Casualties and urban warfare have slowed the anti-ISIS offensive, but comparisons to US and Israeli campaigns show it’s no surprise.

Coalition chairman David Bitan (Likud) stated Saturday that he'd prefer if Arabs didn't vote, and that, "the Joint List doesn't represent Israeli-Arab interests, it represents Palestinian interests."

Mixed families and secular Jews explore the December dilemma.

Among the most horrifying aspects of the five-year-old Syrian civil war was Assad’s use of chemical weapons, including the massive August 2013 sarin gas attack that killed more than 1,400 civilians.

“His attitude, his support for Israel is clear. He feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There is no question about that,” Netanyahu said.

Berlin’s support for Israel does not come in the form of a blank check, for Merkel’s government is strongly opposed to what it terms Israel’s settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The Palestinian side hopes the Washington meetings will result in the establishment of bilateral working committees to manage relations with the US.

The battle over Amona gave way to legislation that seeks to retroactively legalize 4,000 settler homes, but for the outpost it seems to be too late.