U.S. hostages envoy, Adam Boehler, circumvented Israel's leadership and spoke on Israeli TV on Sunday, telling Israelis what Netanyahu tried to keep quiet – the negotiations are progressing, and more hostages will return

The failure to alert the police brass was a violation of the rules, and police sources say if they had been notified, the outcome of Hamas' attack on a string of Israeli border communities might have been different

The two homicides, one in Zemer and the other in Kafr Qara, bring the total number of murders in Israel's Arab community since the start of the new year to 48