Group shot at while driving towards gate of neighboring settlement of Shavei Shomron; IDF searching area for culprits; incident comes amid increased tensions and uptick in lone-wolf attacks

Yehuda Dimantman, 20, is said to have been making his way from a yeshiva when him and two others came under fire while driving near outpost of Homesh; 'He was a good man, hard to believe he is gone,' says friend who was hurt in attack

Syrian military source quoted as saying attack kills one Assad soldier, causes material damage; reports circulating on social media say blasts heard near capital Damascus

A spokesman for Christian churches in the Holy Land has accused Israel of discriminating against Christian tourists during the normally busy Christmas holiday season

Suspects recruited by the terrorist group in Gaza and tasked with gathering intelligence on Israeli military assets, including locations of Iron Dome batteries, and carrying out terrorist attacks on Israeli soil

Four decades after Israel annexed the plateau, a seeming majority of its Druze residents express loyalty to the Syrian government, but northern neighbor's civil war makes some question their allegiance