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The Israeli authorities have started an investigation into Facebook. The Ministry of Justice wants to find out whether privacy legislation has been violated.

A Palestinian teenage girl filmed when she kicked and hit an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank gets eight months in prison. That follows from the deal she closed Wednesday with the military prosecutor, reported the news site of Haaretz in Israel. According to the deal, she would plead guilty against a reduced sentence.

Israeli forces destroyed a nuclear reactor in neighboring Syria in 2007. That made the army known Wednesday.

According to prosecutors, a driver from the French consulate in Jerusalem has smuggled numerous firearms from the Palestinian Gaza Strip to the Israeli West Bank in the last three months. 24-year-old Romain Franck from Northern France, according to Israeli media, has known and would have had money as a motive. He is reportedly on Monday for a special court in Beersheba.

An Israeli was stabbed in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday and was badly wounded. The attacker was shot dead by a security officer. The incident happened at the entrance to the Temple Mount.

Egyptian measures to disrupt the mobile phone traffic of extremists in Sinai also affect Israel and the Gaza Strip. The Israeli armed forces confirmed that problems with mobile telephony in the south of the country are caused by Egyptian electronic warfare, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reports.

US President Donald Trump may be traveling to Israel for the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. 'If possible, I'll do it', said the president during a visit by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to the White House.

The Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday for the first time in a corruption case involving the country's largest telecommunications company, Bezeq.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, where Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected, re-opens the doors Wednesday morning. That is what Haaretz magazine has announced. The leaders of the three main Christian denominations closed the sanctuary on Sunday in protest against a municipal tax plan and the planned land policy of the government. Both proposals have been put in the drawer for the time being.

The door is always open to pilgrims. But not now. The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, one of the most sacred places in Christianity, has ended the lock in protest through a series of conflicts with the Israeli government.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is closed on Sunday as a protest against new tax legislation and land policy. The Greek Orthodox patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Roman Catholic Church and the Armenian-Apostolic Church have made it known. They are the main administrators of the church.

The new US embassy in Jerusalem will open its doors in May this year. The opening coincides with the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel on May 14, the US Department of State said Friday.

Israel has thwarted an attack on a passenger aircraft in Australia last year. That is what the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a meeting in Jerusalem.

American survivors of an attack in Jerusalem have caught a bone before the American Supreme Court. The judges blocked a plan to enforce damages by confiscating Iranian cultural heritage that is being screened in Chicago.

Two Palestinian teenagers were killed at the border of the Gaza Strip when they were attacked by the Israeli army. Two other Palestinians were injured, reports the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Prime Minister Netanyahu fights for his political life since the police issued a recommendation this week to him for corruption. Still, he is still supported by a significant proportion of the population, and if elections were held today, he would take the profit again.

The Israeli police see sufficient reasons to sue Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for two cases of bribery. According to the Haaretz newspaper site, case 1000 is about the accusation that the government leader has accepted excessive gifts from wealthy benefactors in exchange for political favors.

The Syrian government has promised Israel 'more surprises' in possible future air strikes. This announcement follows the collapse of an Israeli fighter jet, which returned on Saturday after bombing targets in Syria.

The United States and Russia have responded with concern to the confrontation between Israel and Syria. Russian President Putin asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a telephone conversation to prevent escalation, reports Russian state media.

Israel has carried out attacks on Iranian targets in Syria. In addition, an F-16 fighter plane was shot from the air by the Syrian anti-aircraft, reports the Israeli army. The pilots were able to leave the plane in time and are safe. According to local media, the F-16 crashed in the north of Israel.

The controversial Belgian-Lebanese publicist Dyab Abou Jahjah is taking part in the municipal elections in Belgium with a new political party in October and the parliamentary elections a year later. The party gets the name 'be.one', as it was announced at a press conference in Brussels.

Mahmoud Abbas spies on his own rivals and allies with the help of the CIA. Thousands of Palestinians have been tapped for years by a special unit, for which there is no legal basis.

Turkish president Erdogan visits Pope Francis on Monday. The Turkish leader stepped out of a car on a deserted St. Peter's Square. Surrounding streets were closed for safety reasons.

The Israeli government legalized a forbidden settlement on the West Bank after a resident was shot there last week.

The Israeli Air Force attacked a base of Hamas after a rocket was fired from Israel in the Gaza Strip. How many victims have fallen is not known.

The US Embassy in Israel is moving to Jerusalem before the end of next year. That said the American Vice President Mike Pence, who incidentally did not mention a date for the controversial transfer of the diplomatic post.

The member states of the European Union should recognize Palestine as a state, with Jerusalem as its capital. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made this call in Brussels prior to a working lunch with the 28 EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs.

The American vice president Mike Pence will start a visit to the Middle East on Saturday. The trip had been postponed twice before, because Pence had to stay in Washington for the Senate vote on the Republicans' tax plan and because in the Middle East there was a heated reaction to Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman has reopened its doors and is fully operational again with immediate effect. Jordan says that Jerusalem has formally apologized for the shooting of two Jordanian civilians by an Israeli security official in July.

An Israeli soldier has died after being in a vegetative state for 31 years. Sergeant Avraham Ajami was seriously injured by an explosion at the age of nineteen. He died this week according to Israeli media at the age of fifty from the effects of pneumonia.