Yair Lapid, the caretaker Israeli prime minister, needs to score a win if he is to remain in the post after the November elections. Lapid, who represents the center left, has a certain vision of a two-state solution and might push for it if he retains power.

In devastating testimony to a US Congressional hearing this month, a Syrian man known only as “the gravedigger” described the atrocities he witnessed when he was forced to work at a mass grave in Syria from 2011 to 2018.