A mortar shell that was launched from Egypt fell in the Moshav of Bnei Nezarim in the Negev and caused damage to a house and a car. No one was injured in the incident and the Egyptians claimed that it was an errant shot that flew off target and was not aimed at Israel.
Gazan protesters once again took up their weekly protests on Friday along the Gaza border. Throwing bombs and rocks at security forces. One terrorist was killed when he posed a clear and present danger to security forces who shot him.
Naval security forces arrested a suspicious person who was crossing the border from Egypt to Israel while swimming. The man was taken for questioning.
Three Fire Fighting Units were called in to gain control of a brush fire near an IDF Naval storage base known as Tovela Base located close to Tirat HaCarmel.
A two-year-old boy drowned in a private pool in Ra’anana. United Hatzalah volunteers together with MDA ambulance teams attempted to resuscitate the infant. Unfortunately, at the end of a lengthy CPR attempt, the EMS teams were forced to pronounce the boy’s death at the scene.
A 30-year-old man was transported to the hospital in serious condition after he drowned while scuba diving at the Almog Beach in Eilat.
A 30-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured after he was involved in an accident with a car near Kibbutz Ramat Yonatan in the Galilee.
A 38-year-old man was killed after his car hit a security barrier and another vehicle on Highway 75 near Yagur intersection.
A 30-year-old man was transported tot he hospital in critical condition after he drowned at an unsupervised beach near Kiryat Haim.
A woman in Beitar Illit was bitten by a Viper on Friday night while walking in the Tamar neighborhood of the city. She was treated at the scene by United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Gedalia Shtibel, who works as a snake catcher. Gedalia then captured the snake on a nearby street and brought it to the mobile intensive care ambulance to be brought to the hospital so that the doctors could replicate an antidote. After Shabbat, Gedalia told BChadrei Charedim that Halacha permits the capturing of a snake that has bitten someone even on Shabbat in order to allow the doctors to administer the appropriate remedy.
Israeli windsurfer Katy Spychakov, 20, won the silver medal on Saturday at the RS:X World Championships at Lake Garda in Italy. Her victory is the first time an Israeli won a medal in the sport in the global competition since 2014.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)