The incidents come amid heightened tension on Israel’s northern frontier following a recent Israeli airstrike that killed a Hezbollah fighter in Syria and anticipation that the group would retaliate.
Even by the standards of Israel’s famously tumultuous politics, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unprecedented failure to form a government Wednesday, triggering a second round elections, is a seismic event. And it is not only Israeli voters who find themselves buffeted by the aftershocks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday pledged to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if he gets re-elected in the elections set to take place this week.
