Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to testify for the first time since the investigations against him were launched in 2016. What caused these trials, and what effects could they have?

<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Monday evening in his office in Jerusalem with Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Freedom Party - the largest party in the Dutch parliament and government.</p>

<p>Reports in Lebanon overnight Monday indicated that Israeli tanks are about 20 kilometers from Damascus, after the IDF took control of a row of villages near the border between Syria and Lebanon.</p>

Saudi Arabia continues recent trend of criticism of Israel, this time denouncing IDF operations at the UN-patrolled buffer zone in the Golan Heights.

<p>Palestinian Arab sources are reporting riots in Shechem (Nablus) this morning, during which local Palestinian Arabs are clashing with PA security forces.</p>

<p>The IDF has confirmed that the Israeli Navy carried out an extensive operation to destroy the Syrian naval fleet.</p><p>The attack, which was conducted using Navy missile ships, destroyed numerous Syrian Navy ships carrying sea-to-sea missiles in the Minet el-Beida area and the Latakia Port. The attack was conducted to prevent the fleet's capabilities and weapons from falling into the hands of hostile elements.</p>

Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), who has volunteered with the IDF and has spoken out firmly for Israel, was selected to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Israeli man hospitalized with compound fracture in his leg after being run over by a Palestinian-Iranian man in what police are treating as a hate crime.