Foreign Minister Wang Yi says US-Russian deal to destroy Syrian chemical weapons ‘creates new prospects for resolving’ the issue

Opposition says chemical weapons prohibition not enough, wants to force political solution on regime to end civil war

Ron Pundak, who initiated the secret channel that led to the Rabin-Arafat handshake 20 years ago, argues that without the process he birthed, things today would be even worse

Islamic faithful in Indonesia plan a pageant to rival the beauty contest set to be held in the country, Al Arabiya reports

The Guardian weighs in with leading figures in the UK’s Jewish community

MK says Assad’s true intentions will be known within a week, and Israel will not sign UN convention until region ‘looks like Benelux’

Living in Israel, the one place where it’s possible to not be a Jew, except for one day a year

Get-together will be first between top diplomats since London suspended ties over a 2011 attack on its embassy in Tehran