No change to Israel policy on Sweden — official

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unaware of any changes in Jerusalem’s foreign policy to bar Swedish officials from entering the country, a senior Israeli official says, according to Haaretz.

Earlier, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely declared that officials from Stockholm were unwelcome in Israel, a day after Sweden’s foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, called for an investigation to determine whether Israel has been conducting extrajudicial executions of Palestinians during the current wave of violence.

Read the full report on Hotovely’s remarks here.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, July 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, July 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

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