Israel is not limiting itself to facing Iran only in Syria, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Monday.

“We are following everything happening [in Syria], and when it comes to the various threats, we are not limiting ourselves only to Syrian territory,” said Liberman, adding that Israel will maintain complete freedom to act and that it will deal with any and every Iranian threat, “no matter where it emerges.”

There will be no long-term understandings with Hamas in Gaza without the return of the remains of  Sgt. Oron Shaul and Lt. Hadar Goldin, who were killed in action in  Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the families of the missing soldiers during a meeting Sunday. Two Israeli civilians, Ethiopian-born Abera Mengistu, and Hisham al-Sayed, are also being held by Hamas since crossing the border into Gaza in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Both men suffer from mental illness.

Israel should set a target of getting 3.5 million Jews to immigrate to Israel over the next decade, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday. “The major threat to the Jewish people in the Diaspora is assimilation which has reached as high as 60 percent,” Liberman said, adding that Israel should allocate resources to prevent “the disappearance of the Jewish people in the Diaspora.” He said it would take some $365 million per year to facilitate mass aliya over a decade. “Bringing in those numbers [of Jews] will upgrade Israel to another level with a prowess we never imagined,” Liberman said. “It would give enormous impetus to the economy, to science and of course strengthen us a regional power and perhaps beyond.”

Tel Aviv University has ranked eighth in the Top-10 of Pitchbook’s venture capital database of the top 50 universities producing VC-backed entrepreneurs for the second year in a row, coming in above Ivy League schools such as Yale, Princeton and Brown.  Last year, the university came in ninth. Tel Aviv is the only non-American university in the Top-10.

The ranking is determined based on how many VC-backed companies graduates from each school have established. TAU is the highest ranked non-American university on the list, with 640 graduates having established 531 different companies, which have raised an accumulative $7.91 Billion in capital.  Stanford topped the list with 1178 graduates establishing 1015 companies, with Berkeley and MIT placing 2nd and 3rd.

Israel’s Technion ranked 14th, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem 35th.

IDF soldiers apprehended a Palestinian man who attacked Israeli citizens with stones and a piece of metal piping near Tekoa, south of Jerusalem on Sunday.

The individual reportedly attacked an Israeli with stones in the Tekoa forrest, just outside of the town. He then made his way through the forrest and over the fence into Tekoa, where he attempted to attack another person with a metal pipe he found nearby. The individual he attacked was armed, and managed to neutralize the terrorist without firing his weapon. Two neighbors witnessed the incident and assisted in subduing the attacker and apprehending him before he was handed over to security forces.

Shortly after the incident, the IDF Spokesperson said: “A short while ago, IDF fighters apprehended a Palestinian who attempted to attack a settler with a metal pipe near Tekoa,” adding that no one was injured in the incident, and that forces are scanning the area.