Republicans in Congress were plunged into turmoil on Thursday when California Representative Kevin McCarthy, considered the favorite to succeed House Speaker John Boehner, surprisingly dropped out of the race, throwing the party\’s ability to govern into question.
A yeshiva student was in serious condition after a Palestinian man stabbed him in the neck in an apparent terror attack in Jerusalem.
A 19-year-old Palestinian man who stabbed five people with a screwdriver in Tel Aviv was shot dead.\n
An Israeli man was stabbed in the back and seriously wounded near the West Bank city of Hebron.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has banned government ministers and lawmakers from visiting the Temple Mount.
The European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Israel said it will commemorate victims of what the body called “acts of terror” in the past week.
Four people, including an Israeli soldier, were stabbed and wounded near a military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Thursday, police and ambulance sources said, as a rash of such Palestinian attacks spread to Israel\’s commercial capital.
Israel said on Thursday it had asked Facebook and YouTube to remove videos it says have been encouraging Palestinian violence against Israelis in the past week.
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