IDF soldiers involved in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron arrested 10 suspects on Sunday night.

**Finance Minister Dr. Yuval Shteinitz announced on Monday the government would not bail out Lev Leviev and other tycoons. Leviev’s stock plummeted over 25% on Sunday.

**Al-Shark Al-Awsat reports one of the points of disagreement in Shalit negotiations is Israel’s refusal to include Israeli Arab citizens in a prisoner release deal.

**Officials are trying to prevent PA classes in eastern Jerusalem schools.

**Protesters supporting students from Petach Tikvah’s Ethiopian community blocked traffic on Monday.

**Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar Shlita reportedly told officials he cannot support enrolling children from the Petach Tikvah Ethiopian community into secular schools because of halachic issues involved.

**Firefighters on Monday afternoon worked to extinguish a forest fire in the Ben Shemen Forest.

**A navy ship fired at an Arab fishing vessel which crossed out of Gazan waters on Monday morning. No injuries were reported.

**Two men in their 20s from the village of A’avlin in the Galil were arrested on suspicion of dealing in the sale of weapons.

**PA news reports Egyptian security forces operating along the Gaza border prevent smugglers from bringing hundreds of kilograms of explosives into Gaza.

**The IDF’s Civil Administration issued destruction orders for 19 homes in Gilad Farm and Yitzhar communities. Some of the orders are on homes already slated for destruction by the government in the past.

**Four chareidim were arrested in protests outside the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute on Monday where they were trying to prevent an autopsy on a Geula man murdered in a Tzfania Street hostel on Sunday night.

**Ministry of Education officials report 1,502,600 students will be back in school on Tuesday, September 1st.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)