(December 3, 2023 / JNS) - Israeli authorities have announced their intention to destroy the eastern Jerusalem residence of former Palestinian Authority Mufti Ekrima Sabri, after a court ruled it was built without proper permits.
The police were preparing to tear down the home of the radical Muslim cleric, located near the Beit Orot neighborhood on the Mount of Olives, The HaKol HaYehudi digital newspapers reported.

Ra’am chairman MK Mansour Abbas becomes the first Arab party leader in Israel’s history to publicly call on the armed Palestinian factions to demilitarize and work with the Palestinian Authority in order to establish a Palestinian state through non-violent means.
“In order to move forward,
the Palestinian militant groups need to throw down their arms. They need to work hand in hand with the Palestinian Authority in order to realize a national movement that will aspire for a state of Palestine in a peaceful solution alongside the state of Israel,” Abbas tells CNN in a rare interview with international media.

WASHINGTON — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has become a “liability,” contributing to reluctance from Arab leaders to fully cooperate with the Biden administration’s strategy for a post-war Gaza, two Arab diplomats told The Times of Israel this week.
The US envisions the PA eventually returning to govern the coastal enclave currently ruled by Hamas, but the Arab diplomats expressed skepticism that the 87-year-old president plagued by longstanding corruption allegations is capable of reuniting the West Bank with Gaza under the PA.

Al Jazeera has published on X footage of an emotional man holding a ‘baby’ with a blurred face wrapped in white.
However, social media users quickly shared footage of the ‘baby’ without the blurred edits shared by the News source, revealing it to be only a doll.
“He was born and martyred during the war...a month-and-a-half-old baby was martyred in the hands of his mother, after an Israeli bombing targeted the family home in the Al-Mughraqa area, south of the city,” Al Jazeera wrote alongside the doctored footage.

Tel Aviv has been ranked the eighth most expensive city to live in, moving down five notches from last year, according to a worldwide survey released on Thursday.
The Worldwide Cost of Living survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) was conducted before the outbreak of the war with the Hamas terror group, which has “affected the exchange rates in Israel and may have made it harder to procure some goods in Tel Aviv, thereby affecting prices,” it was noted in the report.