Northern District Police Chief Koren announced increased alert status in his district following failed bomb attack motzei Shabbos.

**Health officials on Sunday morning closed the Dead Sea area beach opposite a number of hotels including Hod HaMidbar, Meridian and Holiday Inn due to raw sewage spilling into the water in the area.

**A safe containing NIS tens of thousands was stolen from a bakery on Even Givrol Street on Sunday.

**At the opening of Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting, PM Olmert stated the preliminary investigation into the Haifa mall attack points to a terror cell operating in Yehuda or Shomron.

**Al-Hayat newspaper reports Shalit talks to resume in Cairo this week.

**Rambam Medical Center officials report an 18-month-old toddler is in very serious condition after being admitted on Sunday, the result of choking on a piece of food. The infant was in cardiac arrested when paramedics arrived on the scene.

**A 15-year-old Ashkelon public school student is in light condition in Barzilai Hospital. He was stabbed in a leg during a dispute with a classmate in school.

**Histadrut national labor federation leader Ofir Eini calls on Ehud Barak not to accept a defense minister appointment outside the Labor Party framework.

**Netanya: NIS hundreds of thousands stolen from a watch store on Karauza Street on the city’s pedestrian mall. Police are investigating.

**Consumer council reports supermarkets have moved subsidized breads and eggs to less convenient shelves to promote more profitable items. 

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)