IDF soldiers involved in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron on motzei Shabbos arrested three suspects.

**President Shimon Peres and opposition leader Tzipi Livni have left for Washington where they will meet with administration officials. They will attend the AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) annual conference.

**Ha’emek Hospital (Afula) support staff will strike on Sunday due to the lack of progress in labor talks.

**The air force over the weekend targeted weapons tunnels in Gaza following a Kassam rocket attack without injuries in the Sderot area.

**Interior Minister Eli Yishai supports significantly increasing the size of Maale Adumim.

**A pedestrian was killed on Tel Aviv’s Ben-Tzvi Boulevard on Sunday morning. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

**A 70-year-old patient at Tel Aviv’s Tel Hashomer Hospital believed to have fallen on some very difficult financial times on Sunday morning jumped to her death from a third story hospital room window.

**Haifa area firefighters on Sunday morning responded to a blaze in a disco/entertainment room of an IDF base in the city. The blaze was brought under control. There were no injuries reported.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)