Civil Administration agents during the morning hours destroyed an illegal home in the Bedouin community of Um el-Hir in the S. Hebron Hills region near Yishuv Carmel.

** President Shimon Peres left for Switzerland where he will be taking part in the Davos Economic Conference.

** Employment services workers have ended their strike and returned to regular operations.

** Hackers have downed the website of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, the largest hospital in the country. The website is only one that provides information and in no way impacts the operation of the medical facility. Appears the site went down at about 2:00am.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)