Syrian state media said the country's air defenses had thwarted an attack last Thursday by "hostile targets" in the Kiswah area, without identifying them.

Hundreds of celebrants hailed the officers — guests of the Chabad of Roslyn — as heroes representing the triumph of the human spirit.

The 28 member states voted in favor of two resolutions, but warned that this was the last year it would do so.

Pneumonia, flu virus hits Israel hard this winter.

“We cannot endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.”

Opponents of the law charged that it was unfairly passed by presidential fiat in an unstable, "occupied" context.

"According to the statistics, there is still a long way to go in order to achieve full equality for people with disabilities within Israeli society."

Staff members at Bel Aire Elementary School, near San Francisco, discovered antisemitic graffiti spray-painted on the school’s playground in early November