Jordan's Foreign Ministry said its ambassador to Israel, Ghassan Majali, was blocked from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but Israeli officials stressed this was just a logistical misunderstanding.

If the US wants a two-state solution, it must help the Palestinians help themselves.

The reductive portrait of Israelis’ connection to the Jewish state painted by the country's opposition leader is beyond the pale. It also illustrates that members of the right were justified all along to question the depth of the Yesh Atid Party chairman’s Zionism.

Israel previously decided to withhold the funds after the United Nations passed a resolution at the behest of Ramallah requesting that the International Court of Justice weigh in on the status of Judea and Samaria.