The three-week excavation was the first part of a national campaign to recover as many artifacts as possible left behind by Jewish rebels who hid in the desert some 2,000 years ago.

Even though Michaela Ivri Mendelsohn legally changed her name eight years ago, it’s only now that she feels ready to undertake her Jewish renaming ceremony.

COGAT will enable Gazans to visit relatives in Israel and the West Bank. They will be authorized to pray at the Temple Mount, and attend a number of Ramadan religious events, the statement said.

According to one report, the United States was one of the nations involved in pushing compromise.

Herzog said that should Netanyahu distance himself from the far-right, his party would "gather and decide," if, perhaps there is room for talks over a unity-government.

At least five fires have erupted throughout the country to varying degrees.

The resolution also acknowledges that the German Empire, then a military ally of the Ottomans, did nothing to stop the killings.