Barkat Abu Assa was convicted of aggravated rape, child abuse and breaking into a home in central Israel's Gedera, where he attacked a woman in front of her two-year-old son. Judges described the assault as 'a prolonged and terrifying event' and ordered him to pay 200,000 shekels in compensation

The turn against Israel in U.S. public opinion, alongside a global explosion of antisemitism, requires a new strategic approach in Jerusalem

Rights groups said the execution was carried out at dawn in Alikhani Square in the central city of Isfahan, the place where the police were killed. They were among 14 people accused of killing the police, all of them sentenced to death