<p>[twitter:2148056]</p><p>US Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff commented to the Pod Save America podcast on his wife's efforts to reach a hostage deal.</p><p>"I know she's working on this night and day, as is the President. I know there has to be a deal. There needs to be consequences for Hamas and the leaders, and there needs to be peace. And that's what they're working towards."</p>

<p>Amid tension between Israel and Egypt and Israel's demands to remain in the Philadelphi Corridor on the Egyptian border, Israel has not had an ambassador in Egypt for the past two weeks due to a delay by the Egyptian government.</p><p>The former ambassador Amira Oron finished her term and returned to Israel about two weeks ago, while the incoming ambassador, Ori Rothman, has not yet been accepted by the Egyptians.</p>

No one else does, so we must. We need to train and encourage young American Jews to turn out in really huge numbers prepared to stand their ground. Opinion.

Reports of explosions in Damascus and two other cities in Syria

IDF: Siren in Fassuta was a false identification

Jordanian Foreign Ministry: Terrorist who committed attack at Allenby Crossing is Jordanian citizen

<p>Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in the area of Ashkelon, two projectiles were identified crossing from northern Gaza into Israeli territory.</p><p>One projectile was intercepted and another fell off the coast of Ashkelon.</p><p>No injuries were reported.</p>

Preliminary investigation presented to the families of the six hostages murdered in Gaza finds they were kept in a narrow tunnel, without air, toilets or showers.