The initiative was jump-started last week when Netanyahu agreed to bring Ben-Gvir's national guard for cabinet approval after the security minister backed his pause of a judicial overhaul proposal that had triggered nationwide street protests.
“We are exacting a high price from the regimes that support terror outside Israel’s borders,” PM Netanyahu said just hours before the incident. Officials said it was possible the provocation was part of Iran's effort to exact revenge for alleged Israeli attacks on its forces in Syria.
Israeli discourse has a tendency to flare up, with everything becoming an existential battle; the Passover Haggadah reveals to us a culture that sanctifies dispute as a way to clarify that neither side has a monopoly on the truth.
Israel’s security activity continues to operate as before to thwart terror, and an external crisis will actually unite Israeli society.
Christians celebrated Palm Sunday in Jerusalem at the start of Holy Week.
