Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked Kadima leader Tzipi Livni to join a national-unity government, to cooperate in handling the Iranian threat and the Palestinian refusal to negotiate, in a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
Hamas will respond by next week to Israel's latest counteroffer on swapping Palestinian prisoners for captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit,
a senior official from the terror group said Thursday.
Fifteen Israeli civilians wounded in Palestinian rocket attacks have petitioned a Belgian court to issue arrest warrants against leaders of the Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas movement.
