The IDF Homefront Command will hold a training event at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva on Wednesday morning. At 10:15am emergency sirens will be sounded for 20 seconds. The sirens may be heard in neighboring communities.

19:25: Dozens of residents of Tekoa in eastern Gush Etzion blocked the road to the nearby Arab community of Tuqwa in response to a recent sharp increase of rock-throwing attacks against Jewish motorists from the village.

19:44: A firebomb was hurled at an IDF position in the el-Hader area in the Gush Etzion district. No injuries reported.

** Kiryat Malachi Councilman Rav Chaim Steiner, a Chabadnik, was appointed acting mayor as the city’s mayor was compelled to step down in light of criminal charges against him for violent assaults.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)