US-brokered meeting over decades-old Mediterranean dispute a ‘positive step,’ State Department says.

Solidarity with the victims of the Mount Meron tragedy is a sign of hope. Still, the impulse to turn it into a political issue and cast blame on the ultra-Orthodox may prove more powerful.

The man, identified as Efraim Gordon, 31, was shot on the doorstep of a relative’s home.

Reeling under a staggering number of deaths, many synagogues across the country have created support groups and memorial services, hired social workers and pursued other initiatives to help congregants cope with the losses.

Time to form a government quickly running out for the embattled premier.

They included 19-year-old yeshiva students from northern New Jersey and Monsey, New York, as well as a 13-year-old boy who had moved to Israel with his family.