The bloggers received five-year terms each for "collusion against national security" by using their social media accounts to stir protests in Iran.
The visit followed a flare-up in violence in the occupied West Bank as Israel aims to expand discriminatory policies that are a cornerstone of the new coalition agreement.
Saudi Arabia was the sole bidder after India withdrew in December.
Inhabitants of Khan al Ahmar community face forcible expulsion after firebrand Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir orders demolition in occupied East Jerusalem area.
Blinken sees a "shrinking horizon of hope" for Palestinians as he meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah following a meeting with new Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
A bomb attack on a bus carrying Syrian police returning from a mission in Daraa province has left 15 officers injured in the war-torn country's restive south.
Blinken's long-planned visit to Israel has taken on a new urgency amid the spiralling violence.
26-year-old Nassim Naif Salman Abu Fouda is the 35th Palestinian to be killed since the start of the year amid an escalation in violence.
Unmanned combat aerial vehicles carried out an attack on a convoy of trucks carrying arms from Iraq to Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor province.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to visit Israel and the occupied West Bank, focusing on “de-escalation” after a deadly Israeli military raid in Jenin set off violent confrontations with Palestinians.
On Friday morning a man armed with a Kalashnikov rifle identified as Yasin Hosseinzadeh barged inside the embassy premises and opened fire, killing one person.
Israeli forces kill another Palestinian in Jenin while illegal settlers set fire to houses and shops in the occupied West Bank. Israeli army issues a statement about a Syrian national killed for allegedly approaching the Alpha Zone.
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