Mueller appeared for eagerly anticipated testimony at the first of two back-to-back congressional hearings that carry high stakes for Trump and Democrats.

Politicians including Netanyahu and former defense minister Avigdor Liberman have sworn to remove them, but failed despite a High Court of Justice ruling that the homes could be removed.

Some 350 members of the House cosponsored the resolution, 175 from each party.

For British Jews, Johnson is a mixed bag.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was among the 17 members of the House of Representatives who voted against House Resolution 246 to oppose boycotts of Israel.

"The revelation of the staircase in Hazor proves once again that there is Hazor and there are all the other archeological sites," Prof. Amnon Ben-Tor exclaimed.

Three years into his sentence, Erez Akrishevsky was granted a leave from prison, in which he escaped abroad using fake documentation.

"They've been telling me what they won't do for five years, but they don't tell me what they are doing."