The IAF during the night targeted weapons tunnels in Hamas-controlled Gaza.

**Ad D’lo Yoda Purim parade on Achuza Street in Ra’anana on erev Shabbos.

**Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced his country will join the United States and Canada in boycotting the Durban Conference to be held in April in Geneva due to the anti-Semitic overtones accompanying the conference.

**A 65-year-old male was seriously injured when a bus struck him on Jerusalem’s Emek Refaim Street. The victim was transported to the trauma unit of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.

**Three people were killed on the nation’s roadways this week and nine seriously injured. Since January 1, 2009, 53 motorists and pedestrians were killed on the nation’s roads.

**Realizing the sharp increase in rock-throwing attacks against Jewish motorists throughout Yehuda and Shomron, the treasury has allocated NIS 2.5 million for Lexan protective windows for cars of Yosh residents. The windows are capable of withstanding blows from moderate sized rocks. The Olmert administration cut the funding to the protective car window program some time ago.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)