Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Tuesday that ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas have stalled, with “deep divisions” preventing progress.

Speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha, Al Thani declared that “the talks are going nowhere,” confirming that weeks of mediation efforts have failed to bridge critical gaps between the sides.

“When Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander was released, we thought that moment would open a door to end this tragedy, but the response was a more violent wave of strikes,” he said. “This irresponsible, aggressive behavior undermines any potential chance for peace.”

Qatar has been hosting negotiations based on the “Witkoff framework,” a phased plan proposing a 40- to 50-day ceasefire in exchange for the release of 10 living hostages. Under the proposal, Hamas would later disclose the status of remaining captives as talks continue toward a broader agreement to end the war.

Israel on Sunday announced that it is pursuing a broader framework for ending the war in Gaza, one that includes the release of all hostages, the expulsion of Hamas terrorists and the disarmament of the Strip.

The Israeli negotiating team in Doha is working to exhaust every opportunity to reach an agreement, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. Talks are being conducted under multiple frameworks, including one proposed by U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.

Israel reportedly considered withdrawing its delegation from Doha on Monday due to lack of progress, but opted to keep the team in place for now.

Meanwhile, Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday advanced a bill to designate Qatar as a “terror-supporting state,” clearing the way for the coalition proposal to be put to a preliminary vote in the Knesset.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague announced on Tuesday that deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang would be taking over from ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan following the accusations of sexual misconduct against him.

In a statement published by the court, the two prosecutors stressed that they would ensure their office's continuity "across all areas of work, and particularly in its mission to investigate and prosecute the most serious crimes with independence and impartiality."

The ICC's Office of the Prosecutor reaffirmed its "commitment to the continued effective implementation of its mandate to deliver justice for victims of Rome Statute crimes, across all situations and cases globally."

Karim Khan has taken indefinite leave pending the outcome of a probe by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services about allegations that he repeatedly assaulted a Malaysian colleague while urging her not to pursue charges as they might hinder his war crimes case against Israeli leaders.

"Think about the Palestinian arrest warrants," the chief prosecutor was cited as saying, according to his accuser. He has denied all allegations.

In May 2024, Khan announced that he would request arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant for "crimes against humanity" in the Gaza Strip.

The Hague-based tribunal, which independently prosecutes the gravest crimes and is not part of the United Nations, issued the arrest warrants in November.

U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based NGO that monitors anti-Israel bias at the world body and other international organizations, denounced Nazhat Shameem Khan as "unethical" in a social media post on Monday.

In her previous capacity as president of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Khan repeatedly "violated freedom of speech to appease the world's worst tyrannies," the NGO stated, accusing her of being directly responsible for shielding Hamas terrorists working for the United Nations.

U.N. Watch noted that, as ICC deputy prosecutor, Khan met in The Hague with prominent anti-Israel activists—including Navi Pillay and Miloon Kothari—whom she had previously appointed to the U.N. Human Rights Council commission of inquiry targeting Israel.

A mere 19 days after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel, Khan met in The Hague with top Palestine Liberation Organization official Riyad al-Malki to receive evidence of "Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people."

Israel has denied that the ICC has jurisdiction to arrest or try its citizens because Jerusalem is not a party to the Rome Statute, the founding document that established the ICC in 2002.

The Associated Press reported last week that the ICC probe against the Jewish state's leaders has ground to a halt in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order in February to sanction Khan and the court. Khan, who is British, has reportedly been frozen out of his U.K. bank accounts and lost all access to his work email accounts.

In a joint operation at the end of April, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the Israel Police’s Lahav 433 unit arrested two Israeli citizens on suspicion of perpetrating security-related offenses on behalf of Iranian operatives, according to a statement released by police on Tuesday.

Investigators allege that during 2025, Roi Mizrahi established contact with Iranian agents and undertook a series of sensitive tasks under their direction, some of them in coordination with the second suspect, Almog Atias. The activities focused on the town of Kfar Ahim, where Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz resides. Both suspects are 25 years old.

Both suspects were aware they were being handled by hostile foreign actors and that their actions posed a threat to national security, according to the Shin Bet. Neither is thought to have been previously involved with criminal activities; as both were deeply in debt, financial gain is believed to be the likely motivation.

Among the tasks attributed to Mizrahi was purchasing a camera that transmitted real-time video and installing it at crowded checkpoints in Haifa. He was subsequently expected to transfer control of the cameras to his operators. In one particularly alarming instance, Mizrahi was allegedly instructed to dig up a buried bag—believed to contain an explosive device—and transfer it from one location to another. Authorities say he followed the orders precisely.

The Shin Bet emphasized that the case highlights ongoing efforts by Iranian intelligence to exploit Israeli civilians via digital channels for espionage and terrorism.

The Central District Prosecutor’s Office is expected to file serious charges against both suspects in the coming days. Authorities continue to urge the public to report suspicious contacts or offers involving mysterious tasks or unexplained compensation.

This incident also marks the second time in as many days that Israel’s security service has released information about Iranian operatives targeting young Israelis to carry out espionage activities on the Islamic Republic’s behalf.

On Monday, it was reported that an 18-year-old Israeli from the central city of Yavne was arrested on suspicion of accepting Iranian orders to collect intelligence on the security detail of former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett during his recent hospital treatment.

Hungary’s parliament voted on Tuesday to initiate the country’s formal withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, a move hailed by senior Israeli officials as a stand against the court's political targeting of the Jewish state.

The bill, submitted by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, passed with 134 lawmakers in favor and 37 opposed. The legislation cited concern over the ICC being used “as instruments of political influence,” echoing longstanding Israeli objections to the court’s legitimacy.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government first announced the withdrawal plan on April 3, coinciding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s state visit to Budapest—one of only two trips Netanyahu has made abroad since the ICC issued an arrest warrant for him and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant.

Orbán has condemned the warrants and vowed Hungary would not honor it. The withdrawal would make Hungary the only European Union member state that does not recognize the ICC’s authority.

“Hungary firmly rejects the use of international organisations—in particular criminal courts—as instruments of political influence,” the bill states, according to the Hungarian parliament’s website.

Netanyahu praised the decision, calling it “bold and principled" and reiterating that Israel is being unfairly targeted over its war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza. He has denied all allegations brought by the court.

“I praise the Hungarian Parliament for its just and historic decision this morning to approve the withdrawal from the ICC,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar posted on X. “The so-called ‘International Criminal Court’ has lost all moral credibility in its zest to remove Israel’s basic right to defend itself. Thank you Hungary and @PM_ViktorOrban!”

In an earlier post, Sa’ar called the move a vital correction. “The so-called ‘International Criminal Court’ lost its moral authority after trampling the fundamental principles of international law in its zest for harming Israel’s right to self-defense,” he wrote in April.

The ICC, established over 20 years ago to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity, relies on its member states for enforcement. Israel and the United States are not parties to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the court.

In a joint press conference during his visit to Hungary, Netanyahu thanked Orbán for ensuring that the ICC warrant would have “no impact whatsoever on the Hungarian-Israeli alliance and friendship.” Orbán also promised Netanyahu safety and freedom while in the country.

Hungary’s exit from the ICC will become official one year after the United Nations Secretary-General receives formal notification.

The disclosure on Sunday of Joe Biden’s aggressive prostate cancer “with metastasis to the bone” wasn’t as surprising as it might have been under other circumstances.

The former U.S. president’s waning health and impaired cognitive abilities have been obvious for years. Ditto for the lies perpetrated by his inner circle and perpetuated by a complicit media.

The latter is documented by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios in a new book—Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again—excerpts of which indicate that the gaslighting was even more extensive than anyone with a pair of eyes already realized.

Ironically, the timing of the announcement about Biden’s diagnosis fit right in with his family’s mendacity and manipulations. Indeed, it came on the heels of the Hur-tapes release and two days before the Tapper-Thomson revelations were set to hit the stands.

But if former First Lady Jill Biden imagined that sympathy for her husband’s dire condition would upstage, if not put the kibosh on, the depth of the conspiratorial deception, she’s in for a rude awakening. Now that members of the press and previous White House staffers are rushing to shove her under the proverbial bus, she’s on her own.

Still, she might just be flattered by her depiction in Original Sin as the real power in the White House, running the show—if not, heaven forbid, the country—with an iron fist. This allegedly entailed, among other things, taking extreme measures to shield her spouse from scrutiny.

As though Americans couldn’t witness his stumbling and mumbling for themselves. Long before the disastrous June 27 debate with Donald Trump that spurred Democrat bigwigs to force him to bow out of the race and let Vice President Kamala Harris replace him as their puppet.

This wasn’t the only thing on display throughout Joe’s less-than-four-year tenure that gave new meaning to the term “cringe-worthy.” Equally apparent, to the point of horrifying, was Jill’s utter disregard for and obliviousness to Joe’s distress.

Rather than subjecting him to endless humiliation, she should have protected him from it. Of course, that would have meant forfeiting her coveted status as the grande dame of the Oval Office. One with a PhD, no less, not to mention a fawning cover story in Vogue magazine.

That lengthy feature article by Jonathan Van Meter referred to her as a “goddess in stilettos”—a “key player in her husband’s administration, a West Wing surrogate and policy advocate.”

Yes, “Dr. Jill” loves embracing her ill-gotten reputation as the embodiment of feminism and femininity, neither of which apply to her in a genuine sense. A much better description of the “educator” would be a woman who rose to fame through a man whose well-being she was willing to sacrifice when the chips were down.

So awful has she been that even Biden’s harshest critics can’t help experiencing twinges of pity for the man. After all, he’s had a long career as a senator, then as vice president under Barack Obama.

Jill’s propping him up like a ventriloquist's dummy, thus, has been particularly painful and hard to stomach. The couple’s embarrassing interview on ABC’s “The View” earlier this month, for example, caused several jaws to drop in dismay. Up until the news about Joe’s cancer, that is.

Here, again, Jill should be considered a “person of interest” where her husband’s deterioration is concerned. As famous urologist Dr. David Samadi (author of Prostate Cancer—Now What?: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery) told broadcaster Megyn Kelly on Monday, there’s something awry with the report that Biden only found out about his stage-four cancer last week.

According to Samadi, Biden would have had regular annual check-ups to detect prostate irregularities, which, when caught early, are highly treatable. In addition, he stressed, it takes at least five to seven years for prostate cancer to spread.

 In other words, either the Bidens knew about it well before Joe ran for president the first time around and refused treatment, or they maintained secrecy surrounding management of the disease. Wherever the truth lies on this specific issue, Joe’s presidency was a sham, with Jill orchestrating the scam.

She’s dubbed in Original Sin as one of the most powerful first ladies in America. May she go down in history as among the world’s worst wives.

Israel's Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday advanced a bill to designate Qatar as a "terror-supporting state," clearing the way for the coalition proposal to be put to a preliminary vote in the Knesset.

The bill, initiated by Likud lawmakers Moshe Saada and Dan Illouz, Otzma Yehudit's Yitzhak Kroizer and Michal Woldiger of the Religious Zionism Party, advances as the Israeli negotiating team continues to pursue a hostage agreement with Hamas in Doha, where senior leadership of the terrorist organization has long been hosted.

"Qatar has been the financial lifeline of Hamas for years," Illouz told JNS on Monday. "It hosted Hamas leaders in Doha, poured billions into Gaza, gave platforms to Hezbollah and looked the other way as money flowed to jihadist groups. It dressed up its terror support in diplomacy and PR."

However, "the mask is off," the Likud member continued. "Qatar is a state sponsor of terror—and no amount of gas money will buy our silence."

Illouz explained to JNS that the legislation was unlikely to affect the current hostage talks, charging that what harmed the remaining 58 captives is "that Hamas lived like kings in Qatar for over a decade."

"Qatar played both arsonist and firefighter: funding Hamas while pretending to mediate. That's not diplomacy—that’s deceit," Illouz stated, adding: "The only way to stop this game is to call them out."

"Appeasement got us nowhere. Pressure is the only language they understand," the coalition member declared. "After Oct. 7, no one can afford to keep playing dumb. Qatar isn’t a neutral broker; it's part of the problem. And Israel has a duty to say it, loud and clear."

According to Illouz, Doha "bought silence" through gas deals, think-tank donations and PR campaigns, all while backing Hamas and legitimizing Hezbollah. Even their ties with the Taliban were dressed up as diplomacy," he added.

Otzma Yehudit lawmaker Yitzhak Kroizer on Tuesday accused Qatar of actively supporting terrorism, saying the Gulf state should no longer be regarded as a legitimate mediator in regional conflicts.

“Qatar has proven over the years that it finances, supports and assists terrorist organizations—led by Hamas, which carried out one of the worst attacks in Israel’s history on Oct. 7,” Kroizer told JNS.

“It is time for the State of Israel to recognize reality: A country that supports the murder of our citizens must be legally recognized as a state that supports terrorism,” he said.

Kroizer blamed the breakdown in hostage negotiations on both Hamas and Qatar. “The responsibility for damaging the talks lies first and foremost with the side that holds the hostages and with the one who finances them—Qatar. There is no contradiction between conducting talks to return the hostages and establishing a consistent and ethical policy against supporters of terrorism,” he added.

He further criticized Qatar’s international image, accusing the country of masking its actions behind diplomacy. “Qatar has tried to buy itself a moderate image, but in its actions—through financing terrorism, incitement and strategic investments that aid Israel’s enemies—it acts exactly like a terrorist state,” he said.

“The legislation aims to correct the absurdity of Qatar being perceived as a ‘legitimate mediator’ while being part of the problem itself,” he added.

Qatar, which has hosted Hamas's leadership and has provided the organization with hundreds of millions of dollars, played a role in mediating the freedom of some hostages held by the terror group.

Doha has deflected accusations of playing a double game, saying that the United States requested that it open the mediation channel with Hamas.

In April, after two of his aides were arrested on charges of allegedly having worked to advance Qatar's interests in the Jewish state, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the Gulf nation as "a complex country, not a simple country," noting that Doha is "not an enemy country, and many praise it."

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the chances of a breakthrough in negotiations with the United States over Iran's nuclear program are slim, accusing the U.S. administration of making "nonsense statements."

“The Islamic Republic does not believe that the current negotiations with America will yield positive results, and no one knows what will follow,” he said at a ceremony commemorating former Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who both died in a helicopter crash in May, 2024, near the border with Azerbaijan.

“The Americans must stop making nonsense statements and issuing futile remarks,” said Khamenei, according to Iran’s semi-official news agency Mehr.

The Iranian leader pushed back against American demands to stop its enrichment of uranium, calling them “outrageous.”

“We are not waiting for anyone’s permission. The Islamic Republic has its own policies, its own path, and will pursue its strategies independently,” he said.

On Monday, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said that Washington will not accept enrichment of uranium in any deal with Tehran.

“We have one very, very clear red line, and that is enrichment. We cannot allow even 1% of an enrichment capability,” Witkoff said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week.”

An indispensable condition for an accord with Iran from U.S. President Donald Trump’s perspective, the envoy continued, is that it “does not include enrichment. We cannot have that. Because enrichment enables weaponization. And we will not allow a bomb to get here.”

He added that U.S.-Iran talks will resume this week in Europe, expressing optimism that they “will lead to some real positivity.”

Also on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi hosted a meeting with senior Hamas officials in Tehran, Mehr reported.

According to the Iranian outlet, the Hamas delegation included Basem Naim, a member of the terrorist organization’s “political bureau” based in Qatar, as well as Osama Hamdan, a Lebanon-based senior official.

The issues discussed during the meeting were not released to the media.

Despite being one of the worst foreign-policy decisions in the history of the United States, the “wisdom” of the 2015 nuclear deal is embraced as an article of faith by Democrats. Some see the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as genius simply because it was President Barack Obama’s idea. Others support it because they missed the day in school when their history teacher taught how the policy of appeasement led to the ravages of World War II. A third group, radical progressives, support it because they are inherently antisemitic, and they know the Iran nuclear deal undermines Israel’s security. They fundamentally believe that what’s bad for Israel is good for the world.

Once a fringe group within the Democratic Party, far-left progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are now not just the ascendant wing of the party but dominate it along with the like-minded Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). That’s because morally bankrupt leaders like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) deluded themselves into believing that they could control the upstarts by appeasing them. The progressives now have the old guard on the run.

Republicans potentially face a similar situation. Once viewed as a fringe element within Republican ranks, the far-right isolationist wing is beginning to gain traction. Party leadership has it within its power to keep the upstart isolationist fringe on the outside looking in, but it requires a conscious effort and political courage to do so. 

An overwhelming majority of Republicans oppose Obama’s abomination of an agreement. They understand that Iran is an implacable enemy of Western civilization that must be dealt with forcefully. Even so, the far-right isolationist wing in the GOP and the radical left of the Democratic Party see the “wisdom” of the Iran nuclear deal and advocate for an American retreat from the Middle East.

Both oppose attacking Iran. Neither seems to care if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon. Most critically, both are obsessed with the notion that America’s approach to Iran, which they see as unnecessarily wrongheaded and confrontational, is driven by the Jews.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is a perfect example of a far-right isolationist Republican. When recently asked her views about an American-led military strike on Iran, she posted on X, “I represent the base, and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy. I campaigned for no more wars. And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war against Iran. I don’t think we should be bombing foreign countries on behalf of other foreign countries, especially when they have their own nuclear weapons and massive military strength.”

Of course, any U.S. military strike against Iran would not be on behalf of Israel but because Washington felt it necessary to do so. Like her radical progressive kindred spirits, Greene must have missed the day in school when they taught about the post-war, American-led world order. She also must not have read the papers or watched the news, as Iran:

• Stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, and took 60 American hostages for 444 days;

• Murdered 241 U.S. service members (220 Marines, 18 U.S. Navy sailors, and 3 U.S. Army soldiers) by bombing the Marine barracks in Beirut on Oct. 23, 1983;

• Blew up the Khobar Tower housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 1996, killing 19 U.S. airmen and injuring more than 400 U.S. and international military members and civilians;

• Was responsible for one-third of the American dead and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan;

• Tried to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, 2011;

• Tried to destabilize and overthrow the Saudi royal family;

• Directly participated in more than 100 terrorist attacks against American service members (one of whom was my son) in Syria, as they defended our homeland fighting ISIS;

• Remains the leading state sponsor of global terrorism and is responsible for terror attacks around the globe;

• Funded, armed and directed the Houthis as they attacked American merchant shipping in the Red Sea;

• Joined the new axis of evil with China, Russia and North Korea, which is dedicated to upending the American-led world order; and

• Attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump.

Exactly on whose behalf would we be attacking Iran? Where precisely do Israel and the Jews fit into these acts of war against the United States and the international community? A nuclear Iran is a threat to the entire world. For Greene, though, it is the Jews, and the Jews alone, who will lead us into disaster.

What further puts the lie to Greene’s ravings, however, is that, unlike Europe, Vietnam, Korea and other countries around the world, Israel fights its own wars. Israel has never asked for American boots on the ground in any of its wars. This includes the current war against Hamas, in which Israel is fighting for its very existence.

If anything, Israel is currently fighting our war. Its battles against Iran and its proxies—Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis—are those on behalf of Western civilization. We are morally obligated to help Israel in every way possible.

On the other hand, what should we expect from Greene (who said that Jews shooted lasers from the sky to start forest fires in California), would not support the Antisemitism Awareness Act because she believes that the Jews killed Christ? She who addressed a white supremacist Nazi rally in October 2017 with well-known fascist Nick Fuentes, at which she praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler?

This is where far-right isolationist “intellectuals” like former Fox News show host Tucker Carlson come in. Well-spoken, well-educated and well-connected, Carlson attempts to give the extreme isolationist right the ideological legitimacy it requires to be taken seriously as a political movement. Unfortunately for him, his discourse is no less detached from reality and no less antisemitic than Greene’s. Look no further than his position on an American military attack against Iran.

“Whatever you think of tariffs, it’s clear that now is the worst possible time for the United States to participate in a military strike on Iran,” Carlson said. “We can’t afford it. Thousands of Americans would die. We’d lose the war that follows. Nothing would be more destructive to our country. And yet we’re closer than ever, thanks to unrelenting pressure from neocons. This is suicidal. Anyone advocating for conflict with Iran is not an ally of the United States, but an enemy.”

The term “neocons” is code for “Jews” and Israel’s supporters. Don't take my word for it. Just ask Carlson’s fellow ideological and political traveler, convicted felon Roger Stone. When asked about Carlson’s statement, Stone answered: “I could not agree more. We cannot be suckered into a war with Iran by the Israelis.”

It should come as no surprise that Carlson would peddle in some of the most rank antisemitism. This is a man who hosts Holocaust deniers on his show, heaps praise on war criminals like Putin and regularly talks of his version of revisionist history. Putting aside the age-old trope of accusing Jews of dual loyalty, his political analysis of what would happen should America attack Iran is farcical and belied by history.

The ultimate fallacy of Carlson’s argument is that an attack on Iran will start a war. Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979. The real question is: When will we fight back?

To his credit, Trump took the initial steps against Iran in his first term. This same argument of imminent armageddon was the same nonsense given to the president during his first term to try and persuade him not to eliminate Iran’s leading terrorist, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and not to institute his policy of “maximum pressure” on the regime. Rather than mount a full-scale war with America, Tehran cowered before the United States. There was no meaningful response. Trump successfully reconstituted American deterrence and made the world a safer place.

There may well be good-faith arguments as to why the United States should not attack Iran. However, “don’t give in to the Jews” is not one of them. That is true whether the argument is made by the radical progressive left of the Democratic Party or the far-right isolationists of the Republican Party. 

The major difference is that the Democratic Party has abandoned Israel, while the overwhelming majority of the Republican Party stands with the Jewish state. As Schumer has demonstrated, however, Israel’s GOP supporters should not take that for granted. We must remain vigilant.

The son of Tzeela Gez, delivered following her murder in a terrorist attack last week, was named in an unusual ceremony in the Samaria community of Bruqin on Tuesday, according to Israeli media reports.

The infant is currently unable to undergo a brit milah, the ritual circumcision ceremony during which Jewish boys are typically named, due to medical complications arising from the attack.

Family and community members gathered after morning prayers to give him the name chosen by his mother: Ravid Chaim.

The rabbi of Bruqin, Meir Hilvitz, and Shomron Regional Council head Yossi Dagan attended the ceremony. After the name was announced, participants recited Psalm 121.

The family requested continued prayers for the recovery of Ravid Chaim ben Tzeela, who they said was in need of “great mercy from Heaven.”

On Monday, the grieving family arrived at a protest mourning tent set up by the Shomron Regional Council at the site of the attack. The symbolic break from traditional mourning, usually held exclusively at home, was aimed to draw attention to what many area residents feel is a deteriorating security situation.

Hananel Gez, Tzeela's husband, issued a passionate plea to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take concrete action to prevent further attacks. “My precious Tzeela, I love you so much. It hurts that you're not here with me. We are here so your murder won’t be in vain. You rose to heaven like a righteous woman. You only did good. We want to ensure that no one ever suffers like we, the Gez and Aviav families, are suffering now.”

Tzeela Gez’s family decided to donate her organs, including her corneas. One of the recipients will be a youngster at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petach Tikvah, and the other a patient at Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital in the same city.