A day after US President Donald Trump declared that he had taken the vexed issue of Jerusalem’s fate “off the table” for peace negotiations, Israel’s next goal is to have the US similarly make plain that it rejects demands for a so-called “right of return” of millions of Palestinians to Israel, a TV report said Friday.

US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace envoy on Sunday met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem to discuss peace talks with the Palestinians.

“The pace of settlement skyrocketed and accelerated. If you look at a map (of the West Bank), it starts becoming a Swiss cheese map, where it becomes almost impossible to create any kind of functioning Palestinian state,” Obama said, speaking earlier this week at New York’s Temple Emanu-El.

Michael Sfard talks to Haaretz about his new book, The Wall and the Gate, his optimistic outlook on ending the occupation and the disturbing trends he sees in Israeli society.

This past week, Breaking the Silence released its new booklet of testimonies, titled “Why I Broke the Silence,” in which soldiers chose to speak about the reasons for coming clean about the goings on in Israel’s backyard.

Instead of exposing the past, the government archives are busy with hiding information from the public. The reasons: fear of exposing war crimes, upsetting the ‘Arab public,’ and harming Israel’s image.

“What we desperately need now is to go back to the basics and recognize that guaranteeing Palestinians’ rights is the foundation for any political solution,” writes Haggai Matar.

This week’s launch is a welcome step toward unleashing Palestine’s mobile industry. But it also reveals a deeper problem. Israel restricts the development of vital industries in Palestine and then exploits a Palestinian market which has no other option than to purchase costly Israeli services and products.

Early Friday morning a car was burned and “Death to Arabs, price tag” was spray-painted in Hebrew on a wall in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa in southern Jerusalem.

MK Moti Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi) has called Palestinian construction in Israeli-controlled Area C of the West Bank “construction terror,” echoing settler activists who say the area must be defended against a “takeover” by Palestinians.

Floods in Wadi Fukin, a Palestinian Village near Tzur Hadassah, are worsening due to construction in the nearby expanding Jerusalem suburb.

The prosecutor’s office filed an appeal Thursday to overturn a ruling by a juvenile court in Petah Tikva which ruled not to find a resident of a West Bank outpost guilty of attacking left-wing activist Rabbi Arik Ascherman and threatening him with a knife, even though the incident was caught on video.

Jordan’s king affirmed his support Sunday for establishing a Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem, highlighting his differences with the Trump administration on a central issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Gazan employees of a UN agency that provides services to Palestinians refugees participated in a strike on Monday to protest the Trump administration’s decision to withhold a planned contribution to the organization.