A Kassam rocket landed in the western Negev during the night. No injuries were reported.

**MDA, Israel’s emergency medical service, is moving to its highest state of operational preparedness. On-call personnel will take ambulances to their homes and scooter/motorcycle units will be on alert throughout the country.

**Rock-throwing attacks reported on the Hussan Bypass Road near Betar in Gush Etzion. No injuries reported.

**An Arab armed with a knife was taken into custody by border police near the Ma’arat HaMachpelah in Chevron. No injuries.

**PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) met in Rome with Pope Benedict XVI.

**A vehicle belonging to a resident of Adei Ad was damaged in a rock-throwing attack near Shilo. Baruch Hashem, no injuries.

**Rock attacks reported against Jewish motorists from Chirbat Adir, an Arab village between Efrat and the eastern Gush Etzion community of Tekoa. No injuries reported.

**An Israeli bus was targeted with rocks near the el-Aroub refugee camp on the Chevron – Gush Etzion Road. No injuries reported.

**A Druse border policeman stands accused of accepting bribes from PA (Palestinian Authority) residents to smuggle them across the Green Line.

**PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and his Fatah Party are calling for a general sector strike tomorrow, Friday, in light on ongoing violence in  the eastern capital, seeking to capitalize on the renewed Islamic fever.

**An Israeli medical team comprised of physicians, nurses, paramedics and others professionals is heading to Manila to treat victims of the storms in the Philippians’ capital.

** Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt criticized Israel for making a “mistake” for not adopting the findings of the Goldstone Commission.

**About 800 mispalalim were permitted to visit Kever Yosef in PA-occupied Shechem during the night under heavy IDF escort.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)