Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed hope for a renewal of the memorandum of agreement of the annual US military aid package to Israel, during his address to the 2016 AIPAC conference this morning.

“We’re now working on a new agreement to help bolster Israel’s security in the years to come,” said Netanyahu. “I hope we can conclude that agreement soon.”

The current memorandum of understanding expiring in 2017, provides Israel with approximately $3.1 billion annually, in military aid. Netanyahu’s Cabinet and the Obama Administration have yet to reach an agreement of the terms for a renewed agreement, however both sides have offered to increase the current amount of $3.1 billion.

In his address to the 2016 AIPAC conference this morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attacks in Belgium earlier this morning and expressed the need for global unity against terrorism.

“This is one continuous assault on all of us,” said Netanyahu. “In all these cases, the terrorists have no resolvable grievances.”

“The only way to defeat these terrorists is to join together and fight them together,” added Netanyahu. “That’s how we’ll fight terror, with political unity and moral clarity.”

Israel will impose a complete curfew over Judea and Samaria during the Jewish festival of Purim, the IDF spokesperson unit announced on Tuesday, March 22.

In accordance with the government’s orders and with IDF assessments, the curfew will start on Wednesday early morning, March 23, at 1 a.m., and will be lifted on Saturday evening, March 26, at 23:59.

During the curfew, entry through Israeli checkpoints will be allowed only in humanitarian, medical and exceptional cases, in accordance with the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially welcomed the 17 Yemenite Jews who were brought to Israel on Monday, March 21, in a “secret operation,” the Prime Minister’s office said.

The new arrivals brought with them an 800-year-old Torah scroll, which Prime Minister Netanyahu read from together with one of the Yemenite children. 

“Welcome to Jerusalem, to the Land of Israel,” Netanyahu told them. “I am very excited to see you here. It’s exciting that you know how to read the Torah scroll. That’s the foundation. For many years we thought about bringing you here and, with God’s help, it worked out.”

Hundreds protested on Monday, March 21, outside the meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, as the council convened to discuss alleged violations of human rights by Israel.

“That is not a council for human rights. That is a council for terrorist rights,” MK Yair Lapid blasted the organization, speaking to the crowd assembled in protest outside the U.N. headquarters in Geneva.

Lapid condemned the council for focusing disproportionately on Israel, explaining that in the past decade the Human Rights Council has passed 62 resolutions against Israel but only 55 against the rest of the world combined.

“The treatment of Israel by the council is far beyond bias,” he said. “It’s obsessive. It’s insanity. What they’re doing today is pure, old-school anti-Semitism.”