Major routes in capital to be blocked as tens of thousands expected to gather to bid farewell to Shmuel Auerbach, head of radical, anti-conscription 'Jerusalem Faction'

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Members of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach's anti-conscription 'Jerusalem Faction' use eulogies to call on ultra-Orthodox to shun army offices

Turki al-Sheikh suggests England or US host soccer tournament if FIFA decides to take away hosting duties from Gulf state

As the government prepares to vote on animal-rights legislation to prohibit kosher and halal slaughter, opposition lawmaker Michal Kaminski says country is 'making a mistake'

Sex scandals, serial gaffes and legal woes haven't kept flamboyant tycoon and his center-right Forza Italia from leading race ahead of March 4 vote

Residents of Eastern Ghouta doubt Security Council resolution will be implemented, while UN diplomats say it was 'watered down' to avoid Russia veto

When the jeweler told me his grandfather and father saved 24 Jewish families during the 1929 pogrom