Europe

President Putin's government warned Russians to stay home on New Year's Eve if they wish to be safe.

An Israeli company has been authorized to export plastic foam safety surfaces for childrens’ playgrounds to countries in the European Union.

Major cities in Europe are on high alert in response to a warning by a "friendly" intelligence service.

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has offered a cash payment to Jews from Ukraine to move to Israel. The Jewish Agency criticizes the program.

U.S. and other Western embassies issue security alerts for citizens in the Sanlitun district of Beijing on December 25.

A Japanese journalist is being held hostage by a terrorist group in Syria; execution is threatened if ransom is not paid.

Obama is not popular in either country, but to put it in positive terms, the U.S. President is a tiny bit more popular with Iranians than with Israelis.

Mahmoud Abbas proclaims the 'Palestinian Authority' no longer exists -- it has officially been replaced by the "State of Palestine."

The Greek parliament voted unanimously to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a new country in a move with no teeth.

“We know that Albania is a good friend of Israel,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said to his Albanian counterpart. “We’re celebrating now 25 years of our relations.”

Ukraine's "Rada" (parliament) considers using the Israeli Knesset attendance board model to monitor lawmaker participation.

A bomb scare on an Air France jet en route to Paris prove to be fake, again, for a fourth time.

An Air France passenger jet is again diverted from its flight to Paris after a suspicious device is found aboard the aircraft.

The lock to a shul in southeastern Paris was coated with poison, sickening more than a dozen congregants.

Two German men are being tried for planning ISIS-inspired attacks against Israeli institutions in Berlin.

A private foundation in Hungary plans to erect a statue to honor a notorious anti-Semite in a town east of Budapest.

The report from the al-Sisi government totally contradicts a Russian investigation that concluded a bomb brought down the plane that killed 224 people.

The French Jewish group CRIF said the defeat of the National Front brings an "opportunity to effectively address the causes of growth of extremes."

The masked terrorist escaped after stabbing an elementary school teacher in the throat.

These elections may spell a bitter end to the rule of the once-powerful Socialist Party, which currently controls all but one of France's regions, but which came in third place in the first round.

The Danish parliament supports “problem organizations” such as Badil, a group promoting “a de-Zionized Palestine of a single state.”

He also told his defense ministry to "get tough" with anyone who threatens Russian soldiers in Syria.

Jews in Geneva are warned to be "vigilant" as the Swiss city goes on high alert. Police hunt for 4 men with links to ISIS.

Illegal migrants warn European nations, "Open or Die" at a border that is closed with barbed wire.

The event shocked the Copenhagen Jewish community, and shook all of Denmark.

An unspecified threat sent an Air France flight to Paris from San Francisco to Montreal instead.

Israeli experts confirm ISIS is armed with chemical weapons and add it is a de facto state, with its own license plates and gold coins.

Moscow advised citizens not to travel during the holidays due to supposed health risks in the U.S. and security risks elsewhere. Israel, chummy with Moscow, was not mentioned.

Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration party appears on the way to its best result since it was founded by Marine's father, back in 1972.

26.1% have a German citizenship; 54% live with a spouse who is a German national; and 54.4% have parents or grandparents who are Holocaust survivors.