The police and Shin Bet have arrested a third suspect as part of an investigation into the throwing of a Molotov cocktail at an Arab house in Yaffo, which caught fire and seriously wounded a 12-year-old boy.

The third suspect is a resident of the city.

Another two brothers were also arrested for the May 15 arson attack.

The incident appears to have been an attack meant for Jews.

The attack was initially blamed on Jewish terrorism.

Dr. Eilat Mazar, a pioneering archaeology professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology, passed away on Monday. She was 64.

Mazar was a third-generation Israeli archaeologist who participated in digs from a young age, as the granddaughter of Professor Benjamin Mazar who excavated the Land of Israel during the British Mandate period.

Eilat Mazar specialized in the Phoenician culture of Israel’s northern coastal plain and directed excavations in the City of David and the Temple Mount’s southern wall.

Mazar discovered the possible remnants of King David’s palace and a portion of an ancient city wall presumed to be built by King Solomon.

In 2013, Mazar unearthed a trove of gold coins and a rare Byzantine medallion with a menorah (candelabra) etched into it.

Most recently, Mazar made headlines when she unearthed clay seals “Belonging to Hezekiah, (son of) Ahaz, King of Judah” and later, seals that may have belonged to the Prophet Yeshayahu.

She also exposed dozens of coins from the last year of the Great Revolt in135 CE and found a fragment of a plaque that is the oldest written document ever discovered in Jerusalem.

David Barnea will be the next to lead Israel’s Mossad espionage agency, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday evening.

Barnea, 56, is married and the father of four.

He served in the IDF in the elite Sayeret Matkal reconnaissance unit.

He has an MA in Business Administration, with a focus in finance, from New York University. He has served as a senior business manager at an investment bank in Israel.

He was recruited to the Mossad in 1996 for an intelligence-gathering officers’ course and was posted in an operational branch. He later commanded operational units in Israel and abroad.

From 2013-2019, he commanded the Mossad’s Tzomet Branch, which received four Israel Security Prize awards during his tenure. The Tzomet Branch operates the intelligence-gathering officers and the Mossad’s network of agents around the world

From 2019 until the present, he has served as Mossad Deputy Director.

He will take up the post as Director of the Mossad and replace Yossi Cohen next week.

Speaking at an event for the PM’s Prize for Mossad Operations on Monday evening, Cohen praised Barnea and wished him great success in his post.

He added that he “is convinced that his successor will achieve great things and continue to lead the Mossad to operational successes and significant achievements.”

The Mossad’s primary focus will remain on Iran and its attempt to acquire nuclear weapons.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry reports that it has received word from the Italian authorities that 5 Israelis were killed in a cable car disaster today in the Italian Alps and a child in critical condition, who was operated on at a local hospital. Among them are a family of 2 children and an elderly couple from Italy.

Bangladesh has made a diplomatic gesture toward Israel, leading to speculation that the two countries may be on the way to the establishment of the ties.

Bangladeshi Minister of Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan announced that Bangladesh has removed from its passports the text “this passport is valid for all countries for the world except Israel.”

Gilad Cohen, Deputy Director-General for Asia and the Pacific at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the announcement as “great news! Bangladesh has removed travel ban to Israel.”

“This is a welcome step and I call on the Bangladeshi government to move forward and establish diplomatic ties with Israel so both our peoples could benefit and prosper,” he said.

Israel and Bangladesh do not have diplomatic relations. In the past, Bangladeshi citizens who visited Israel were punished and even sentenced to prison.