More than 8,800 buildings, most of them houses, burned to the ground in and around Paradise, a hamlet once home to 27,000 people.

This week, as Hamas and other terrorist groups again fired hundreds of rockets at cities and towns in Israel’s south, alert apps were again pinging and buzzing their way into the Israeli psyche.

“My father warned that the [Gaza] Strip will turn into a Hamas state. The Left mocked him and called him the national fear-monger."

Separately, a kosher butcher shop in Basel serving the Jewish community there was vandalized on four occasions during October.

Germany refuses to say if Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

Retired General John Abizaid has advocated close US-Israel ties as well as been outspoken about Iran’s nuclear program and Hezbollah.

Degel has long claimed that the Lithuanian community is at least the size of the hassidim, and these elections proved to be the limit of Degel’s patience with Aguda’s attitude.

While Hamas should be punished for its attacks, more importantly it must not be allowed to dictate the tempo to Jerusalem.