· A minor who lives in the Israeli Arab Municipality of Um el-Fahm was arrested after police searched his home and found four pipe bombs and Karl Gustav automatic weapon.

· Nine persons were injured in an accident involving a bus and private vehicles at Beit Jubrin Junction in the south. They were transported to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. None of the injuries are described as serious.

· The Hamas regime in Gaza this morning executed three persons convicted of murder. Two were hanged and one brought before a firing squad.

· A 70-year-old man was moderately injured when his vehicle flipped on Route 412 traveling from Rehovot to Nes Tziona. He was transported to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital.

· MK Amir Peretz told Kol Chai Radio there is not a chance in the world that the Machane Tzioni party will join the coalition government.

· Siren testing was conducted in the W. Galil this morning.

· Someone jumped into the tracks and run over by a train at Tel Aviv’s Haganah station in an apparent suicide.

· A 60-year-old worker was gravely injured in a work accident in the Nirlat factory in Nir Ohz. He was flown by chopper to the trauma unit in Soroka Hospital in Beersheva in critical condition.

· A 30-year-old worker sustained moderate injuries in an elevator shaft injury in Yad Vashem. He was transported to the trauma unit of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.

· Rock-throwing reported on the Gush Etzion-Hebron Hwy in the el-Aroub area. B”H no injuries.

· Opposition leader Yitzchak Herzog calls the makeup of the current coalition “right-wing extremist”.

· IDF fired at two boats outside permitted fishing area in S. Gaza. One man was wounded by the gunfire, transported to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, where he is listed in light-to-moderate condition.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)