09:43:

Prominent dati leumi rav and upcoming posek Rabbi Moti Alon this morning was found guilty of indecent acts against young men. The case against the rav began some three years ago.

09:55:

Dozens of Arab youths targeted IDF soldiers with rocks and firebombs near Beit Omar in the Gush Etzion area. B’chasdei Hashem only one soldier was injured, lightly.

10:10:

A Turkish national was arrested on suspicion of murdering and dismembering his girlfriend. This pertains to the case with the body found in a suitcase in the Tel Aviv area on shabbos.

10:20:

Police are looking for an eyewitness to a hit and run that occurred on Tuesday evening on Sderot Yerushalayim in Tel Aviv. A man in his 40s was seriously injured.

10:30:

Four IDF soldiers were injured light-to-moderately during an operation in the north during the night. The IDF spokesman reports “an explosion occurred” leading to their injuries.

10:44:

An IDF soldier was lightly injured in a rock attack near Beit Omar in the Gush Etzion district during the night.

11:00:

Israel Railways disruptions reported on all lines as dozens of train motormen called in sick today. The move is a protest against moving over to computerized scheduling and timekeeping.

11:30:

8,100 children have received the oral polio vaccine booster in the first two days of the program launched in southern Israel.

12:58:

A 35-year-old foreign worker was bitten by a snake in the Upper Galil. He is reported in moderate condition.

13:35:

Yesterday, the IDF facilitated the transfer of 285 trucks with 7,330 tons of goods to Gaza, including 643 tons of ceramics

14:04:

The national average workers’ monthly salary increased in March to May 2013 by 1.4% to 8,952 NIS, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)