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U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to directly give heavy weapons to the People's Protection Units (YPG) was not a snap decision. There are deep alliances and rooted interests behind it. It looks quite unlikely that this decision will change if Turkey simply warns against it. 

Turkey and Israel have been in talks about the commercial details of building a pipeline to carry Israeli gas to Europe via Turkey, a top Israeli official has said, adding that he is optimistic about the process in which a final agreement may be reached soon. 

U.S. President Donald Trump invited Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to the White House to discuss resuming peace talks in their first contact since Trump took office in January.

Abbas' spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh said that Abbas would travel "very soon."

A group of Turkish doctors is set to establish a live donor transplant unit at a well-known Israeli hospital in Jerusalem, according to an Israeli doctor. 

The Israeli government voted on March 5  in favour of decriminalizing recreational marijuana use, joining some U.S. states and European countries who have adopted a similar approach.

Israel's domestic security service said on Feb. 15 it had barred the country's Ironi Nahariya basketball team from playing a Europe Cup match in Turkey, due to "exceptional" safety concerns.

Nahariya had been scheduled to play Gaziantep away in a round of 16 second leg game on Feb. 22, after beating the Turkish side 96-75 in Israel.

Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı's visit to Tel Aviv set another milestone in the reconciliation process between Turkey and Israel, as it marked the first ministerial visit from the former to the latter since 2010.  

Turkey condemned the Israeli government's approval of the construction of 3,000 additional units in settlements on occupied Palestinian territories late on Feb. 1, as Turkish Foreign Undersecretary Ümit Yalçın and his Israeli counterpart Yuval Rotem met in Ankara for their two countries' first political consultations session since 2010 Mavi Marmara crisis.

Israel is boosting spending on its navy to better protect offshore oil and gas deposits and secure a large maritime zone that abuts that of Lebanon.

Investors say the steps are reassuring.

The United Kingdom scolded U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for describing the Israeli government as the "most right-wing in Israeli history," a move that aligns British Prime Minister Theresa May more closely with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.