US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has faced criticism for posing next to a doctored aerial image of Jerusalem showing the Third Jewish Temple where the Dome of the Rock stands today.

An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas‘ slammed U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Wednesday, calling him a “settler, terrorist” in response to the publication of a photo of Friedman receiving a doctored aerial image of Jerusalem with the Third Temple taking the place of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The court, responding to a petition filed by Human Rights Watch, said that the government was not basing its deportation order on new information, but on facts that were known to the Foreign Ministry when it granted Shakir the visa.

Unidentified vandals in the West Bank set fire to an Israeli cherry orchard and a Palestinian wheat field before dawn on Wednesday in apparent arson incidents, causing thousands of shekels in damage.

“The Jewish future demands Palestinian freedom, and the denial of this simple fact puts us all in danger.”

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz on Wednesday said that the European Union could “go to a thousand, thousand hells” for asking Israel to probe an incident last week during which an Arab human rights activist protesting against Israeli actions at the Gaza border was injured, allegedly in police custody.

Palestine has officially joined the Chemical Weapons Convention, according to a statement by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

The shared interests of defeating the Islamic State in Sinai and maintaining Egyptian stability resulted in the “secret alliance,” as The New York Times put it in February, between Egypt and Israel. But it is an alliance of convenience.