While meeting with the parents of draft-dodgers who were arrested by the IDF, a senior Haredi rabbi praised the anti-draft protests and even compared the demand to join the military to the Holocaust.

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US President Donald Trump called for the death penalty for Manhattan terrorist Sayfullo Saipov, who murdered eight people and injured 12. Saipov reportedly requested to hang an ISIS banner in his hospital room and told investigators he “feels accomplished” for carrying out the terror attack.

A well-known Iranian news commentator surprised viewers by saying that Irans rhetoric against Israel should change and that Iran does not need to use slogans such as “death to Israel.”

According to a report by the intelligence-related blog Intelli Times, Wednesdays air-strike that has been ascribed to the IAF by Syrian and Lebanese media targeted an industrial area near Homs belonging to both Syria and Iran.

With World Tsunami Awareness Day coming up on Sunday, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality together with Israel Police and Israeli emergency authorities unveiled the citys first tsunami warning signs. The signs were placed after ideal evacuation routes were mapped in case of a natural disaster.

For the first time, India will be taking part in the Israeli Air Forces biennial Blue Flag exercise, a sign of warming relations between the two countries.

The Supreme Leader of Iran said in a televised speech that the Trump administration is deeply hostile towards the Iranian people.