18:24: Rockets launched into the Gaza-belt area. Baruch Hashem, no injuries.

20:20: Arabs hurled a firebomb at a border police jeep in the Maale Adumim area. Baruch Hashem, no injuries.

**IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi on Thursday visited soldiers in Gaza. He also met with commanders of Golani and Givati infantry forces taking part in the Gaza counter-terror offensive.

**Schools in Shlomi and Nahariya are scheduled to open Friday on schedule.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)