The army's statement did not identify who fired at the soldiers, nor if any enemy forces were wounded.

In November, Israel allowed Qatar to begin a six-month cash infusion of some $90 million into Gaza.

"It felt like a bomb went off near the house," one resident said. People in Afula, Nazereth and Migdal Haemek in the North said they also heard loud explosions.

The invocation of Biblical figures feels powerful, a call out to the ancestors to protect their children’s children.

The series, which aired on NBC over four nights in April 1978, won several Emmy and Golden Globe awards and a large audience.

The company's announcement in November that it was dropping kosher certification on all their bread products created an uproar among kosher consumers.

In a way, the problem Bayit Yehudi faces reflects an ongoing trend in religious Zionism.

The Israeli Security Cabinet approved the transfer of the money two days after halting it because of violence along the Israel-Gaza border.