The Week in the Middle East looks at the increasing religious influence on the IDF, follow Palestinians trying to leave the Gaza strip and examine what Barrack Obama has achieved in the Middle East.
Lebanon's Hezbollah has denied claims it was the intended recipient of a shipment of arms seized on Wednesday by naval commandos. Israeli officials say the weapons, including missiles and rockets, had been supplied by Iran.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said Jerusalem must be on the agenda for peace talks, denying Palestinian claims that Washington's policy on Israeli settlement activity has changed.
Amnesty international accuses Israel of depriving Palestine of water and mobilises net users; the web stands divided over Barack Obama’s planned education reform; and net users are invited to ask questions to Nobel Prize winners on Youtube.
Israeli police and Palestinians clashed near Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday, and several people have been detained. The mosque has been a flashpoint of tensions and Israel-Palestinian violence.
Our weekly round-up of the news from the Middle East looks at the fraught relationship between France and Iran, and features a meeting with Raed Salah, the self-proclaimed defender of Islam's third holiest site, the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
Iran will reply next week to a UN-drafted plan for it to cut a stockpile of nuclear fuel, Iranian state television quoted a senior official as saying on Friday.
