After 17-year-old Israeli won gold medal at Jiu-Jitsu World Championship in Abu Dhabi, his Kazakh competitor knelt during the anthem.

A French court In Wednesday sentenced the killer of elderly Jewish woman Mireille Knoll to life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, AFP reported.The murderer, Yacine Mihoub, was convicted of the murder of the 85-year-old who was stabbed 11 times and whose body was partly burned after her Paris apartment was set alight in 2018.

The Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister have decided to promote the law, but it will not apply retroactively.

MK Ibtisam Mara'ana (Labor) responded In Wednesday evening to the vote by members of the Religious Zionist Party in favor of establishing a hospital in the Arab city of Sakhnin."I do not believe that [Itamar] Ben Gvir and [Bezalel] Smotrich really care about the city - they do not care about Arab society. It is a product of parliamentary work by people who are not interested in serious work. Let them come to the committees," the MK said in an interview with Galei Tzahal (Army Radio).

Two leaders of the extremist Jewish sect Lev Tahor were convicted Wednesday of kidnapping and child sexual exploitation crimes, prosecutors said, according to The Associated Press.In a release, US Attorney Damian Williams announced the verdict against Nachman Helbrans and Mayer Rosner.

Senior Yamina officials outraged after voting against regulation of young settlements, while Ra'am MK voted along with the opposition.

Iran"s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said In Wednesday Iran is ready to reach a "good agreement" In the nuclear issue at negotiations due to get underway in Vienna later this month, AFP reported.Amir-Abdollahian said in a tweet his deputy and chief negotiator Ali Bagheri was "engaged in successful talks in Europe" where he is visiting London, Paris and Berlin this week.

B’nai Brith Canada praises owners of three antique stores in Edmonton for removing Nazi memorabilia from their shelves.