Israeli voters can seemingly contradictorily support the death penalty for terrorists and still doubt that it would deter terrorism. For years, polling in Israel has shown a broad Jewish-Israeli majority in favor of the death penalty for terrorists.

Rescuers said Wednesday that they have given up hope for the humpback whale that has become stranded repeatedly off Germany's Baltic Sea coast and now expect it to die in the inlet where it currently lies. Last week, it was rescued from even shallower water at Timmendorfer Strand, a resort town around 50 kilometers (over 30 miles) from its current location, with the help of an excavator, but it soon ran into trouble again. Burkard Baschek, the scientific director of the Ocean Museum Germany an

Emergency services and police are en route to several locations of shrapnel falls. Eight people were lightly wounded across several sites in central Israel following several fragments falling from an Iranian cluster munition on Tuesday, Magen David Adom confirmed.