The two men executed, Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare, died at Arak Prison in central Iran. They had been arrested in May 2020, accused of being involved in a channel on the Telegram message app called “Critique of Superstition and Religion,” according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Both men faced months of solitary confinement and could not contact their families, the commission said.

EXCLUSIVE: The conventional wisdom among policy makers is that the thaw in relations is only in its initial state and that a full-fledged agreement on normalization will take at least several months and perhaps even a year, if it culminates in a successful outcome. 

The survey, which was conducted among a representative sample of 1,191 citizens, revealed that 70% of the Jewish public feel a historical connection to Judea and Samaria, 63% an emotional connection, and 48% a religious connection. As far as living in Judea and Samaria is concerned, 47% of the Jewish survey respondents say that they would consider moving there.

When you constantly fear triggering an escalation and refuse to act to end rounds of violence – however limited and low in casualties they may be – this inevitably leads to a bigger crisis, similar to Israel’s experience in Lebanon.

Former Public Security Minister Omer Barlev is a private citizen with the rights that entails. But he’s also the chairman of a commercial enterprise who ought to take his position into account while bashing a community of consumers.