According to a new report in the Israel Hayom newspaper, the Shas party will receive control over several departments within the Finance and Transportation Ministries, under the terms of its coalition agreements with the Likud party.The report adds that the departments concerned include that which controls the local authority planning councils. Shas is also expected to receive control over three separate units within the Finance Ministry related to labor agreements which will return to being within the purview of the Welfare Ministry, which will be headed by a member of the Shas party.

MK Ohad Tal of the Religious Zionist Party: Rabbi Druckman was a true public leader.

Driver and three other teens moderately injured and evacuated to hospital.

Top Hamas leader: The new Zionist government consists of the most extreme religious and nationalist right in the history of the entity.

Palestinian Arab sources reported that IDF troops had entered the eastern neighborhood of Jenin early Monday morning.

A French man suspected of killing three Kurds in a Paris shooting has confessed to a "pathological" hatred for foreigners, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said In Sunday, according to the AFP news agency.The 69-year-old man was due to appear before a judge In Monday, prosecutors said. The suspect spent nearly a day in a psychiatric facility before being returned to police custody In Sunday afternoon, the AFP report said.

To call UNIFIL a powerful peace-keeping force in Lebanon is a sad reflection of the delusion we are living under. Op-ed.

Today: Intermittent rainfall with occasional thunderstorms in most parts of the country. Flash flooding extremely likely in areas where such flooding periodically occurs.Snow is already falling in the Hermon region and will continue to do so, accompanied with fresh breezes. Rain is likely to drop off toward evening during the night, skies will remain cloudy.