"The security of Israel is something that’s critical to the relations between America and Israel, and also very important to the president," says White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner in Jerusalem.

The only reason an election was held in April and the only reason we are holding another one in September is because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing criminal indictment and doesn't want to step down.

The three countries’ national security advisers will discuss regional security issues with a focus on Iran’s entrenchment in Syria. PM Netanyahu: A meeting like has never taken place before in Israel. Never.”

Thanks to ISIS policy of implementing a "scorched earth policy" in areas from which they retreat or where they are defeated, the promising rainy winter is resulting in blackened fields.

Annual survey of Arab youth finds that some two-thirds feel religion plays too large a role and 79% believe religious institutions need to be reformed and half believe religious values are holding the Arab world back.