The fifth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism (GFCA), a biennial gathering for assessing the state of anti-Semitism globally, will take place next week in Jerusalem.

The agreement, which was struck just two hours before the final deadline for Netanyahu to cobble together a ruling government, paves the way for a narrow, 61-seat coalition.

Ethiopian-Israelis have come out en masse in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in protest of an unprovoked beating of an Ethiopian soldier by police.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to present his 61-member coalition to President Reuven Rivlin later Wednesday, ahead of a midnight deadline to present his government.

Marking the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII on May 8-9, 1945 (VE Day), the Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II will hold a State ceremony in cooperation with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces next Wednesday deadline to form a coalition government, Avigdor Lieberman, current Foreign Minister and leader of the Yisrael Beitenu party, said he was resigning from his post and that he would not join the new coalition.

Meretz leader Zahava Gal-On took aim at the premier's intention to pass a law allowing Israelis abroad to vote in parliamentary elections.

European, int'l diplomats mediating between parties on cease-fire, opening of seaport and release of Israeli soldiers' bodies, Ahmed Yousef tells Ma'an.

Israel has stayed away from gatherings of NPT signatories since 1995 in protest at resolutions it regarded as biased against it.

Israel is the 11th-happiest country in the world, according to the 2014 annual World Happiness Report released on Friday.