UN Chief Ban, in Israel on an official visit, is said to have briefed Jerusalem on report. Netanyahu has been making efforts to soften report, which is expected to be harshly critical of Israel.

Though Karl Marx may have nailed it when he said that history comes first as tragedy and then as farce.

'We think that for the sake of credibility and the country’s fortitude, this condition must be restored to the agreement,' Hadar Goldin's father says at press conference.

Living conditions should improve in the Strip and Israel gains a new channel of mediation, even if there won't be joint training of pilots or major new arms deals like in the past.

Habayit Hayehudi ministers say they will oppose the pact for its failure to guarantee the return of two soldiers' remains from Gaza and compensation paid to families of Turkish citizens killed in a 2010 maritime raid.

Elderly woman injured by rock at Western Wall in first such attack in several years on Jewish holy site, and third day of confrontations in and near the Temple Mount.

Court denies parents' request to hold funeral in Jerusalem, but divides ceremony to secular, religious stages.

The order calls for soldiers to thwart captivity even at the expense of a fellow trooper's life. Many civilian casualties were blamed on its implementation in a 2014 Gaza war.