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Fighters who are already part of the unit will be offered a shortened officers' course, and would be obligated to sign for extended service which is a prerequisite of their new rank.

The pyroterrorism attacks continue...

Al Jazeera claims that Yasser Arafat and Fidel Castro developed close diplomatic and personal ties, and Castro invited Arafat to Cuba "at least eight times," each time welcoming the PLO terrorist "like he was a head of state."

Some 200 families were evacuated.

On Saturday, a surprise IDF check post outside Modiin Illit seized a car with three passengers armed with two full gasoline bottles, one empty gasoline bottle, and a sack full of rags, gloves and ignition fuses.

The PA sent eight fire fighting crews over.

So far it isn't clear why no one in Avnei Hefetz was aware of the man's absence for almost a week.

The terrorist tried to stab a guard at the checkpoint.

The US Supertanker aerial firefighter arrives in Israel as the list of captured pyroterrorists grows, with fires starting to slow down.

It is possible that the Élysée Palace move is in retaliation for Netanyahu's refusal to attend a peace conference scheduled for some time in the near future in Paris.

JewishPress.com is blogging the efforts of Israel's firefighters and security personnel battling pyroterrorists.

Meanwhile, on Thursday MK Tibi intervened with police on behalf of an Arab youth who incited for #pyroterorism on his Facebook page, saying the post was 'satire.'

'Netanyahu's incitement intifada is raging across the country,' Goldblum posted. 'It's difficult not to see the connection between Netanyahu's incitements following the arsons and the submarines scandal.'

The Rabbi said, if in Beit Meir, Carmiel, or Haifa they had shot the arsonists we would have been spared this catastrophe.

The Arabs were caught on security cameras starting the fire... security then caught the #Pyroterrorists...

The IDF says it is prepared to protect all the visitors to this ancient Jewish city.

The difficulty in establishing whether a fire was set deliberately has to do with the fact that in arson cases the fire destroys most of the evidence. In Haifa, on Thursday, for instance, investigators were certain that at least some of the fires were the result of arson, but they failed to come up with conclusive evidence.

Gaza farmers are able to export their tomatoes to Israel for a better price than they would get locally.

Stoning attacks against Israeli drivers have not stopped on the roads of Judea, Samaria and around Jerusalem.

The idea of using fire to attack a targeted population did not originate with Arab terrorists from the Palestinian Authority.

JewishPress.com is blogging the efforts of Israel's firefighters and security personnel battling pyroterrorists.

Police are looking for all the pyro-terrorists.

Numerous foreign Mediterranean, European and eastern European nations sent aerial firefighters to help Israel.

The pyroterrorism burned down the yeshiva and school, but no one was injured.

Israeli security officials cautiously admit at least "some" nationwide fires caused by pyroterrorists but underline dry, windy weather conditions helped.

Four Arab suspects are arrested on allegations of deliberately setting fires in the Jerusalem Corridor.

In August 2016 two Be-200s were sent to Portugal to help in extinguishing forest fires. Four days later it was reported that the fire was prevented from spreading in the direction of two settlements and a national park.

Haifa police are now certain the fires that broke out throughout the city on Thursday morning were set by arsonists, as one of the fires appears to have been set just outside a fire station in the city – the idea being to delay the response of firefighting trucks to alarms.

The award of the mortar weapon systems solidifies Elbit Systems of America's position as the leading provider of mortar systems for the US Army.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) twitted on Wednesday: "Only someone this country doesn't belong to is capable of burning it."