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Sunday News Briefs from Eretz Yisrael


200 trucks carrying humanitarian aid will enter Gaza via Kerem Shalom Crossing on Sunday.

**Violent protests took place at Na’alin on Sunday morning against the construction of the security partition fence in the area.

**A male who criticized two election activists as they pasted posters on Jerusalem’s HaPisga Street was injured when the two sprayed him with teargas. The victim was transported to a local hospital. Police are investigating.

**Today, Sunday, is Gilad Shalit’s 959th day in Hamas captivity.

**A woman was pulled from a home on Yigal Alon Street in Ramat HaSharon by EMS personnel and other agencies responding to a gas leak. She was reported in serious condition, unconscious upon the arrival of the EMS team.

**A 35-year-old male was taken to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa in police custody after acting violently in the MDA ambulance, resulting in significant damage but baruch Hashem, no injuries. After the patient was asked to sign a payment guarantee, his brother told him in Arabic to “act crazy,” which prompted his violent behavior. Police responded and placed him in custody.

**PM Olmert on Friday was questioned by police for a 13th time, this time for 3.5 hours. The questioning was the last with police in his capacity as prime minister.

**The prosecution has informed attorney Brad Simon, representing Moshe Talansky, that if his client does not comply with his obligation to return to testify in the case against PM Ehud Olmert, the state may take action against him, including the placement of a lien on his apartment and bank account.  

**For a second time in three weeks, bandits on Sunday robbed the postal bank on Savion’s HaShikma Street.

**At the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, PM Olmert criticized the widespread publicity surrounding an “imminent deal” towards the release of Gilad Shalit.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)



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