Tension is growing between Jerusalem and Brussels over the European Union’s refusal to brand Hezbollah a terrorist organisation.
 
Israel hoped that Bulgaria’s recent announcement that it believed Hezbollah was involved in the July bus bombing in Burgas could lead to the EU designating the group as such. The attack killed five Israelis.

B’nai B’rith International has condemned the EU’s position, arguing in a statement: “By tabling this decision, the EU is sending the wrong message when the evidence is quite clear, and when in fact this attack occurred on European soil…more.