The latest episode of settler violence in the West Bank, where a mob assaulted soldiers for hours, reveals Israel's ethnonationalist rules of engagement: Jews are arrested unharmed for crimes that would get Palestinians killed
In his resignation letter, Cohen of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party accused the 'deep state' of blocking his plan to build a civilian airport in the Negev, which he gave as his reason for stepping down. His return to the Knesset will force out MK Tzvi Succot
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