SECURITY/DEFENSE:

*PA: IDF forces entered the Shechem home of Hamas parliament member Muna Mansur before dawn and arrested her along with many others in the counter-terror operation.

*Monday morning rock attacks against a bus traveling near the Shomron community of Ofrah. No injuries were reported.

*Border police apprehended 116 illegal PA residents in the Negev community of Rahat.

*An Israeli who accidentally entered PA-controlled Yericho was taken by PA police and brought to Israeli security officials unharmed. He was taken to police who will address his violation against the IDF ban against Israelis entering PA autonomous areas.

*A soldier was moderately injured on Wednesday while practicing on a parachute simulator. He was transported to Kaplan Hospital.

POLITICS, DOMESTIC & MORE:

*A 1-year-old was listed in moderate/stable condition after being stung by a yellow scorpion in Kibbutz Yetav on Monday morning. The victim was transported by paramedics to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Yerushalayim.

*An indictment was handed down against Cheftziba CEO Boaz Yonah in the Jerusalem District Court on Monday morning as part of the plea bargain deal reached between his attorneys and the prosecution.

*In her address welcoming British PM Brown Gordon Brown to Knesset, Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik stated Iran’s nuclear missiles are not only pointed at Israel, but at the UK as well.

*British PM Gordon Brown told the Knesset that Yerushalayim will be the capital of two nations, Israel and Palestine.

*Miki Goldwasser on Monday called herself a “soldier on behalf of Gilad Shalit”.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)