Top stories this week:

-Minister Itamar Ben Gvir wants to surround a prison with crocodiles. 

-In words that seem to be straight from the headlines, a 1,500-year-old Midrash predicts that in the year the Messiah is revealed, the king of Persia will provoke the king of Arabia. The king of Arabia will go west for council. Then Persia comes back and shakes the world.

-Roughly 49,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into a Spanish city on the northern African coast and Spain responded by…blaming Israel.

And much more.