A 42-year-old male was admitted to an isolation room in Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital on Monday, feared to be the ninth victim of swine flu in Eretz Yisrael.

**Likud MKs Dr. Benny Begin, Dan Meridor and Michael Eitan join Laborites and others opposed to the anti-Nakba bill intended to ban Nakba observance labeling the establishment of the State of Israel a “catastrophe”.

**Maran Rav Shmuel Halevy Wosner Shlita today returned to yeshiva in Bnei Brak, giving his first shiur since taking ill and requiring surgery.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terrorist operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron arrested six suspects on Monday night.

**In the first quarter of 2009, El Al lost $40 million, $10 million less than the same quarter a year ago.

**A hachnasas sefer torah is being held on Tuesday night in the Vishnitz kehillah in Har Nof, Jerusalem. attending will be HaGaon Rav Yisrael Hager. The completion of the sefer torah will begin at 5:00pm.

**A hachnasas sefer torah will take place in the Erlau beis medresh in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood on Wednesday night at 6:00pm.

**The IDF Homefront Command on Tuesday morning distributed the Yiddish emergency instruction CD in Bnei Brak.

**Finance Minister Dr. Yuval Shteinitz approved a significant increase in payments for the nation’s 42,000 Holocaust survivors.

**Dati leumi notables are working to persuade Rav Yitzchak Shapira Shlita, rosh yeshiva of Merkaz HaRav, to agree to enter into the race for Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)