A US diplomat, a former senior US official and another source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel this week that the Biden administration has effectively shelved its effort to resurrect the de facto mission to the Palestinians shuttered by former president Donald Trump in 2019 • Full Story

Israeli Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli (Labor) is trying to thwart the construction of a new Chareidi neighborhood in Atarot and is promoting the restoration of the operation of the abandoned airport at the site instead, joining the efforts of the Biden administration to end Jewish expansion in “occupied” east Jerusalem. Atarot Airport has been abandoned since the start of the Second Intifada in 2000, due to safety concerns caused by the fact that the area is surrounded and easily accessible by Arab communities • Full Story

On Sunday afternoon, the head of the Religious Zionism Party, MK Bezalel Smotrich, responded to the rejection of the Jerusalem Sovereignty Law in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation. “The bill to preserve Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem was pushed off for four months despite the fact that the Defense establishment supports it,” Smotrich said • Full Story

In the wake of the severe incident during the riot on Shabbos, when a Border Police sniper was critically injured after Arabs stormed the fence, the IDF bolstered its forces on the border ahead of the riot, including an armored company and an additional sniper unit • Full Story

Just three months after Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired rockets at Jerusalem, spurring Operation Guardian of the Walls, the border town of Sderot appears to be on the road to recovery. The streets are bustling, and the town is filled with well-kept parks and playgrounds. The local real-estate market is booming. But underneath the veneer of normalcy, the scars of years of rocket fire run deep • Full Story

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawi-Zoabi said on Sunday that her party and the Islamist Ra’am party will prevent Prime Minister Naftali Bennett from launching a military operation. Zoabi said: “Prime Minister Naftali Bennett knows that if the government carries out out a military operation, the coalition will fall because Metetz and Ra’am won’t agree to it” • Full Story