Israel reacts to riots at Makhachkala (Dagestan, Russia) airport

Israel is monitoring events in Dagestan and expects Russian authorities to ensure the safety of Jews and Israelis in light of reports of unrest at Makhachkala airport, according to a joint statement from the Prime Minister's Office and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Israel always ready for dialogue with Russia: PM - China.org.cn

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Tuesday that his country is always ready for dialogue with Russia.

Netanyahu to European Jews after Copenhagen Attacks: ‘Israel’ Your Home

Like his call following Paris attacks last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged European Jews to move to Israel after Jewish man was killed in an attack outside Copenhagen's main synagogue...

Belgium prevented jihadist attacks, newspaper says. (90 Belgians who fought in Syria have returned to the country)

Belgium has thwarted attacks by jihadist fighters returning from war-torn Syria, the L'Echo newspaper reported on Saturday.

According to the report, security and justice sources said the planned attacks were similar in their scope to the one carried out by Mehdi Nemmouche at the Jewish Museum of Brussels on May 24.

‘Farewell to Salonica’

‘Farewell to Salonica: City at the Crossroads’ by Leon Sciaky (Haus Books, $25, 262 pages)

If I could travel back in time to any city at any historical moment, Salonica at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries would be near the top of the list. Distant from the surveillance and authority of Istanbul, perched on the edge of Europe, Salonica was an archetypal Ottoman metropolis, a cosmopolitan mélange tugged in conflicting directions by the forces of history. The city - majority Jewish for many years after the wave of migration from Spain in the 15th century - had become a crucible for dangerous and revolutionary new ideas and movements by the end of the 1800s, a whirlpool of conflicting forces tugging at the status quo.

Turkish deputy prime minister denies remarks on 'Jewish diaspora'

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay has denied media reports that he blamed the Jewish diaspora for the Gezi unrest.

Atalay’s press office said in a written statement today that the minister had not used such an expression.

“There are some circles that are jealous of Turkey’s growth. They are all uniting, on one side the Jewish diaspora,” Cihan News Agency quoted him in a video as saying on July 1 in the Central Anatolian province of Kırıkkale in an earlier report.

Before the statement from Atalay’s office, the Turkish Jewish community issued a press release on its website, saying they were trying to obtain more information about the remarks with regard to the details, meaning and content.