The Islamic State (IS) terror militia staged a suicide car-bomb attack on a Jordanian Army border post Tuesday morning, killing and wounding several soldiers. The attack, which analysts warned represents a major escalation which will likely prompt a harsh response by Jordan, came a day after US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter warned that as IS loses battles and territory it is more likely to lash out with increasingly desperate and destructive terrorist attacks all over the world.

A spokesperson for Isaac Herzog, the leader of the Zionist Union political party and the Knesset opposition, confirmed on Monday that he had held discussions with high-ranking PA officials prior to last year’s elections in which he had promised them Israel would retreat from 100% of the West Bank and allow eastern Jerusalem to become the capital of a Palestinian State, along with other concessions, if Herzog became Prime Minister of Israel. The confirmation followed a report in Israeli media over the weekend that an agreement detailing the concessions had been drawn up between Herzog and his PA contacts, but not finalized.

The Western-backed Palestinian Authority released a statement this week accusing Israel of tolerating a certain Rabbi Shlomo Mlmad, spokesman for an organization called the Council of Rabbis in West Bank, who it said is calling on Israeli Jews to poison wells in Palestinian villages. The Jerusalem Postnewspaper said it was unable to find any evidence that a Rabbi Shlomo Mlmad or a “Council of Rabbis in the West Bank” even exists. In related news, Twitter has suspended the account of Hamas’s military wing, the Izzadin Kassam Brigades, after several reports about it appeared in Israeli media outlets.

US Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced Monday that Israel and the US will soon initiate a new program to share cyber data, massively enhancing the ability of both governments to defend against cyber-attacks. Meanwhile, officials in both countries report that an agreement on a new 10-year package of defense aid for Israel is “very close” to being signed.

A group of Palestinians throwing rocks and gasoline bombs at Israeli motorists on Route 443, north of Jerusalem, was fired on Monday afternoon by IDF troops, resulting in the death of one Palestinian bystander and the wounding of two others in what the IDF later admitted was a mistake. Three Israelis were also wounded in the incident.

Israel’s religiously observant Jewish community was rocked by scandals on Monday, including the nearly unprecedented publishing of a letter by several prominent Rabbis and organizations in the US and Jerusalem warning women to avoid contact with Rabbi Meir Pogrow, a heretofore highly respected Torah scholar who has been accused of sexually abusing several women, many of whom were students of his. Elsewhere, Rabbi Yosef Hadane, chief rabbi of the Ethiopian- Israeli community, was removed from his position by the Religious Services Ministry under unclear circumstances, with supporters claiming he is being pushed out for opposing discrimination against members of his community.