"We need to reach an agreement regarding the safe zone as soon as possible because we have no patience left," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu says. US Embassy in Ankara: Both sides committed to accelerating progress on the Manbij roadmap.

Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz to serve as leader of new Democratic Union list, followed by Labor MK Stav Shafir. Barak opts for 10 slot, but will be the first pick of ministerial posts if the party enters the government. Meanwhile, bickering between the New Right and the United Right holds up possible "technical bloc.”

Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were dealt a setback. But their continuing popularity and the failure to pass a bill that would ban BDS discrimination shows that the fight against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is far from over.

Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan calls House resolution rejecting boycott of Israel an "important achievement" and a show of bipartisan support for Israel. BDS movement: Resolution is "based on lies."

King Abdullah II meets with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas and restates that a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital is the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.