The US Secretary of Defense announced during a Friday congressional session that the request for military assistance has been approved and the US will transfer the requested amount over to Israel.

The Cabinet, comprised of ministers from eight very different parties, is no one’s dream team, and the Likud itself is not united.

If politics makes strange bedfellows, the litany of former allies determined to eject the Netanyahus from their Balfour Street bedroom of 12 years is extraordinary.

If a transition happens, it needs to happen only after the old prime minister has left and the new prime minister has come in.

The outgoing prime minister had a grand strategy for Israel and successfully implemented it, turning Israel into a regional powerhouse.

SlutWalk, populated by a few hundred women, marched through central Jerusalem on Friday midday, marking the state of abandonment women who have experienced abuse feel in Israel.

Three injuries have so far been reported, and in one video a man could be seen being carried off by Red Crescent volunteers.

The ideal solution would be a secular democratic state of Jews and Palestinians with equal rights. But that is not on the table.