Turkey has for the first time threatened to break diplomatic ties with Israel over its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May. Turkey’s foreign minister said a break could only be averted if Israel either apologised or accepted the outcome of an international inquiry into the raid. Read the full story

Israeli police have recommended that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman face fresh charges in a corruption scandal. Read the full story

Australia’s government said on Monday it had ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake passports in the assassination of a top Hamas militant in Dubai in January. Read the full story

The Foreign Ministry issued an uncharacteristically sharp response on Wednesday to a Russian and Turkish call to include Hamas in the diplomatic process, drawing parallels between Hamas and Chechen terrorists and saying it was wrong to distinguish between “good” and “bad” terrorists. Read the full story

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says Tel Aviv would annul previous peace accords with Palestinians if they decide to go ahead with plans to unilaterally declare an independent state. Read the full story

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has refused to visit the grave of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. Read the full story

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was questioned by police on Tuesday on suspicion of having received in 2008 an illegal tip-off informing him of the police’s suspicions against him, and allegedly allowing him to subvert the course of the investigation. Read the full story

The Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, will neither deny nor accept responsibility for the murder of Hamas weapons dealer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. But one of the alleged Dubai assassins, a man working under the alias Michael Bodenheimer, left traces in Cologne, Germany and Herzliya, Israel. Read the full story

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is expected to face a barrage of criticism from EU foreign ministers for the alleged use of forged EU passports in the killing of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, on the sidelines of the monthly EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Monday. Read the full story

Syria’s official newspaper Tishreen said Saturday that while Damascus is ready to make peace with Israel, it is also prepared for war. Read the full story