The men, aged 24 and 35, were also charged with a list of offenses ranging from illegal possession of a weapon to contact with a foreign agent.

Sa’ir will recover; its people are well-trained and strong. But it’s not hard to imagine what sort of pent-up feelings are being reinforced by the lockdown of this southern West Bank town.

The change is a clear reversal of what had been a trend of gradually easing restrictions in the past six years, a policy that had been largely aimed at the Palestinian business sector.

Ari Harow was summoned to testify in the police inquiry regarding the prime minister's affairs. Two other senior officials employed in the prime minister's office expected to be called in for questioning.

The bill is officially aimed at preventing pressure on any soldier who volunteers to serve in the IDF, but Likud MK Yoav Kish clarified that he had initiated the bill to confront the pressures brought to bear on Christian Arabs who serve.

There is a small handful of rabbis with the required expertise and experience for the job. Eyal Karim is probably the most senior of them. Which is why he was chosen.

Citing the 'apparent indifference' of Labour's leader Corbyn toward anti-Semitism among the party's ranks, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvais calls the rise in anti-Semitism a 'deep cause for concern.'

Five years on from the social protest movement of 2011, the question is whether it succeeded or failed. To answer that, we must go back to the protest’s initial goals.