Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accepted an invitation to address the U.S. Congress about Iran and Islamic extremism.

Netanyahu's office said he had agreed to speak at a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives in early March following an invitation by House Speaker John Boehner.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited Wednesday to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress next month to discuss security issues including violent extremism, House Speaker John Boehner announced.

"In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life," Boehner said in a statement.

Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Wednesday of the dangerouseness of Israel's strike on Syria's Quneitra region, saying that it committed a “strategic error.”

He said: “Through this crime, Israel placed Iran on its border.”

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks with top Israeli officials in Jerusalem on Monday in a bid to deepen economic cooperation while also bringing a tough message on peace.

Abe said Tokyo would continue to have an "active engagement" in efforts to broker peace in the region as he held separate talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday hit back at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who blasted him this week for "daring" to attend an anti-terror solidarity march in Paris.

"I believe his shameful remarks must be repudiated by the international community, because the war against terror will only succeed if it's guided by moral clarity," Netanyahu's office quoted him as telling visiting leaders of the U.S. pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.

Images of Israel's premier elbowing his way to the front row of world leaders in Paris sparked both embarrassment and amusement back home -- providing rich pickings for opponents in the upcoming election.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday blasted Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu for "daring" to attend an anti-terror solidarity march in Paris, accusing him of leading "state terrorism" against the Palestinians.

The comments, at a press conference in Ankara with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas,  were the latest verbal assault against Netanyahu by Erdogan under whose rule Turkey's relations with Israel have steadily deteriorated.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited on Monday the kosher supermarket in eastern Paris where four Jews were killed by an Islamist gunman last week.

To the cries of "Bibi, Bibi" -- his nickname -- and under massive security protection, Netanyahu paid tribute to victims at the site, where Amedy Coulibaly took innocent shoppers hostage and murdered four.

France turns its attention Monday to plugging security holes blamed for failing to prevent the deadliest terrorist attack on the country in half a century, after millions united in historic rallies.

In the biggest show of solidarity, in Paris, more than a million people mourned the victims of three days of terror that began with a massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, and ended with 17 people dead.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he appreciated the "very firm position" taken by French leaders against "the new anti-Semitism and terrorism" in France.

He also thanked Lassana Bathily, the Muslim employee of a Jewish supermarket who saved several hostages during a jihadist attack on Friday.