“Today’s demonstrators are people who served in the army and who have contributed to the development of the country, and they are also labeled traitors.”

Katz still has an opportunity to get the case closed at a pre-indictment hearing before Mandelblit.

The old embassy's land is prime beachfront property on Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Street, worth considerably more than the embassy in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood.

Others have claimed that the video, provocative as it may be, doesn't do anything that wasn't done countless times before.

Prof. Eugene Kontorovich of George Mason Law School and director of the Israeli think tank Kohelet Policy Forum was a major proponent of the policy change in recent years.

Justices to rule if rotation deal is constitutional