The cabinet's resolution notes there's no security impediment to residents' return, but excludes communities with a 'rehabilitative impediment' from the decision. Reconstruction in Nahal Oz, for example, is set to end by August

The 10-day sentence was an Israeli army commander's retribution for having complained about a shortage of mental health resources in the Kfir Brigade, soldiers told Haaretz. 'You have only two options: Go AWOL or commit suicide'

Despite having a Jewish wife and grandfather, a young Russian who had been in Israel on a study program was denied his request for Aliyah because his estranged father refuses to take a DNA test to prove his paternity