Channel 13 owner Len Blavatnik, after last week refusing to extend a deal that would allow pro-government i24 News owner Patrick Drahi to acquire the news outlet, signed a deal with a group of anti-government high-tech entrepreneurs, raising hopes for a new independent and critical news channel

Iran is aiming its missiles at the sources of the Gulf's wealth and shaping regional policy. The stability of these regimes is starting to come under threat

From here on, military prison guards are allowed to rip the anus of every prisoner, as long as he is Palestinian, to break his ribs, puncture his lungs. Not only will no harm come to them, they will become heroes

As the U.S. escalates airstrikes against Iran and threatens to target Kharg Island oil infrastructure, Israel threatens to seize Lebanese territories. Despite promises that these moves would lead to a dramatic power shift, Iran and Hezbollah might still stay standing once the war is over

Maybe this is good practice for me – to experience firsthand how my son feels in normal times. I tell myself what I tell him in moments of crisis: We do our best, and together we'll try to round the sharp corners of life