A ceremony will be held in the President’s Residence on Tuesday night marking 20 years since the start of aliyah from the Former Soviet Union.
**An attempt to make off with an MDA ambulance from the Yerucham home of an on-call EMT failed during the night due to the ambulance’s sophisticated anti-theft mechanism, Negev MDA officials report.
**No injuries reported in an Um el-Fahm residential blaze on Tuesday afternoon.
**No injuries reported in a Ramat Gan store fire on Jabotinsky Street.
**Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Levanon filed a formal complaint following a statement earlier in the week by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, who labeled Israel “the enemy’.
**No injuries reported in a Tuesday afternoon blaze in a residential complex in Kfar Kassam.
**A young girl was evacuated in an unconscious state after sustaining a significant fall in a Golan Heights nachal on Tuesday afternoon. A chopper was dispatched to assist in evacuating her from the scene.
**A sharp drop in temperatures is expected around the country on Wednesday morning accompanied by local showers in some areas.
**Multiple rock-throwing attacks in the Gush Etzion district of Yehuda on Tuesday afternoon. No injuries. Damage reported.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)