Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Tuesday asked visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the current American administration consider finally moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (While the decision to relocate the embassy was made a number of years ago, US presidents continue to ceremoniously veto the move, permitting the embassy to continue operating in Tel Aviv).

**The Labor Party’s young faction has announced if Ehud Barak does not announce he is not entering a coalition government headed by Likud in the next 48 hours, youth leaders will begin efforts towards ousting him.

**Ashkelon PTA officials agreed to call off their open-ended school strike until after Purim.

**Temperatures rising on Wednesday. Local showers may occur in the north.

**IDF soldiers involved in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron on Tuesday night arrested nine suspects.

**A former ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) director reports Egypt is not destroying tunnels and is not preventing weapons smuggling into Gaza.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)