Jewish American manager Scooter Braun tours the ravished southern towns and offers support to the families of the hostages; 'First things first, the hostages need to be released'

Prof. Eugene Koonin arrives in Israel for academic conference at University of Haifa, but doesn't miss opportunity to lend a hand in border towns; 'We won’t let terrorism stop us,' he says

Israeli rocker says war in Gaza pushed him to work on the new song after he talked to Mia Leimberg, who spent 54 days in Hamas captivity