The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict now in its sixth year, says the pilot of the MIG Syrian warplane was killed.

Welfare and Social Services Minister Haim Katz and his polo shirt apparently crossed the line at the Knesset.

Authorities are investigating the blast as a criminal act, and did not immediately link it to any terror organization.

The police suspect party officials of falsely representing the origin of millions of shekels, obtained in Israel and abroad, used to finance party operations.

The man made references to Allah and asked at least one person if they were Muslim before he assaulted them at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud.

"We should all welcome it and express our appreciation to the United States,” PM says of $38 billion military aid package singed last week between the two nations.

Remarks come day after US designated former Hamas interior minister Fathi Hammad as an international terrorist.