IMEMC - A 14-year old boy from New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced on Wednesday to a two-week term in an Israeli prison, after having been abducted on April 5th by Israeli forces while sleeping in his family’s home in the West Bank.

Mohammed Khalek is a dual Palestinian-US citizen, having been born in New Orleans but living now in the West Bank with his family. He suffers from a heart murmur, and says that he was physically abused during interrogation. He was charged with throwing stones, and will have to pay a fine of $835, in addition to the two weeks in adult prison.

Mondoweiss - An investigation over a high-profile event at Brooklyn College on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has absolved student organizers of charges that they were anti-Semitic. The inquiry, undertaken by the City University of New York’s (CUNY) General Counsel and an outside law firm, finds that the students behind the February event did not discriminate against four Jewish students they ejected from the event, nor did they discriminate against members of the media. It was released last Friday.

NBC - Boosted by newly discovered natural resources, Israel is surging ahead economically – a success that is pushing the issue of the country's $3 billion in annual aid from the United States onto the agenda.

The country made its first intervention in the foreign currency market in almost two years Tuesday, buying $100 million to peg back the growing strength of its shekel.

A Bloomberg survey this week said the shekel was the strongest of 31 major currencies tracked over the last six months.

Haaretz - MK Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said Tuesday that the Nakba Day events held by Israeli Arabs on Independence Day was "proof" that any future agreement with Palestinians must include that sector as well.

“The hate parade of Israel-haters, the adherents and successors of the Mufti of Jerusalem, and who gathered today in Wadi Ara to mourn the establishment of the State of Israel, offers still more proof that any arrangement with the Palestinians must include Israeli Arabs as well," said Lieberman, Israel's former foreign minister.

Ma'an News - Israel is detaining at least 236 children as young as 12, among nearly 5,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails, the Palestinian Authority said ahead of Prisoners Day on Wednesday.

Israel is the only country in the world that has devised military courts for children, and it has detained over 8,000 children since 2000.