PA president’s spokesman says New York visit is ‘a crossroads’; Abbas to present initiative to Kerry Wednesday

Male victim in his 30s stabbed in neck; suspect, a 20-year-old man, apprehended at the scene

During the Six Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. Fast forward 40 years and Israel has become perhaps the most reviled country in the world. What caused this remarkable turnabout? Making David into Goliath traces the process by which material pressures and intellectual fashions reshaped world opinion of Israel.

Defense panel head Ze’ev Elkin says Israel should hold bodies of Marwan Kawasme and Amer Abu Aysha until Hamas gives back remains of troops killed in Gaza

The controversial Infiltrator Law is struck down, which strikes a chord with all the papers

Face-to-face talks will be first confab between any Iranian, British leaders since 1979

The Counter Extremism Project seeks to refute social media messaging, compile world’s biggest database of extremist networks

Netanyahu says ‘unprecedented’ economic development plan will strengthen outlying communities, deepen hold on Gaza border area