Prime Minister's Office informs press pool they cannot return on official flight ahead of Yom Kippur; letter claims discrimination against religious reporters

Signatories warn giving PM platform at general assembly later this month will legitimize 'cynical populist who strives to establish an autocratic regime'

Prime minister likely to spend the weekend in the US and fly back to Israel just before the start of Yom Kippur

Unclear if meeting in Washington, sought by Netanyahu, set to be offered as well -- though Yom Kippur holiday would make timing difficult

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses a lawmaker-smuggler and Armenian Jerusalemites as Diaspora affairs reporter Canaan Lidor looks at GA speeches and a Ramadan event

After 2 weeks of intense talks, negotiators hammer out conservation plan with goal of protecting 30% of world's land and sea by 2030; text to be formally adopted at later date

World court starts process toward producing advisory opinion on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, setting October deadline for countries to submit statements and responses

UN secretary-general says office will gather 'dossier' on relevant materials for the court, following General Assembly vote asking for advisory opinion on the conflict

Hague court could use 'apartheid' label and call for expanded probes, just as Israel's new hardline government pledges to press what it believes to be its rights to the West Bank

Lazar Berman on Friday's UN General Assembly vote, president's annual interfaith event; Carrie Keller-Lynn on what's precedent-setting in Israel's 37th government