A driver sustained light injuries in a rock-throwing attack during the night near Jissar a-Zarkar on the Tel Aviv-Haifa Highway (Route 2). Israeli Arabs are suspected in the rock-throwing attack. The victim was transported to Hillel Yafeh Hospital in Chadera.

**Unseasonably warm temperatures expected on Sunday with no significant changes expected on Monday.

**US Mideast envoy on Saturday night flew to Cairo for meetings with President Hosni Mubarak and Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit prior to a meeting with PM Netanyahu.

**For a second time since taking office, US President Barak Obama has signed extending permission for the Washington office of the PLO.

**The Knesset winter session begins tomorrow, Monday.

**Israel Police on Sunday morning removed Har HaBayis restrictions, once again permitting non-Muslim visitors to the holy site.

**Activists celebrated Simchas Torah in Chomesh, holding tefillos and hakofos on location of the former N. Shomron community uprooted by Ariel Sharon and his government in what was called the Disengagement Plan of 2005.

**The closure on PA areas has been lifted. PA residents are now permitted to cross the Green Line into Israel proper.

**Nepal Chabad houses are suspect as cause for the typhoid cases, Israelis in their 20s now hospitalized in Israel.

(Written on isru chag in Eretz Yisrael – Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)