06:30:

A total of 12 firebombs were hurled at IDF soldiers during the night near el-Aroub as well as other areas in the Gush Etzion district. No injuries.

07:00:

450 Falash Mura are scheduled to arrive in Israel from Ethiopia today.

07:15:

Hundreds of employees of Hadassah Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus Hospitals are blocking the roads leading to the medical centers as work sanctions continue.

07:30:

A 30-year-old wounded Syrian man was admitted to the trauma unit of Ziv Hospital in Tzfas with an abdominal gunshot wound last night.

10:46:

The IDF has begun deploying anti aircraft batteries in Haifa, Carmiel, Tzfat and Golan Heights ahead of a possible Syrian attack.

10:57:

Due to the increase in call volume, phones of the IDF’s Homefront Command and Israel Postal Company gas mask services have collapsed.

11:11:

IAF fighter planes patrolling the skies along Syrian and Lebanese borders.

11:13:

MK (National Democratic Assembly) Hanin Zoabi has announced she will run in Nazareth mayoral race.

12:22:

Massive stone throwing at Israeli motorists in eastern Gush Etzion about 2km from Tekoa, in the direction of Efrat.

12:39:

The IDF Homefront Command has not set up a gas mask location in Beersheva, compelling residents to travel to Ashkelon.

13:07:

The IDF is moving another Iron Dome system to the north in addition to the one in Haifa. Consideration is also being given to moving an Iron Dome to the Gush Dan area.

13:13:

22 people were injured; at least 2 seriously when an Egged bus lost control and hit an Arab pickup truck on Route 60 near Halhul, north of Hebron. This was the accident Ichud Hatzalah was responding to from the Tekoa area when attack by Arabs hurling rocks.

13:30:

Jerusalem light rail service halted as a result of a structural fire in the Kikar Tzion area.

14:30:

Al-Jazeera reports tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing to Lebanon fearing a US attack.

15:24:

An 8-year-old girl in a school for developmentally challenged children choked while eating. She was transported to a hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead. An autopsy was ordered.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)