Silvan Shalom

The flamboyant wife of Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom published an "inappropriate joke" Sunday about US President Barack Obama on her Twitter account, only to later delete it and apologise.

Israel will stop cutting power to Palestinian cities over unpaid bills and will deduct funds from tax money to prevent the debt increasing, a government official said on Feb. 26.
      
The official also said Israel would connect water to a Palestinian city so that it can be inhabited, after a minister's objection had been overruled.        

Israel has asked the European Union to back the East Med Pipeline project which would connect the natural gas fields in Israel and Cyprus to the European market through Greece, Kathimerini understands.