A Petach Tikvah man who drives a school van was detained by police for questioning after forgetting a small child in the parked vehicle. Passersby spotted the vehicle and summoned assistance. Baruch Hashem the child was not in need of emergency medical care.

**Members of the extreme left-wing Peace Now organization call the government’s building freeze a “political farce”.

**Today, 18 Elul marks the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov and the Bal HaTanya, Rav Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

**5 members of a family were killed in a late-night collision near Jenin on Sunday night. The victims are members of an Arab family traveling for their Ramadan evening meal.

**A 35-y/o male was stabbed to death in Ramat Gan in a business dispute on Monday afternoon. The perpetrator fled the scene.

**IDF soldiers during the night destroyed structures in the Givat Avichai Outpost near Kiryat Arba.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)