366 new olim from N. America arrived on Wednesday morning on yet another NBN aliyah flight. Welcome home!

**Security forces apprehended 46 illegals in the Shfaram area.

**Firefighters will be operating on a limited ‘emergency only’ basis in protest against Interior Ministry budget cuts to the service.

**For the first time in 15 months, unemployment figures are not up. Last month, for the first time since May 2008, unemployment figures are optimistic – down from the previous month but there are still over 200,000 registered unemployed Israelis.

**The family of missing IDF soldier Guy Chever has launched a website on his behalf – http://www.guyhever.com.

**10 children were injured in a crash involving a bus at Nir Galim Junction.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron on Tuesday night arrested 12 suspects.

**A 64-y/o woman, chronically ill, has died of swine flu in Soroka Medical Center, health officials report. Health officials reports she is the 10th swine flu victim.

**A number of activists broke into the Beit HaShalom structure in the Chevron area during the night. The area is a ‘closed military zone’. Soldiers ousted the Jewish activists during the early morning hours.

**HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita and HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita call on the tzibur to observe a fast today, erev rosh chodesh Elul, in response to swine flu.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)