The Jewish presidential candidate should seize the chance to speak some inconvenient truths about Israel, to an audience that never hears them.

The free-loan funds that play a central role in supplementing the incomes of ultra-Orthodox households rely on black market capital. Draft legislation cracking down on tax evasion could spell trouble for them.

Avichai Mendelblit cites prior acquaintance with Moshe Katsav, deferring his role in forming the government's position to the state prosecutor.

Officials say all 55 passengers and six crew members perished in the crash.

The assailant was shot and killed.

Arrivals / Departures: A visitor from Argentina stuck at Ben-Gurion Airport learns to appreciate WiFi; an Israeli leaves his children behind for a job in California.

Salah Abdeslam was lightly wounded in the operation to capture him, and has been transferred from a Brussels hospital to a detention facility.

Explosion comes as Turkey is on edge following two recent suicide bomb attacks in Ankara.