Bonfires were lit throughout the country Wednesday night in accordance to with the custom conducted in memory of Bar Yohai.

But Treasury Department says it will continue to bar Tehran from accessing America’s financial system.

There were no reports of injuries or damage in the incident.

Settlers have so much faith in Liberman and so hated Ya’alon, that they worked behind the scenes to unseat him and to replace him with the Yisrael Beytenu head.

"IAEC’s operations must be anchored in law," they say.

“I urge Hamas not to carry out these executions and I call on [PA] President [Mahmoud] Abbas to establish a moratorium on the implementation of the death penalty.”

Yisrael Beytenu MK Oded Forer declined to say whether or not his party would support the bill on conversion which UTJ lawmakers have promised to introduce in the new Knesset session.

Israel is also carefully watching the Golan Heights, which Israel acquired in 1967 and later annexed, along the border with Syria.