Shtetl Skills sessions also tie into the Jewish lunar calendar, often connected to holidays. For example,on Shavuot the Jewish Farm School offers bread making and beer brewing classes.

The Palestinians, he said, are planning to present the ICC with an opinion paper concerning the law and US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The Foreign Ministry said the TIPH staff member had left the country. It added that the staff member was not protected by immunity and it had recommended a policy inquiry.

The Egyptian proposal requires the PA government to incorporate some 20,000 civil servants employed by Hamas after its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007.

Nikki Haley is a darling of the Israel advocacy community.

"It is a new day at the UN," she declared, citing a recent vote in the General Assembly that allowed debate on Hamas' culpability for the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

As Erdogan increases his power, civil society organizations and their members are considered by many as the few remaining sources capable of placing a check on his total control over the country.

The fire in Mati village, some 29 km (18 miles) east of Athens, was by far the country's worst since flames devastated the southern Peloponnese peninsula in August 2007.