SECURITY/DEFENSE:

*13:09: A Kassam rocket landed near Kibbutz Sa’ad without causing injuries.

*13:32: PA reports the IAF targeted a Kassam launcher.

*15:05: Rockets fell in an open area near Kibbutz Nachal Oz. No injuries.

*15:31: Kassam rockets landed inside northern Hamas-controlled Gaza.

*16:05: The air force targeted rocket launchers.

*16:25: Mortar shells land in southern Israel. No injuries reported.

*16:26: Two more rockets land in an open area in the Eshkol region. No injuries. In an earlier attack, buildings were damaged in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. No injuries.

POLITICS, DOMESTIC & MORE:

*Bayit Yehuda Knesset list: Rabbi Dr. Daniel Hershkowitz, MK Zevulun Orlev, MK Uri Ariel, Shuli Me’ulam, Uri Orbach. The big losers are MKs Rabbi Benny Elon and Tzvi Hendel, who were not elected to realistic slots on the party lineup.

*The tachograph from the ill-fated bus from the Eilat crash this week tells nothing. There was no recording disc inside. The driver, who was lightly injured, was released on Thursday from Beilinson Hospital.

*During the major Israel Police exercise in the Tzeilim base on Thursday, a police vehicle flipped and three people were injured, one seriously, one moderately and three lightly.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)