Anonymous security officials compete with Yitzhar settlers over narrative regarding scope of internal tensions in northern West Bank, which spiked with assaults on troops

Netanyahu passes the mandate back; Blue and White chief Gantz is seen as having no better chance than he at forming a government, though he will give it a try

Late Supreme Court president Meir Shamgar is remembered for his legacies, which still stand tall today, as the ugliest fruit of his most controversial role rears its head

PM has religious slates sign pledge never to join a Joint List-supported minority government with Blue and White and left-wing parties, which they were never considering anyway

A near-fatal lightning strike brings an extremely rare issue to the fore, while more common types of storms, from Jerusalem to Syria to Moscow, brew as they all always have

Yaffa Issachar's mother tells media outlets Moscow is using Naama as 'bargaining chip' to secure release of Russian hacker jailed in Israel

Sukkot holiday edition of major dailies prominently cover the plight of an Israeli-American held hostage as a bargaining chip in a diplomatic spat between Israel, Russia and the US

Israelis spy a porthole into their future in the US's feckless Kurd policy, and in Germany a heroic door can't keep out some tough questions about security and anti-Semitism

A synagogue attack is stopped short but is no less horrifying for German Jews and a pair of deadly crashes spark questions about the biking holiday of Yom Kippur

Only Trump knows the answer, but his controversial decision to dump the Kurds in Iraq have some praying Israel won't suffer the same fate