Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells cabinet that bill, if passed, will allow monitors to use cellphone cameras to record outside the voting booths themselves.

Attack is likely retaliation for airstrikes in northeastern Syria overnight Monday that killed at least 18 Iranians and Shiite militia members, and also caused heavy damage to logistical facility and weapons warehouse. In Lebanon, Hezbollah says it downed an Israeli drone flying near the border, and that its people are in possession of the debris.

Hezbollah confirms death of Ali Hatoum and says investigation into his death is underway, but it does not appear to be security-related.

From the aliyah of Soviet Jewry to the new anti-Semitism, Alan Dershowitz’s “Defending Israel: The Story of My Relationship with My Most Challenging Client” is almost a history of Zionism.