'This clock can be stopped – and we can begin to walk again, to breathe with relief, to mourn,' said Shira, the sister of Ran Gvili, the final deceased hostage to return to Israel, at Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. 'I wanted the world to stop with us if Rani wasn't coming back – and now he is here'

Adv. Ruth Dagan, a former legal adviser to the UN climate convention, is one of the few Israelis deeply familiar with the environmental framework Israel is considering leaving. She warns that such a move could severely damage the economy and Israel's international standing, putting the country on a collision course with the OECD, the EU, and Norway's sovereign wealth fund

Average hotel occupancy in Israel fell to 53 percent, down from 60 percent a year earlier, as the war kept foreign tourists away. Eilat, which relies mainly on domestic tourism, has maintained high occupancy