07:45:

Ichud Hatzalah: A 78-year-old male was seriously injured when his vehicle flipped over on Jerusalem’s Uzi Narkiss Bridge.

08:30:

About 90% of Yerushalayim schools are operating today however they will only begin at 10:00 due to fears of early morning road icing.

09:30:

The elderly driver from the Uzi Narkiss Bridge accident was niftar in an emergency room. An Ichud Hatzalah EMT reports it appears the vehicle flipped on its roof as a result of black ice.

09:45:

A 73-year-old male was found on a bench at a light rail stop in Pisgat Ze’ev in Yerushalayim earlier. He was in cardiac arrest, presumably from hypothermia. CPR was initiated and he was transported to a local emergency room.

10:00:

Police found a stolen iPhone taken from a Netanya woman this morning by using a GPS locating system. When police found it on the seat of a city resident’s car, he explained his wife’s phone was stolen last week so he decided to replace it by doing the same.

10:52:

The IDF warns the growing number of visitors arriving in the Golan Heights to enjoy the snow to beware of minefields.

11:27:

Defense Minister Ya’alon announced that in two week, the salary of IDF mandatory soldiers will increase by 22%.

11:46:

The man found in cardiac arrest at a light rail station earlier in the day was pronounced dead in Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital.

11:51:

IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terrorism operations in Yehuda and Shomron during the night arrested 17 suspects and confiscated a rifle and ammunition in Hebron.

13:30:

A construction worker in his 20s fell from a considerable height on Kibbutzim Blvd. in Rehovot. Efforts by Ichud Hatzalah paramedics and EMTS to save him failed. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)