Analysis: Israel temporarily made it out of the FIFA affair, but Jibril Rajoub has no intention of giving up; every time Israel prevents Palestinian footballers from crossing the border, he will pick up the phone and call Switzerland.

Jerusalem sends calming messages to increasingly edgy enemies as it embarks on five-day drill, says measures are purely defensive.

ISIS? Iran? North Korea? The industry of lies spun by the BDS movement is succeeding in convincing more and more people that Israel is the source of evil in the world. Make no mistake: This is not a campaign against the settlements. It is a war on the legitimacy of the Jewish state. All reasonable forces, from right and left, must act against the economic, academic, and cultural boycott which has become a strategic threat. Yedioth Ahronoth is enlisting in the fight back.

Op-ed: Fifteen years after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, there are those who still believe that the pullout was an escape and that we should have maintained our national dignity – even at the cost of thousands of dead soldiers on the way home.