Chabad of Russia, which enjoys friendly relations with President Vladimir Putin, strongly protested the US rabbi’s expulsion.

'The battlefield is now in the civilian arena.'

'The story we really tell is about the power of music and spiritual life in the world, and how we need to treat that power with extreme care.'

The incident marked the second time in less than a month that Jewish children were targeted and violently attacked.

“Peace only has a chance of success through a respectful, continuous dialogue and through continuous negotiation,” Greenblatt said.

Rabbi Hartman: Israel society becoming more xenophobic, calls rejection of asylum seekers embarrassing

Lebanon is on the Levant Basin in the eastern Mediterranean where a number of big sub-sea gas fields have been discovered since 2009 near the Israel-Lebanon border.

The pragmatic Sunni Arab countries – Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and several of the Gulf States – have understood that the main threat to the region, is not Israel.