It is not clear if the fire was accidental, but tensions have loomed over the region for the last year amid reports of various attacks on vessels of Iran and Israel.

It seems like an eternity instead of only a month since Yair Lapid received the mandate from President Reuven Rivlin to form a coalition after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so.

The camp was established in the 1990s when thousands of Kurds from Turkey crossed the border in a movement Ankara says was deliberately provoked by the PKK.

Israel would not be passive simply because the majority of the world was willing to look the other way on Iran’s nuclear program.

The former prime minister in dialogue with editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz

"It's all on Ayelet Shaked now," a source at coalition talks told The Jerusalem Post. "She's the only real issue left."

Most people need a parent figure of some kind, which is why Queen Elizabeth has remained so popular in Britain. To Jewish communities abroad, the president of Israel is the closest thing to royalty.

Isaac Herzog follows in the footsteps of his father, Chaim Herzog, Israel's sixth president.