(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel / 10:55PM IL)

SECURITY/DEFENSE:

*A Tanzim terrorist was apprehended by IDF soldiers in Ramallah on Thursday. He is suspected of arms dealing.

*At least one Kassam rocket attack was reported in southern Israel on Thursday evening.

*Gaza terrorists on Thursday evening fired at fuel trucks in the Nachal Oz fuel depot area. No injuries.

POLITICS, DOMESTIC & MORE:

*Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu announced that if elected to office, as prime minister he will not honor a deal signed between PM Olmert and the PA’s Abu Mazen.

*Plaques made of bronze were stolen from a holocaust memorial in a Jewish cemetery in the northern Czech republic.

*Haifa’s Rambam Hospital on Thursday dedicated a mosque for Islamic worshipers.

*Former US President Jimmy Carter continues meeting with Hamas officials in Egypt.

*B’tselem human rights group calls for cessation of use of Flechette shell, the controversial Israeli tank shell that killed a Reuters cameraman.

*Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sees war with Israel as a real possibility and as such, is preparing.

*MK Tzachi Hanegbi, chairman of Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee is calling on Israel to retake Gaza.