- Metro News today has two reports today worth reading:
- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated in Jerusalem on Tuesday over military service in one of several protests following the recent detention of a rabbi’s son who refused to report to a draft office.
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he’s waiting to hear from the U.S. on the extent to which Israel is willing to curb settlement construction. Abbas spoke to reporters Tuesday, after meeting with President Donald Trump’s envoy, Jason Greenblatt, on the sidelines of an Arab summit.
- News 1130 has an AP report about how senior U.S. lawmakers (aiming to prove their commitment to Israel) are backing bipartisan legislation that would slap Iran with new sanctions while maintaining rigorous enforcement of the landmark nuclear deal.
- TheStar.com picked up a New York Times report stating that the killing of a Hamas leader could signal new conflict with IsraelHamas provided no evidence but insisted the assassination of Mazen Fuqaha bore the marks of Israel’s spy agency. Israel did not comment.
- Worth watching over at TheStar.com: Fully-automated drone has Israeli firm reaching for the sky.
- Yahoo News.ca (Reuters coverage) says that Israel’s politics are darkening: the governing coalition, in power for barely two years, is in tumult and regional tensions are rising. Read the report headlined: “Political, regional clouds gather over Israel even as economy booms”.
