Israel's leadership needs to understand the paradox: Ensuring stability and bolstering the chances for an arrangement with Hamas actually depend on undermining the existing dynamic by striking a major blow.

The defense and security establishment believes that deterrence has been restored, but not fully, and that if no political understandings are reached, it is only a matter of time until the next escalation.

High-ranking officials of Germany's Lutheran church unveil the installation to remember the malign activities of a so-called "dejudification institute" that was founded 80 years ago to eliminate all Jewish influence from Christian life in the country then run by the Nazis.

“Whether journalists believe the IDF’s statements or not, the media have a duty to report the story fully,” says Simon Plosker, managing editor for HonestReporting. “Telling one side alone is willfully naive at best, and a worrying betrayal of the truth at worst.”

$300 million allocated to grants and loans to support the Palestinian Authority's budget for the health and education sectors. The other $180 million will go to urgent rescue and humanitarian support, as well as supporting the United Nations' programs in the West Bank and Gaza.