Two mortar shells fell near Karni Crossing in the morning hours. No injuries.

**Members of the Badatz Eida Chareidis on Tuesday visited some of the detainees being held in the Russian Compound detention center.

**Health Ministry officials report 32 additional confirmed cases of swine flu in the past 48 hours.

**A fetus attached to a placenta was found in a bag in the Mega Center parking lot in Herzliya on Wednesday morning. The bag was found near a supermarket entrance on Hadar Street. Police are investigating.

**While Shas remains adamantly opposed to VAT tax on produce, Deputy Minister Yitzchak Cohen in a Galei Tzahal interview denied Rav Ovadia ordered them to leave the coalition if the tax is levied.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)