The Social Christian Unity Party presidential candidate withdrew from the race one day into the 2014 election season, describing a political campaign rife with "backstabbing."
Roma and Luda Gimelfarb have visited Costa Rica annually for the past four years to search for their son, David, who disappeared in 2009. This year, they were met with a $250,000 extortion attempt by would-be kidnappers claiming to have David.
An Iranian diplomat with Iran's U.N. delegation, Khodadad Seifi, responded swiftly, warning that "the Israeli prime minister had better not even think about attacking Iran, let alone planning for that."