While Moscow imagines a Swiss-style canton arrangement, there are countless holes emerging in the cease-fire between the Assad regime and rebel forces.

The Australians had to postpone a visit by the Iranian foreign minister and make other schedule arrangements to accommodate Reuven Rivlin's travel plans. Imagine their surprise when the Israeli president chose to fly to Moscow instead.

Environmental Protection Ministry says it will increase incentives and give towns more autonomy over waste recycling process.

Arrivals / Departures: A German studying radical Islam travels to Israel to see what the fuss is all about; an Israeli returning from Budapest says his army experience helped him cope with cancer.

International nonprofit Four Paws provides food and medical aid to the declining population of six Gaza zoos, including at ‘one of the worst in the world.’

Piotr Rybak set fire to an effigy of an Orthodox Jew in Wroclaw in November, but denies any wrong-doing.

The discovery of human remains in the Danube River, apparently connected to a 1945 bridge explosion, has reopened old wounds concerning Hungary's acknowledgment of the Jewish identity of its Holocaust victims.

Non-Jewish women who follow their partners to Israel sometimes discover that the man they married is domineering and violent. But those who manage to escape often find the state unsupportive of women without residency status.