SECURITY/DEFENSE:

*Today, Sunday, is day 75 of the virtual Gaza ceasefire.

*Today is Gilad Shalit’s 799th day in Hamas captivity.

POLITICS, DOMESTIC & MORE:

*The Defense Ministry will hold a drill this week addressing a biological or nuclear attack.

*Barak focusing on Russian speakers in an effort to bolster poll ratings.

*The former bureau chief of the late Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad announced no one really knows where Israeli spy Eli Cohen was buried, stating he was buried three different times.

*Hamas announces it will never accept an international force in Gaza.

*PM Olmert an PA Abu Mazen expected to meet in Yerushalayim on Sunday.

*Eruv damaged on Shabbos again in a number of Yerushalayim neighborhoods.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)