10:15:

Three Arab women were arrested near the Shomron community of Har Bracha with knives. They were taken into custody. A fourth woman fled. The suspects in custody stated that they had knives for farming work.

15:00:

The remains of a rocket fired from Gaza into Sderot during the visit of US President Barak Obama was found in a Sderot daycare center. Bomb technicians were summoned to remove it from the area.

17:55:

Rock-throwing attacks during the past hour in the Beit Omer, Beit Anoun, el-Aroub, Hussan Bypass Rd. and Route 55 regions. An Israeli Arab motorist was lightly injured in an attack on the Hussan Bypass Road.

19:00:

An IDF court has convicted PA security officer Waal al-Araja, from the Halhul area, of the September 2010 murder of Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonatan HY”D. They were killed in a fatal accident that resulted from stone-throwing attacks by the defendant.

19:38:

Two Kassam rockets launched from Gaza land in the Eshkol Regional Council area. No injuries being reported.

19:39:

An IDF soldier was struck in his head with a rock hurled by Arabs in Shomron near Yitzhar. His injury is being described as light.

19:50:

A mortar shell landed in the Golan Heights. There are no immediate reports of injuries.

19:51:

A chareidi youth was burned during a barbeque on Haganah Street in Tzfas. He clothing caught fire. He was treated by Ichud Hatzalah EMTs who said “by a miracle he was only moderately injured”. He was transported to Ziv Hospital in Tzfas.

20:10:

Opposition leader MK Shelly Yacimovich explains that over one half of the nation’s workforce earns less than 5,500 NIS monthly and this does not include those classified as “poor”.

20:14:

While recalcitrant husband Shai Cohen remains at large, police have announced the guards from the Nachshon Unit who failed to prevent his escape will be removed from duty along with a number of commanders, all being held accountable for the mishap.

20:59:

Light weapons fire from Syria into the Golan Heights in Tel Chezka area. No reports of injuries or damage.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)