Israel’s military has deployed a rocket defence system to the north of the country following reported Israeli airstrikes in neighbouring Syria targeting weapons believed to be destined for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants.

Anthony Spencer (Letters, Aug 15) asserts in an indignant letter that there is ‘no discrimination of Israeli Arabs’.

The first Palestinian woman to represent a Palestinian party in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, will speak at a public meeting in Cork tomorrow night.