The Dead Sea cosmetics firm, which has been under fire for its West Bank factory, has confirmed plans to open a plant within Israel's pre-1967 borders.
Israeli officials are trying to stop the European Union from passing an impending resolution that differentiates between Israel and its territory beyond the Green Line, its borders before the 1967 Six-Day War.
Reinhold Mitterlehner reportedly cancelled a four-day trip to Israel because an Israeli minister was due to host him at his office in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.