Prime Minister Netanyahu, who also holds the ministerial portfolio of Foreign Minister, is appointing Dani Dayan to be Israel’s Consul General in New York City. Dayan, the former “chief international envoy” of the Yesha Council representing the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, is replacing consul general Ido Aharoni.

Dayan’s appointment comes against the backdrop of controversy in which Brazil rejected Dayan’s previous nomination as Israel’s ambassador to the South American country.

IDF forces and Border Guard police officers arrested 24 wanted Palestinian suspects overnight, throughout Judea and Samaria. Twenty-three of the 24 suspects were arrested for involvement in terrorist activities and violent disturbances.

An Israeli man was lightly injured in a stabbing attack near Hebron in Judea and Samaria on Wednesday morning, March 24. The terrorist was killed at the scene.

Jerusalem (TPS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an impromptu press conference, addressing the local and global wave of terrorist attacks, in the wake of the Brussels  and Istanbul bombings and the ongoing attacks all over Israel.

The press conference was announced a mere two hours before being held and Netanyahu allowed time for questions from the press at the end of his opening address. This is the first time since the 2015 elections that Prime Minister Netanyahu held an open press conference allowing the press to present questions which were not pre-approved.

“Terrorism is not the result of frustration and disenfranchisement, it is the result of murderous ideologies. It doesn’t stem from desperation but from hope, a hope to establish an Islamic Caliphate in Europe and a hope to establish a Palestinian state instead of Israel,” said Netanyahu.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak called on the international community to “crush ISIS on the ground in Iraq, Syria, and Libya” in an interview with Channel 2 television on Wednesday, March 23. Barak, who also served as Defense Minister from 2007-2013, described sending in ground troops “to deal with the root” of the terror group as the only way to prevent future attacks on Europe, such as Tuesday’s deadly bombings in Brussels.