While the Palestinians kept their fingers crossed for their leader, President Mahmoud Abbas received a warm welcome in Jeddah for the 32nd Arab League Summit.

To be a "doresh Yerushalayim", a seeker of Jerusalem, involves attending to the capital's welfare and dreaming of full redemption. In my mind, this means, among other things, initiating a diplomatic and religious dialogue toward restoration of the Temple Mount as a place of prayer for all faiths.

"They tell you that the most important thing is that the baby comes out healthy, and that makes you think that it's okay that they gave you pills or performed a procedure on you without asking first, but it's not, it's not okay," one of the women opens up.

"Entire generations of children will be denied basic studies of mathematics, science, and languages," educators write in a letter to Education Minister Yoav Kisch.