WATCH: Shir Ariely and Talia Schein cover Carly Rae Jepsen's hit song "Call Me Maybe," earning tickets to Obama's much-hyped speech Thursday.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels have captured Khan Arnabeh, which sits on the Israeli-Syrian disengagement line and straddles a main road leading into Israeli-held territory.

On the second day of his visit to the Middle East, President Barack Obama traveled to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, after a morning viewing the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum; later in the day, the U.S. president will address students at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.

Have Israeli leaders co-opted the country's beauty queen to raise the issue of Jonathan Pollard with President Obama because she is Ethiopian? Do they think Obama will reconsider Pollard just because another black person asks him to?

Sources say his friendship with the mayor of Bat Yam, who is accused of similar offenses, may constitute a conflict of interests.

Not everyone in Israel were pleased to hear about U.S. President Barack Obama's visit in Israel.

Abbas expected to assert: 'No one can gain more than the Palestinians from a resumption of negotiations and no one can lose more in their absence.'

Eyal Keren could have shined in European leagues had the government invested more in developing young players.

The American-Israeli alliance is eternal, stated Barack Obama upon his arrival - using the eternal Hebrew word, lanetzah.

Anti-psychotic drug under development proved no better than the standard schizophrenia medication.