The Head of Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University, Prof. Eyal Ziser, told Arutz-7 that there is no need to worry about the alleged incident involving IAF planes in Syrian airspace made public Thursday. "I think the incident is dying down," he said. "There is an attempt by both sides to contain it and take care of it."

"The Syrians are keeping a low profile," he added. "They issued a non-inflammatory statement that is worded carefully and which says that nothing serious happened. Israel meanwhile is saying it doesn't know if it happened or not, and that is a good way to lower the profile."

Ziser added, however, that there is "a new reality vis-à-vis Syria following the [Second Lebanon] War; there are statements by Assad and a strengthening of the Syrian Army, so we need to be on the alert to what goes on around us."