Some 17 requests have been made to convert office buildings into hotels since the start of the new year, which already could represent the potential for 1,384 more hotel rooms in Tel Aviv.

"On the day that the world is commemorating international Holocaust Day, Jews are doing this to other Jews. It's awful," Tucker lamented.

Gantz will make his first political address at a rally of his Israel Resilience Party on Tuesday night at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds.

Photos from the scene showed Torah scrolls strewn across a floor full of dirt and dust and a hole cut in into the side of the ark, from which the vandals extracted the scroll.

According to Livni, in 2015, Netanyahu’s targets were “Arabs and NGOs,” and now he has added journalists and law enforcement to that list, all of which are “necessary for a democratic society.”

It was not immediately clear whether PA President Mahmoud Abbas had accepted the resignation of Hamdallah.

The Israeli team brought heat sensors with the hope of locating injured living survivors, yet there are none.

Speaking on the various challenges Israel faces today, President Reuven Rivlin said that "we must formulate a strategy and put it into action."