US Vice President Mike Pence calls Chabad of Poway's Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein an "inspiration to the nation" and tweets that "no one should fear in a house of worship."

PM: Rafi Peretz's remarks "unacceptable to me" and do not reflect the position of my government. LGBT Task Force calls for Peretz to be fired. Peretz's predecessor at Education Ministry Bennett says remarks "do not represent the majority of the national religious public that disapproves of the obsessive war" on LGBT community.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif demands Britain release tanker seized last week off the coast of Gibraltar on suspicion of violating sanctions against Syria. UK Foreign Secretary Hunt says Tehran must supply guarantees tanker will not sail to Syria.

“I believe the administration made a mistake to move the embassy to Jerusalem,” former two-term Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak says. "That will be a major impediment, if not a permanent impediment, to try to get a two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.