Casting achievement as warning to Tehran, PM Netanyahu says, "All our foes should know that we can best them, both defensively and offensively." Jointly manufactured by US firm Boeing Co, Arrow-3 is billed as capable of shooting down incoming missiles in space, an altitude that would destroy any non-conventional warheads safely.
His opponents argue that even if US President Donald Trump is friendly to Jewish interests, Jewish values mandate he be opposed. Those assumptions must now be questioned.
In a dramatic breakthrough, all Israeli teenagers accused of raping a British woman in Cyprus nearly two weeks ago will be released from police custody and return home to Israel on Sunday. The woman, 19, reportedly changed her version of the event and is now being questioned by local police under caution.
Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz will soon present a proposal to the cabinet to designate the transfer of embassies to Jerusalem as a "national, diplomatic and strategic objective of the highest order." According to the plan, Israel would give countries willing to move their embassies to Jerusalem an aid package worth NIS 50 million (around $14.2 million).
Accusing Israel of engaging in "state terrorism," Turkey's President Erdogan says Ankara would not accept countries remaining silent to Israel's "crimes." Those who turn a deaf ear to Palestinians' cries "destroying their own values with their own hands," he says.
