Regulator hopes discounts to cash-strapped mobile phone operators battling fierce competition will entice bids. Commercial launch to start in 2020 and continue through 2023.

Fathi Hammad's speech urging Palestinians to kill Jews worldwide if Israel does not lift blockade on Gaza "does not represent movement's official position," Hamas statement reads.

Beirut-based TV channel LBC claims Israeli vessel breached Lebanese territorial waters near Rosh Hanikra in Israel's north. UN peacekeeping force says incident lasted only several minutes.

Education Minister Rafi Peretz's remarks on conversion therapy are superfluous and insensitive. No matter what public officials' intentions are, they must avoid saying things they will be forced to apologize for later.

The fifth-generation stealth fighter jets, known in Hebrew as the "Adir," land at Nevatim airbase in southern Israel on Sunday, joining the two squadrons the army declared operational in December 2017.