Operation Breaking Dawn did little to create a shift in the political blocs ahead of the Nov. 1 elections, and the Right is expected to secure 59 Knesset seats to the Center-Left's 55.

"Iran is not at a stage to talk about finalizing the deal ... We have given our preliminary considerations to the proposals made by the EU," Iranian Foreign Ministry official tells IRNA news site.

Report by Statistics Canada shows an 47% increse in hate crimes against Jews last year. "Canadian Jews were more than 10 times more likely than any other Canadian religious minority to report being the target of a hate crime. This is alarming," Shimon Koffler Fogel, president and CEO of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs, says.

Some 250,000 tourist entries were recorded last month, up from just 49,000 a year earlier when Israel's borders were not fully open. In July 2019, a record year for tourism, the country attracted 323,000 visitors.

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