Sarkozy will be missed in Israel where he was always seen as a friendly president without too many demands.

Richard Prasquier, head of CRIF, writes in Haaretz op-ed that he is worried by a possible victory by Francois Hollande.

Two leaders call on Assad to comply with a UN-backed peace plan, also say they would apply sanctions on Iran for as long as Tehran did not meet its international obligations.

Sarkozy urges television networks not to show the footage of three deadly shootings in southern France filmed by gunman Mohamed Merah, who used a camera strapped to his body while carrying out the killings.

According to security officials, Mohamed Merah entered Israel after crossing the Allenby Bridge from Jordan in September 2010 where he was investigated by the Shin Bet,

Eva Sandler, wife and mother of three victims of the Toulouse shootings, speaks about her loss, claiming that she worried more about anti-Semitism in France than terrorism in Israel.

Four anti-terrorist judges would lead inquiry into gunman Mohamed Merah's killing of three Jewish children, a rabbi and three soldiers, and investigate his elder brother Abdelkader Merah for complicity.

Mohamed Merah, a French citizen of Algerian origin, was arrested in Afghanistan for planting bombs but later escaped in mass prison break.

Police beef up security around Jewish institutions in southern France; bodies of the victims scheduled to arrive in Israel on Tuesday for burial.

If this incident is indeed a hate crime, as it appears to be, the Jews are yet again set to lose from France's towering ethnic tensions, only that this time the flames are fanned by the president himself.

Frenc FM Alain Juppe says hardening sanctions preferation to the 'irreparable' consquences military intervention would have on the region.

Ron Prosor says he arrived at a luncheon for leader of France's exreme-right party by 'accident' and left immediately; French media, however, reproted that Prosor stayed for 20 minutes and shook Le Pen's hand.

Politicians like Le Pen have exchanged the Jewish demon-enemy for the criminal-immigrant Muslim, but they have not really discarded their ideological DNA.

President Obama meets with Abbas in effort to convince him not to seek Security Council recognition, warning that U.S. would use its veto power to block it.

In a roadmap for peace, Sarkozy said negotiations should begin within one month, a deal on borders and security should happen within six months and a definitive agreement be reached within a year.