"The haredim sent an MK to me and told me: 'Gadi, we are done with the alliance with Netanyahu. Come and tell us what you are offering us,'" he said.

The kingdom is searching for friends beyond Washington, for allies ready to put rockets where the rhetoric is and assist in a fight Saudi Arabia considers existential.

Train service will resume once the police approve, the railway said.

"We will carry their stories with us and educate generations of commanders and soldiers by their example," he said, referring to all those who have fallen during and since the massacre.

It cited what it called "confirmed intelligence" to allege the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking, without providing more details.

At 6:29 a.m. on October 7, the time at which the Hamas attack began, the October Council has planned a minute of silence to be held.

"I feel that I’m not alone and that there's so much love in this world, and we need to keep it with both our hands," Aviva Siegel said. "I feel very, very lucky to be alive."

The accused, a mathematics lecturer in his 60s at Bar-Ilan University, was charged with preparing to commit an act of terrorism, extortion by threats, and obstruction of justice.