"If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first," Netanyahu says after Israel thwarts Iranian attack from Golan Heights. "Any nation that allows its territory to be used for attacks on Israel will be held accountable," PM says.

US President Donald Trump: "No comment" on Javad Zarif's reported arrival. Earlier, Trump said while he was happy for French President Emanuel Macron to reach out to Tehran to defuse tensions, he would carry on with his own initiatives.

The Israeli attack near Damascus was a great military and intelligence success, and it sends a message to Iran that we will always uncover its terrorist plots.

Politics editor Tom Wright-Piersanti tweets that he is "deeply sorry" for tweets in which he said things like, "Happy Jew Year" and "Who called the Jew-police?" Zionist Organization of American calls for review of every content Wright-Piersanti was involved in publishing.

The "atmosphere" that has fostered the most recent terrorist attacks has its roots in Islamic bigotry and the persistent lie that "Al-Aqsa is in danger." Israel can and must destroy these lies.