While the controversial leader who has made antisemitic and other racist comments in the past has expressed certainty that his party will win the elections, polls have indicated otherwise.

Benoit Loueillet, an official in the far-right National Front party, was suspended after he was recorded saying that "there was no mass murder as has been said."

Trump calls the judge's block "unprecedented judicial overreach" and says he will take the case "as far as it needs to go," including to the US Supreme Court.

Yassin signed onto the Somalia campaign at the invitation of French Snapchat sensation Jerome Jarre, who got things started Wednesday.

The AJC letter is the latest salvo by establishment Jewish organizations to preserve the two-state solution in light of two signals that the Republican Party is backing away from the idea.

The WJC pointed out that holding the bodies of those killed in action and preventing the return of their remains for burial is a violation of the Geneva Convention.

The department's acknowledgment comes amid reports that White House officials have no intention to fill the post, despite pressure from Democrats, Republicans and Jewish community leaders.

US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason D. Greenblatt is visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories this week.