06:00:

One of the Arabs trying to set an IDF position near Kever Rochel ablaze on Monday was hit in his head with gunfire, IDF officials confirm. The terrorist was treated by an IDF physician and then transported to the trauma unit of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.

06:30:

Unseasonably hot and dry weather is expected today.

07:00:

A 5-year-old boy was very lightly injured in his head in a rock-throwing attack against his family’s vehicle near Betar Illit on Monday night. He was treated by Ichud Hatzalah and transported to a hospital.

07:10:

Ichud Hatzalah reports this morning that a second child was injured in a rock-throwing attack last night near the entrance to Betar Illit.

08:26:

MK (Bayit Yehudi) Nissim Slomiansky is accused of buying votes to get himself elected, paying a vote-getter $50,000. He denies the allegations. An investigation is underway by police into alleged illegal activity surrounding his election to the party.

10:48:

The PA’s Ma’an News Agency reports the al-Aqsa Brigade of Fatah, affiliated with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), fired the rocket into Israel this morning in response to the death of prisoner Arafat Jaradat.

12:20:

According to a Lebanon Radio report, Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah was rushed to Iran for urgent treatment of his cancer.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)