Protocol from Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting four days after Ron Arad and Yishai Aviram were shot down shed light on defense establishment's assessment of the situation.

A man from St. Louis admitted in court that he threatened to bomb a local synagogue while people were inside, the US Department of Justice says.

Relatives of the athletes have long accused Germany of failing to secure the Olympic Village, refusing Israeli help and botching the rescue operation in which the German police officer and five of the attackers died.

The new regulations authorize the state's commissioner of education to conduct a survey and determine whether school districts in New York are meeting the requirements for teaching about the Holocaust, which has been mandatory since 1994.

Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Authority was forced to walk back condemnation of PIJ "indiscriminate" rocket attacks.