The military said it could not determine what killed Benayahu Mellet, finding that troops were deployed only after settlers entered and spent several hours in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank, and that the force was too small for the scale of the violence

At a ceremony in Tel Aviv, Israel's Filipino community celebrated dozens of its members who served in the IDF. But while those onstage wore uniforms that are a ticket into Israeli society, children in the audience looked on, their own futures still uncertain

A top adviser to the Azerbaijani president said Israel took Baku's objections 'seriously' and prevented the issue from advancing to a government vote, corroborating earlier Haaretz reporting that Netanyahu reversed the scheduled decision