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Sunday Morning News Briefs from Eretz Yisrael


Six terrorists were wounded in exchanges of gunfire between Fatah and Hamas gunmen in Kalkilye. The PA has imposed a curfew.

**Israel’s fourth President, Ephraim Katzir, will be laid to rest on Sunday at 6:00pm in Rechovot, alongside his wife and not in the leaders section of Har Herzl. He died in his Rechovot home on Shabbos at the age of 93.

**There are now 19 cases of swine flu in Israel.

**The five-day nationwide preparedness exercise, Turning Point 3, gets underway today, Sunday.

**The Shvut Ami outpost near Kedumim was removed by authorities on motzei Shabbos. Six people were present in the outpost when authorities arrived.

** At midnight, another gas increase will go into effect, bringing the price of a liter of 95 octane to NIS 6.14, the equivalent of $6.21/US gallon.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)



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