07:00:

Two IDF soldiers sustained light injuries on Wednesday afternoon from stray mortar shell fire from Syria into the Golan Heights. The IDF responded by destroying the launcher.

08:20:

A wounded Syrian in moderate-to-serious condition was admitted to Ziff Hospital in Tzfas.

09:00:

13 PA residents inside Green Line Israel illegally were arrested in Kfar Kana by Nazareth district police. A Kfar Kana resident in hi 50s was also arrested for assisting the illegals.

10:00

Brigadier-General Yoav Mordechai will step down next week as IDF spokesman to become the military’s coordinator of activities in the territories. He will be replaced by Brigadier-General Moti Almoz.

10:34:

Price tag attack targets Arab vehicles east of Ramallah. Vehicles were torched and graffiti stated Geulat Tzion loves Tomer Hazan, an IDF soldier murdered in recent weeks. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=188262

12:29:

A man sustained serious injury from a fall from the fourth floor of a building on Efrata Street in Yerushalayim.

13:00:

Afula Mayor Avi Alkabetz is hospitalized for observation in HaEmek Hospital in the city after complaining of severe head pain.

13:13:

Former President Moshe Katsav is signaling that he will be seeking a new trial.

13:15:

Rock-throwing at mispallalim at Kever Shimon HaTzaddik in Yerushalayim.

14:00:

A 63-year-old bike rider was struck by a truck and killed in Caesarea.

14:30:

A 7-month-old baby sustained moderately injury when hot coffee spilled on him in Sirkin Mall in Petach Tikvah. He was transported to Schneider Children’s Hospital.

14:50:

14 yeshiva students who were arrested for anti-Arab acts of vandalism in Jerusalem have been released from detention.

15:15:

Israeli prisoner Arnon Levitt, who disappeared while on furlough from prison, was returned to Israel today, escorted by US agents. He was serving a sentence for conviction on car theft and credit card fraud and disappeared on leave in November 2000.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)