The three-week excavation was the first part of a national campaign to recover as many artifacts as possible left behind by Jewish rebels who hid in the desert some 2,000 years ago.

COGAT will enable Gazans to visit relatives in Israel and the West Bank. They will be authorized to pray at the Temple Mount, and attend a number of Ramadan religious events, the statement said.

Herzog said that should Netanyahu distance himself from the far-right, his party would "gather and decide," if, perhaps there is room for talks over a unity-government.

The product description of the now-disappeared Google extension said it would help users identify “who has been involved in certain political movements and media empires.”

The Bremen Peace Forum calls for a boycott of Israeli goods, and has staged protests in front of supermarkets urging customers not to buy Israeli fruit.

Even though Michaela Ivri Mendelsohn legally changed her name eight years ago, it’s only now that she feels ready to undertake her Jewish renaming ceremony.

Netanyahu’s double play in appointing an extremist defense minister may mobilize and unify the center, left, and soft-right against him.