Under mounting pressure, after weeks of public protests, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has finally accepted calls to delay his infamous judicial reforms plan.

A recent article on the website of Bloomberg, ‘Putin flexes his muscles in Syria in test of Israel’s new leader’, reports that ‘after years of tolerating Israeli strikes in Syria under former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Moscow is eager to do more to bolster Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with a new government in Jerusalem.’