Health minister cautions over 'dramatic' rise in new cases ■ Knesset shuttered after lawmaker tests positive ■ Some schools shut over outbreak fears to reopen next week

Doctors within the ear-nose-and throat department at Rambam hospital speak up about a lucrative procedure they say is being done unnecessarily and in a slipshod manner, and about department heads whom they say insist indiscriminately on operating

For Netanyahu, the move mixes ideology and personal survival ■ Why is the Israeli army chief warning of 'a grave mistake' that would carry a 'heavy price'?

Yousef al Otaiba made the unusual step of publishing an op-ed in Hebrew in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, in a bid to 'speak directly to an audience'

Meanwhile, Washington is pushing to extend an arms embargo on Iran that is due to expire in October under the nuclear deal

The memorial on Rothschild Boulevard also included a sign with quotes from Eyad Hallaq's counselor at his special needs center, who witnessed the shooting