State Dept.: Qatar pledges not to fund Hamas The Obama administration says it has received assurances from the Arab nation Qatar that its assistance to the Palestinians will not reach Hamas.
Netanyahu fires Lapid and Livni, moving Israel closer to early elections Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a day before the dismissals that the conduct of coalition partners had made it “impossible to govern.”
Arson attack at Jerusalem’s ‘greenhouse’ of Jewish-Arab coexistence At the Max Rayne Hand In Hand Jerusalem School, the city’s only Jewish-Arab primary and high school, is struggling to cope with an attack that comes in a year that has already been tougher than usual.