The Agency also took issue with IDF activity, noting that the school was an emergency shelter and should have been immune from attack.

Lapid’s years as a writer and a TV presenter have made him an excellent communicator and one of the Knesset’s best orators, traits that will serve him well as Israel’s chief diplomat.

For the first time since the pandemic began, no new local corona cases were identified in Israel on Saturday.

Nationalist groups now want to hold that march along its traditional Damascus Gate route, but police are loath to authorize it fearing that it would reignite last month's Jewish-Arab violence.

Qatar, whose monarchy was accused by Germany’s Development Minister Gerd Mueller of financing the terrorist movement the Islamic State in 2014, is slated to host the soccer World Cup in 2022.

Earlier this year the Wall Street Journal reported that Israel had carried out attacks on a dozen Iranian ships headed for Syria, apparently carrying oil.

Will Israel’s political leaders rise to the occasion? Will they acknowledge that the conflict with the Palestinians will not go away and that if they wait four more years it will only get worse?

This struggle is much more than a private dispute regarding land ownership; it is a struggle that demands equality and justice after years of suffering.