The positive side to this story is that the country had some comic relief from the genuine clawing controversies of the day. Less amusing is arousing the wrath of the country's more extreme religious elements.

The significance of the Hezbollah tunnel is clear. It is just one element of the multidimensional, long-term Iranian strategy to threaten and eventually destroy Israel, achieving in the process Iran’s hegemonic ambitions.

Left-wing Jews continue to complain about CUFI but, at a time of rising anti-Semitism, these friends deserve thanks, not contempt rooted in prejudice.

Miss Iraq 2017, Sarah Idan, who now lives in California, could be stripped of her Iraqi citizenship after speaking out against her country's human rights abuses and in support of Israel at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last month.

Is the Kremlin controlling and "weaponizing" migration flows from Africa and the Middle East to create domestic instability in Europe?