IDF soldiers taking part in counterterrorism operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron on motzei Shabbos arrested one suspect in Ramallah.

** The IAF during the night targeted terrorists in Gaza in retaliation for continued rocket attacks into southern Israel.

06:45: Israel’s longshoremen have launched a strike this morning shutting the nation’s ports.

** The level of the Kinneret rose and additional 6cm over the weekend due to continued rainfall Baruch Hashem.

** The Beilinson Hospital emergency room held two hour strike on Sunday morning, from 10am-noon, operating on a limited Shabbos schedule in protest against an assault against a male nurse.

10:55: One person was killed and at least 30 others sustained light injuries in a collision between a truck and a bus on Route 3 near Sorek Junction. The injured were transported to Kaplan Hospital in Rechovot.

** Route 12 near Eilat has opened to civilian traffic for the first time since last year’s fatal terror attack in that area in which 8 Israelis were murdered by terrorists that infiltrated into Israel from Sinai.

12:10PM: A Haifa court remanded two suspects in Haifa beating of IDF soldiers on Shabbos morning by five days as police continue their investigation.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)