Israel Gantz, head of the Binyamin Regional Council where Givat Asaf is located, said, "Terrorism has lifted its head. We will not sit quietly.

The bill had been stymied in the past by legal experts, who said it would be disqualified by the Supreme Court.

Sergeant Yuval Mor Yosef was posthumously raised in rank to staff-sergeant. Cohen was posthumously raised in rank to sergeant.

A conference at Yad Vashem will cover a wide array of topics on the relationship to and perception of time during the Holocaust for those caught in its inferno.

Among this year’s honorees is Gerald Fischmann, a Jewish journalist who worked at Baltimore’s Capital Gazette newspaper.

According to the Shin Bet, Na’alwa had been armed when forces arrived to the scene and was planning to carry a second terror attack, “which was prevented with the thwarting of the assailant.”

"This [law] is a mistake and I do not agree with it," the newspaper quoted Portman as saying. "I hope we can love our neighbors and work together with our neighbors for change."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the IDF and the Shin bet, lauding their "impressive actions which lead to the identification and liquidation of the Barkan and Ofra terrorists."