officials said on Jan. 18.
   

Senior Turkish and Israeli senior officials have started a war of words over the Israeli prime minister's controversial participation in a massive anti-terror demonstration in Paris, with his Turkish counterpart comparing his operations in Gaza to jihadist terrorists that killed 17 people last week in the French capital.

France asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay away from a weekend solidarity march in Paris but he ignored the request and attended anyway, Israeli media reported on Monday.
      

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Jan. 10 told Jews in France, after 17 people were killed there in Islamist attacks, that Israel is their home and his government wants them to immigrate.     
  

Israel does not intend to recognize the killings of Armenians in 1915 as a genocide this year, Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Rafael Harpaz has said, the Azerbaijani website Trend reported on Jan. 8.

?Israel is a democratic country. Everybody has two opinions [on the issue], not one,? Harpaz said.

A Palestinian bid to secure a U.N. resolution setting an end date for the occupation failed to pass a Security Council vote in a move Israel hailed Dec. 31 as a victory.

China, France and Russia were among the eight countries that voted in favour of the text, but the resolution fell short of winning the nine "yes" votes necessary for adoption within the 15-member council.        

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras called his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Athens, it emerged on Saturday.

Nobody was hurt in the predawn raid on Friday, when more than 50 shots were fired from Kalashnikov assault rifles at the building near central Athens.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will pay an official visit to Israel on December 1 and 2, during which he will confer with the country's top officials.

PM's visit to Israel to be "historic" - ambassador

BELGRADE -- The forthcoming visit of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić to Israel will be a historic one, Israeli Ambassador in Serbia Yossef Levy stated on Wednesday.

He underscored that he strongly believes in the economic cooperation between the two friendly countries.