A Tel Aviv family court has held its first hearing in a custody battle over a six-year-old boy, the sole survivor of an Italian cable car disaster, who was taken to Israel by his grandfather without permission of family in Italy.
Israel has announced nearly 11,000 new coronavirus cases in a day, a new record since the pandemic broke out - despite the country's world-leading vaccination campaign.
The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has fired barrages of rockets towards Israeli forces, drawing retaliatory fire from Israel into south Lebanon, in a third day of cross-border salvoes amid wider regional tensions with Iran.
