9:19am: Red Alert warning siren sounds in the area of Gaza-belt communities. Siren was a false alarm.

**Leaders of communities throughout Yehuda and Shomron are concerned over the sharp increase in attacks, blaming the alarming trend on the relaxation of security restrictions on PA (Palestinian Authority) residents.

**Temperatures are expected to increase in the coming days, leading to a major sharav heat-wave on Wednesday.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron arrested three suspects on motzei Shabbos.

**Governor of the Bank of Israel Prof. Stanley Fisher on Sunday announced he sees the first signs of emerging from the global economic crisis but quickly added that Israel has not yet seen the end of the fall resulting from the crisis. Fisher on Sunday met with President Shimon Peres.

**An ‘emergency’ was declared in the President’s Residence on Sunday morning after a letter in the daily mailbag was suspected of being containing an explosive.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)