From the passing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's father to former Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer's exclusive interview with TheMarker, Haaretz brings you the top news from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.

Haaretz rounds up the top eight headlines you may have missed this morning.

Israel's Foreign Ministry orders envoy to Geneva to ignore all phone calls from rights council commissioner; 'The council sparked this process', says a senior Israeli official.

As the Israeli public hunkers and frets in dread and denial of what might happen if Iran were left to develop nuclear weapons - and in dread and denial of what might happen if it were prevented from doing so - the settlement movement scores triumph after triumph.

From the passing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's father to former Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer's exclusive interview with TheMarker, Haaretz brings you the top news from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.

Haaretz rounds up the top eight headlines you may have missed this morning.

Israel's Foreign Ministry orders envoy to Geneva to ignore all phone calls from rights council commissioner; 'The council sparked this process', says a senior Israeli official.

As the Israeli public hunkers and frets in dread and denial of what might happen if Iran were left to develop nuclear weapons - and in dread and denial of what might happen if it were prevented from doing so - the settlement movement scores triumph after triumph.