Max Mosley says he will attend the Monaco Grand Prix - Formula One's social highlight of the season [AFP]

Mosley, who has ignored calls to resign since the scandal broke last month, had met Galeb Magadla, Israeli Sports Minister, at the Jordan Rally.
 
"During the meeting between the two in Jordan, the subject of FIA support of Israeli motor sports, which is in its first stages, was raised, and a proposal was made that the FIA will follow the development of the sport in Israel," Magadla's spokesman said in a statement.

"The minister, who was not aware of the current scandal, emphasises that the invitation was not a personal invitation to Mr. Mosley, but an invitation for the entire federation, as an international body.

"After the issue was raised with the minister, he asked to immediately halt any formal invitation to Mr. Mosley until the minister returns to Israel."

Mosley is suing the News of the World for unlimited damages but the newspaper has repeatedly said it stands by its story.

The 68-year-old, whose father Oswald was the founder of the pre-World War Two British Union of Fascists, has denied any Nazi connotations to the affair.

Israel marks the Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday next week.

Low profile

The FIA it was grateful for the original invitation and understood the circumstances in which it was withdrawn.

"I fully understand the minister's position and look forward to resuming contact with him when the News of the World's deliberate and calculated lies have been comprehensively refuted," Mosley was quoted as saying in a statement.

The FIA chief has not attended any Formula One race since the scandal broke but he denied that he was deliberately steering clear of the high profile sport and said he would be at next month's Monaco Grand Prix.

"I will be going to the Monaco Grand Prix. I live there," Mosley told the Autosport website in Jordan, whose rally clashes with this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix.

Mosley stayed away from the Bahrain Grand Prix on April 6, with that country's rulers making clear his presence would not be welcome.

While former champions, several major car manufacturers and some FIA members have called for him to resign, Mosley has refused to quit.

He faces a vote of confidence by secret ballot at an FIA general assembly in Paris on June 3, nine days after the Monaco Grand Prix.

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