SECURITY/DEFENSE:

*Today, Sunday, is day 68 of the virtual Gaza ceasefire.

*Today is Gilad Shalit’s 792nd day in Hamas captivity.

*Kassam rockets landed in southern Israel on Shabbos. There were no injuries.

*An IDF officer was lightly injured in a rock-throwing attack in the Chevron district on Shabbos. He was transported to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva.

*Two Arabs carrying two pipe bombs and a fragmentation grenade were apprehended on Shabbos at Beit Iba Checkpoint in the Shechem district of Shomron. The bombs were detonated without incident in a controlled explosion.

*ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) agents raided the Um el-Fahm office of the al-Aqsa Organization, linked to the Israel Islamic Association, reporting it has ties to Hamas.

*IDF soldiers involved in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron on motzei Shabbos arrested two suspects. the suspects were turned over to the ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) for interrogation.

POLITICS, DOMESTIC & MORE:

*Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) reported on motzei Shabbos that chareidim threw rocks at cars traveling on Bar Ilan Street in Yerushalayim. At least one windshield was smashed. No injuries were reported. Police are investigating.

*Maran Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita was released from the hospital.

*HaRav Shlomo Machpud Shlita, who was hospitalized in Italy, was released from hospital and is making his way back home to Eretz Yisrael.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)