Reports from Gaza state 55 children were stricken with food poisoning after eating food that was past its date in a UN school in Gaza. Some of the children are hospitalized, reported in critical condition.

** Convicted Rabin assassin Yigal Amir is seeking to petition the High Court of Justice over the decision to punish him by depriving him of basic rights in retaliation for granting an unauthorized interview with the media, which was never aired.

**Knesset security officials are investigating a report of a stolen sum of money from an office of one of the MKs.

**A Negev resident is in custody after customs agents at a border crossing from Jordan to Israel found 5.6kg of heroin behind a panel situated behind the vehicles glove compartment.

**In Jordan, the trial of two locals began, suspected of plotting to murder two Jewish businessmen. The two deny the charges against them.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)