Noel Biderman is the Canadian founder of Ashley Madison, a controversial but globally popular adultery website that connects married men and women and discretely enables them to have affairs. Famed for its catchy motto – “Life is short. Have an affair” – the dating service is free for women but paying for men. Its array of features include virtual “winks”, instant messaging and “travelling” services for members seeking an affair during business trips.

Its mobile app uses GPS technology to track down the nearest available potential lover. The website is currently in the throes of a rapid global expansion: since launching in Canada on Valentine’s Day in 2002, it has attracted more than 24 million members in 37 countries, with South Korea launched last week.

Mr Biderman, 42, is a man clearly used to defending his business. In an interview with The Telegraph last week during a visit to Japan – the fastest growing country in terms of membership – he reeled out a string of polished reasons as to why infidelity is the way of the modern world. “Infidelity exists in every culture in the world,” said Mr Biderman, who refers to himself as the “Emperor of Infidelity”. "There’s no place you can point to on the planet where there is no unfaithfulness."

Needless to say, the company is rarely far from controversy. Mr Biderman has incurred the wrath of the Pope, with the Vatican sending a disapproving letter to Ashley Madison in opposition to its sponsorship of Rome’s basketball club Virtue Roma. More recently, Singapore’s government banned the site, following a public outcry against its "flagrant disregard" for public morality.

"It is inconceivable that we should agree to the very thing that is most likely to hurt our people the most," he added. Rabbi Druckman also noted that despite the 'gestures' Israel made by releasing terrorists during the negotiating process, the Palestinian Authority (PA) violated the basic agreements behind the peace process by applying for legitimacy at 15 international conventions.

The rabbi also cited the appropriateness of the party - and of Israel - standing up for its basic principles in light of the upcoming Passover holiday. "We are on the eve of the holiday of freedom, and certainly others will not determine for us whether we can build in our country in general, and particularly in Jerusalem, our capital," Rabbi Druckman fired. "I hope Jewish Home stands firm and unambiguous on this issue. This issue, more than any others, is morally and ethically unparalleled in importance."

"We'll be celebrating it on Temple Mount," said the group Hozrim El Ha-Har ('We will Return to the Mount' in Hebrew) on Thursday. The group has told its followers to gather on Monday at the external walls of the Temple in "conditions of purity", ie to have already carried out their ablutions. In one area of Jerusalem a lamb was 'sacrificed' by the activists on Thursday using a method described in Biblical texts.

The initiative is likely to aggravate existing tensions in East Jerusalem between Arabs and Jews, said Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour in a letter to the UN secretary general, the head of the Security Council and that of the General Assembly. Mansour was quoted by Palestinian media as saying that "Israeli government representatives and right-wing groups linked to the settlers' movement are trying to create inter-religious tension in order to destabilize the situation" concerning the dispute over the holy sites, especially Temple Mount.

Mansour added that "the constant incursions of extremists into the area around the Al-Aqsa mosque and the restrictions imposed on Palestinian worshipers may aggravate the political climate", and called for firm intervention by the international community and the UN Security Council.

Associations of these organizations will hold training and explanation sessions in western occupied Jerusalem about "Temple Mount Oblations" in al-Aqsa mosque yards, according to Al Ray. The sessions will be followed by other activities starting from next Monday on the anniversary of Jewish "Passover", Al-Aqsa foundation said in a press release.

The associations invited Jewish families and their children for group break-ins of al-Aqsa mosque on the 14th, 16th and 17th of this month to perform Talmudic rituals, the foundation added. It assured, via social networks, that the break-ins will be protected by Israeli forces. The foundation considered such activities as attempts by the Israeli occupation to impose a fait accompli in al-Aqsa mosque.

Israeli settlers and politicians have lately been violating the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, almost on a daily basis, and always under the protection of armed occupation forces, which often attack Palestinian worshipers who try to protect their holy site.

“The emerging deal, if it includes the release of murderers with Israeli citizenship, harms Israeli sovereignty, and not only that - it is being done when the Palestinians have not cancelled their requests to join international organizations,” he added. "Therefore, if a proposal for release of Israeli murderers comes before the Cabinet, the Jewish Home will oppose it,” Bennett declared. “If the proposal will pass - the Jewish Home will resign from the government, which frees murderers with Israeli citizenship. Enough is enough.”

“On this evening of Passover, it is important to remember that we went from slavery to freedom so we that we can have an Israeli legal system which will protect the citizens of Israel - not a system that is being blackmailed by a gang of terrorists and which releases murderers,” said Bennett. “This is an act of extortion and surrender to terrorism which we cannot accept.”

Dismissing suggestions that Israel was responsible for the collapse of peace talks by building homes in Jerusalem, Bennett pointed out that the talks had already ground to a halt after PA leader Mahmoud Abbas refused to even recognize Israel's existence as the nation-state of the Jewish people, while simultaneously demanding Israeli recognition of a ‘Palestinian homeland.’ "The reality… is that the era of these negotiations is over - it's time for plan B… a new approach," he said. "The approach that we've been applying for 20 years now clearly has reached its end."

Responding to his interviewer's claim that "there has been Palestinian life in Jerusalem for thousands of years," he retorted: "You're talking about a Palestinian presence? Has there ever been a Palestinian state? Show me what its flag was, show me what its anthem was, show me who its leader is - show me anything that mentions the word 'Palestinians' more than 65 or 80 years ago.

"There has never been 'Palestinian state' - that's one of the big lies that they've managed to press forward. The reality is that it's been the Jewish land for 3,000 years, it's still our land."

The traditional defense is to kill these flying vectors with chemical insecticides. But that hasn’t worked in Brazil or other tropical countries where dengue is a leading cause of illness and fatality. Last year, Brazil reported 1.4 million cases of dengue, which is endemic in three of the 12 host cities for this summer’s World Cup. There is no vaccine. The most severe form of the illness, dengue hemorrhagic fever, can lead to shock, coma and death.

That’s where the “Franken-skeeter” comes in. The insects are genetically modified (GM) in a laboratory with a lethal gene designed to devastate the Aedes aegypti population and reduce dengue's spread. “We need to provide alternatives because the system we have now in Brazil doesn’t work,” said Aldo Malavasi, president of Moscamed, a Brazilian company that’s raising and testing the GM mosquitoes in Jacobina, located in eastern Bahia state. “We have thousands and thousands of cases of dengue and that costs a lot for the country. People are unable to work.”

But like with genetically modified foods, manipulating the genes of blood-sucking insects and then setting them free is raising concerns about potential impact on human health and the environment. Critics contend that more laboratory studies must be carried out before releasing highly mobile GM insects into the environment. “They are even harder to recall than plants are if anything goes wrong,” says Helen Wallace, director of the British environmental group GeneWatch.