Thousands gathered in Mevaseret Zion for the annual Kubeh Festival, celebrating Kurdish music, dance, and cuisine while preserving a Jewish community's 2,700-year heritage from the First Temple to modern Israel.

Israel steps in to provide lifesaving treatment to Kurdish children, whose people have come under attack by Turkish thug Recep Erdogan.

Israel has imported around 75 percent of its oil in recent months from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. By doing so, it offers a vital source of funds for the Kurds in order to fight Islamic State.

Tuesday marked the three-month point since the launch of US airstrikes on Islamic State strongholds in Syria and Iraq, in which over a thousand terrorists died.