Official media in Turkey has indicated that Turkish security personnel have thwarted the abduction of a former Israeli ambassador and his wife, as well as several Israeli tourists, by an Iranian terror cell.The Mossad has reportedly evacuated the targets of the kidnapping plot back to Israel.

An explosion was heard In Wednesday night in the city of Daraa, located about 100 km south of Damascus in Syria, state media reported.According to Ine report, the explosion occurred inside a vehicle.

An unconscious man was discovered near a beach in Eilat In Wednesday evening.Magen David Adom paramedics who were called to the scene pronounced him dead. Police are investigating the incident and suspect it was a murder.

Former MK Yomtob Kalfon hopes to find himself In the Yamina list for the next Knesset.

A senior US official hinted In Wednesday that more Arab nations are looking to make gestures to improve relations with Israel when President Joe Biden visits the region next month, AFP reported.Barbara Leaf, the top US diplomat for the Middle East, said that the Biden administration was encouraging greater cooperation between Israel and the Arab nations with which it has relations.

There is nothing to be gained by elections. It is the duty of the leadership to implement the people's desire for a right wing gov't. Op-ed.

Israeli health officials reported that the number of critically ill COVID-19 patients in the country has risen to 212. 41 of these are In life support.

Chairman of Ra'am (United Arab List), Mansour Abbas, told Radio 103 that his party did, indeed, hold coalition negotiations with the Likud and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu."I would definitely take a polygraph," said Abbas. "In my first term [as party head] we negotiated with the Likud, in my third, we assisted the Gantz-Netanyahu government, and half an hour before I signed the coalition agreement with Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett, I was talking In the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu."