"It would be far-reaching judicial activism to establish that the president cannot give the mandate to form a government to someone who the citizens of the country vote for, assuming that they vote in high numbers of Netanyahu,” says vice president of the Israel Democracy Institute.

The terrorist group says the attack was carried out by one of its Britain-based operatives as part of the plan to target countries that have been part of a coalition fighting it.

Egyptian-born Hussein Aboubakr was 14 when he discovered much of what he was told about Israel was a lie and the revelation sent him down a harrowing path, from which he emerged as a pro-Israel advocate in the United States. "I dream of making the Arabs understand what Israel really stands for," he says.

There’s a straight line connecting leftists’ rejection of the settlements’ legality with the rightists’ rejection of the indictments against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Protesters rallied outside auditorium in central Israel carry signs accusing the Joint Arab List lawmaker of being a "terrorist," "murderer." Police detain two protesters for questioning for allegedly trying to attack Tibi as he entered the premises.