Health Ministry officials report Eilat resident Shimon Azran, 35, has become Israel’s first fatality resulting from swine flu.

**At least 50 of the 150 children in Bnei Brak’s Alei Institute have been diagnosed with swine flu.

**Israel National News reports Rav David Yosef, a son of Maran Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlita and head of the Yechavei Da’as Shas Kollel network resisted an illegal transaction by Solomon Dwek as he was working undercover for the FBI, seeking to entrap other individuals as he worked to save himself from prison.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)