Palestinian factions met in Cairo on Wednesday for two days of talks aimed at mending a rift that could threaten Egyptian-mediated negotiations to turn the Gaza ceasefire into a lasting truce.
Israel's high court on Monday outlawed a detention center where African migrants are held without trial and ordered some 2,000 inmates there released over the next three months.
The leader of Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters were now ruling the captured northeastern town of Gwoza "by Islamic law", in the first video to state a territorial claim in more than five years of violent insurrection.
In late January at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on companies and investors from all over the world to use Israel as a global research and development center, pointing the uniqueness of the country's inherent strengths within science and technology.
