The North African country, with a long history of being anti-Israel, appears to believe the United States is out of excuses to block the resolution.
Local authorities say the two either died from either electrocution or asphyxiation from a gas leak.
The Palestinian Authority has circulated a draft resolution to declare the Western Wall, Rachel's Tomb and the Patriachs Cave as "Palestinian."
By Rachel Levy
A French citizen is abducted and his life is now threatened by an ISIS group in Algeria.
In Washington there are deep differences of opinion as to how to address the growing jihadi influence in Africa.
It makes a difference that we have people in government who can show why and what happened in Benghazi, in Cairo and across the region.
By Barry Rubin
An organization that can seize about 1,000 hostages in the middle of Algeria, a country whose regime has been so tough on radical Islamists, is not dead.
Unlike formulaic biographies from popular publishing houses in the Orthodox Jewish world, Beyond Politics is not predictable. The vignettes of individual men and women who trekked through Ethiopia and Sudan, flew in from Austria, India, and Algeria, or were born on Israeli soil are gritty, adventurous, and heartwarming.
