· Communications Minister Gilad Erdan announced the long disputed television tax will be eliminated on March 31, 2015. This is dependent on t he Knesset passing his bill seeking to eliminate the Israel Broadcast Authority and replace it with a new entity.

· Jonathan Pollard has been hospitalized.

· Hadassah Hospital announces 4-year-old Feige Rosenstruk z”l, from the Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood of Yerushalayim that drowned in the bathtub a number of days ago has died.

· Ichud Hatzalah: A 20-year-old male sustained a serious head injury when he was struck by a bus on Keren HaYesod Street in the capital.

· Sirens sounded several times in Sderot last night. B’chasdei Hashem there were no fatalities or injuries.

· The weapons ship boarded by Israel Navy commandos on Wednesday is expected to arrive in the Port of Eilat on motzei Shabbos.

· Egypt plans to cancel the citizenship of 14,000 people who received citizenship under Morsi, who back Hamas. The terror organization has been declared illegal.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)