“No one can be recognized as a friend of Israel if he is an antisemite,” Rivlin declared.

"The enemy knows that if they hit us once they will be hit 10 times more."

Targets included PM Netanyahu, Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat, Canadian security delegation.

Israel saw brisk immigration by Iranian Jews in the 1950s and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran. That provided a enormous pool of potential spies with Farsi fluency from home.

The military option against Tehran is not off the table.

“The Finnish people that lived here turned their life to be with the same as the local life of the Jewish people", said Tsuriel Bar David, manager of the Yad HaShmona hotel.

“It is inconceivable that the international community would allow Hamas not to be held accountable and pay for its criminal acts."

In July 2015, the Palestinian Dawabshe family in Duma was burned to death, including 18-month-old Ali Dawabshe, by a terrorist arson attack that included spray-painted anti-Palestinian messages.