Border police near the Machpelah on Tuesday night apprehended an Arab with a knife. During his interrogation, it became evident the suspect is somewhat unstable and planned to use the knife to harm himself.

**Rabbi Pinchas Saltzman and his firm is filing a NIS 250 million lawsuit against the prime minister and defense minister due to the building freeze, halting the construction of 1,850 housing units in Modi’in Illit.

**A blaze erupted in a Beersheva building. One man sustained moderate injuries.

**An Israeli motorist was bombarded with rocks near el-Aroub north of Chevron on Tuesday night.

**An Iraqi newspaper reports the government is contemplating a lawsuit against Israel for the 1981 bombing attack against the Osiraq nuclear reactor.

**A tourist in his 20s was found unconscious in a Tzfas yeshiva. An arrest was made in the case, apparently pointing to an assault. The victim remains in critical condition. No additional information at this time.

**Sources in Gaza report 1 dead and 4 injured in Khan Yunis in an IAF raid in response to renewed rocket attacks.

**A biometric security program, a pilot station, has begun operating in Ben-Gurion International Airport. The unit involves fingerprints and retina scanning of passengers.

**3 Egyptian infiltrators were apprehended by border police in the area of Mitzpei Ramon in southern Israel on Tuesday evening.

**Jerusalem firefighters are taking part in a training event in the Dan Panorama Hotel.

**Civil Administration officials were met at the entrance of Hashmonaim by activists who blocked their paths on Wednesday morning as they tried to serve stop-construction orders.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)