Dutch airline KLM again resumes flights to Israel starting Feb. 2. The airline said the flights will operate on an adjusted schedule. 

When the Syrian army attempts to move into Kurdish cities and towns, not just into oil fields and sparsely populated desert areas, it may encounter fierce and determined Kurdish resistance.

The Iranian issue is not only about nuclear capabilities or missiles, but about declarations and credibility. As long as statements by all sides are not backed by clear action, the gap will continue to widen. In the Middle East, such gaps tend to close not through diplomacy, but through crises.

President Donald Trump has left the door open to talks with Iran, but all indications suggest the sides are edging closer to confrontation. One scenario could even lead Israel to join a US strike.

Those who entered the stormy sea and were privileged to see it split marked out the historic path that continues from then until our own day. Slaves who feared their masters were required to shed the husks of mental enslavement. Their children, who crossed the sea, would become the generation that conquered Canaan in the end. And from them, to our own generations.