ירושלים, ישׂראל – 2 דעצעמבער, 2016

Jerusalem, Israel – 2 December, 2016

פֿון אָדם גרוזמאַן

Published December 02, 2016, issue of December 28, 2016.
Dozens of fires destroy hundreds of buildings across Israel as firefighters find signs of arson; more than a dozen countries and the Palestinian Authority send forces and airplanes to help extinguish the flames; Israelis open their homes to people who lost their houses to fires; 30 Israeli-Arabs are arrested on suspicion of setting the fires; a political scandal regarding the purchase of German submarines has ensnared Netanyahu’s personal lawyer; the IDF and ISIS exchanged fire for the first time; Israel bombs a Hezbollah convoy and a Syrian weapons depot; Abbas is reelected as the Palestinian President, and the Israeli Supreme Court approves a new IDF Chief Rabbi despite controversial comments he had made ten years ago.

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