The couple listed in critical condition earlier in the week after ingesting a blowfish has regained consciousness. They are no longer in life-threatening danger and explain they did not know the fish is poisonous, adding they are not angry at their neighbor who gave them the fish.
 
**Israel Electric Company director Motty Friedman states if company reform program is implemented, 3,000 workers will lose their positions.
 
**Two mortar shells fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza during the night landed in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)