Nir Barkat claims Israel's timid response to soldier's killing and widely circulated video footage of incident harmed IDF's credibility and trust in the military; move unlikely to gain ground in Knesset as coalition expected to oppose

Ministers on Monday okayed the final outline for upcoming school year set to start Sept.1 and with much uncertainty surrounding it, Ynet has compiled a list of everything you need to know before your children go back to the classroom

Taliban fighters fire weapons into the sky across Kabul in jubilation following U.S. withdrawal; group's spokesman congratulates Afghanistan on victory, says it is 'a lesson for other invaders'

Khaled Yousef al-Jalahmah, who joins envoy from Gulf neighbor UAE one year after U.S.-brokered normalization accords, says it is a 'privilege' to fulfill King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa 'vision of peaceful coexistence'

More hawkish members of the bloc - including Austria, Denmark and Czech Republic - vehemently oppose the hosting of refugees, with some saying they are afraid situation could again result in terrorist attacks on European soil

Imports to Palestinian enclave come amid tense period, with Hamas activists launching arson balloons into Israeli terretory and daily riots on border fence; COGAT says further easing of restrictions conditional on security situation stabilizing