The US military provided no details about the missing US soldier, the first abduction in America's eight-year Afghan war.

Bernd Merbitz, police president in the state of Saxonia, on Thursday will be the first recipient of a new civil courage award from Germany's Jewish community.

"The slant of their report indicates that the organization succumbed to the manipulations of the Hamas terror organization."

Avichai Ronski, the chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces, made the comments two weeks ago during a conference held for religious female soldiers, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported Thursday.

The vandals ignored personal property and furniture but charred the Jewish texts, according to reports.