Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition survived an attempt to dissolve Knesset as ultra-Orthodox lawmakers reach a compromise with a Likud leader over military exemptions.

Thousands of activists from around the world are expected to descend on Egypt on Thursday for a “Global March to Gaza,” a movement aiming to break the Israeli blockade that has pushed the territory to the brink of famine.

The United Nations General Assembly will vote on Thursday on a draft resolution that demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the war in Gaza after the United States vetoed a similar effort in the Security Council last week.

Israeli forces conducted an operation in southern Syria to detain several members of Hamas, the military said Thursday.

AMANEY A. JAMAL is Co-Founder and Co-Principal Investigator at Arab Barometer, Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Israel is reportedly preparing to carry out a military operation in Iran as the Middle East regime has refused to comply with U.N.-backed nuclear obligations.

The author, who describes himself as a baal teshuva, makes a very strong argument in the book that eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel, is completely inseparable from the Jewish peoplehood and nationhood.

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