During a Knesset panel, Labor MK Naama Lazimi questioned the government's intention to continue funding Yair Netanyahu's extended U.S. stay 'because he assaulted the prime minister ... desecrating a symbol of state authority?' Netanyahu's Likud party: 'an absolute, repugnant lie'

During an address to graduates of an IDF officers course, Netanyahu also raised a picture of Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Kfir and Ariel and spoke about Israel's commitment to the hostages, to which someone from the crowd shouted 'so why didn't you bring them back?'

Since Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been 'in a purely reactive mode,' as one analyst puts it, while the probable successor after this Sunday's election, Friedrich Merz, 'sees the urgency' a bit better regarding Russia – as Washington brings Moscow in from the cold

The AfD is steadily gaining ground in Germany's political establishment. One of its leaders told Haaretz that concerns over the party's antisemitic undertones were mistaken, warning that Jews are threatened only by Muslim immigrants: 'We have to stop this flow into our country, specifically to protect Jews'

When Wizz Air's managing director told a UAE newspaper that 'we will be moving into Syria at some point,' Syrians anticipated an economic boost that could ease refugees' return and the reunification of families. Meanwhile, most major airlines still deem Syrian airspace too dangerous to enter

Israeli theater has been slow to respond to the atrocities of Hamas' attack and the war in Gaza. Yehoshua Sobol and Asaf Hameiri seek to change that. Plus, a war-related miniseries gets pushed back once again, and Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park gears up to look like Lollapalooza