Sirens sounded in northern Israel on Friday morning alerting residents. A malfunction was blamed for the false alarm.

**For the first time in the state’s history, a plane carrying 150 S. American immigrants landed in Ben-Gurion International Airport carrying new arrivals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.

**There were no injuries reported in a Sderot area Kassam rocket attack on Thursday evening.

**A resident of the Gush Etzion community of Elon Shvut delivered twins in the ambulance en route to a Jerusalem hospital. Mother and children are reportedly well.

**Chareidi youths on Friday morning dumped hundreds of bags of garbage in a parking lot of the Ministry of Education which borders Meah Shearim.

**Rav Yisrael Weiss of Neturei Karta on Friday led a four-man solidarity mission which met with Hamas PM Ismail Haniyah.

**IDF soldiers on Thursday night apprehended an Arab male armed with a knife near the Machpelah in Chevron.

**A 47 Y/O male and an 85 Y/O female have been diagnosed as Israel’s first cases of west nile virus this year.

**The Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Rebbe Shlita at the last moment indefinitely postponed his annual retreat to Switzerland upon learning avreichim and employees of his mosdos have not been paid for the past four months due to the difficult fiscal situation.

**As of Friday morning, 187 people lost their lives on the nation’s roadways since Jan. 1, 2009.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)