Police said the attack, which took place at the end of Shmuel Hanavi Street, near the Olive Tree Hotel, was nationalistically motivated.

''Israel has the right to live in peace in its recognized borders,'' EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a joint statement.

In a country where the voters are Muslim, those with the more anti-Semitic “insights” get ahead, says deputy foreign minister.

Netanyahu would not comment extensively on the movement of some troops out of Gaza but stressed that the redeployment did not indicate an end to Operation Protective Edge and that the IDF would continue to operate “only on the basis of security considerations.”

A Belgian doctor in the city of Antwerp refused to treat a Jewish woman with a fractured rib and suggested she ‘’visit Gaza’’ to get rid of the pain, the media reported.

The Israeli embassy in Belgium said it regrets the Belgia,n government decision to advise retailers to label clearly the origin of products made in Israeli settlements.

In phone call, PM tells US secretary of state that Israel will take ''all necessary measures'' against threats; White House condemns reported attack on IDF soldiers as ''barbaric violation of cease-fire agreement.''

Sec.-Lt. Hadar Goldin named as presumably abducted officer; terrorists emerged from tunnel, suicide bomber detonated near soldiers prior to suspected kidnapping.

''Cabinet ministers must present a personal example to the entire public,'' says PM; Sa’ar recommends reading Winograd Report.

Lapid says after “quiet is restored for a long period of time,” there will be agreement along the lines of Egyptian cease-fire proposal.