600 riders took part in Jerusalem’s 27 kilometer bike marathon on Friday including a number of blind riders and double cycles.

**A wanted suspect was taken into custody by IDF soldiers operating near Ramallah on Thursday night.

**The IDF on Friday removed two Kalkilye area checkpoints, Ckpt 442 and a second near the southern end of the PA autonomous city as the government continues to relax security restrictions on PA residents in compliance with US demands.

**A female was gravely injured in a hit and run accident near Har Choma in Yerushalayim on Friday.

**The latest unauthorized outpost was established on Friday near Kochav Yaakov in Shomron, called Baktat Obama (Obama’s Hut) in an apparent response to the US president’s address from Cairo on Thursday.

**World Health Organization officials are meeting to discuss the continued spread of swine flu. The meeting will be headed by the organization’s Director-General, Margaret Chan.

**US President Obama will be accompanied by Nobel Prize laureate Eli Wiesel when he visits the Buchenwald death camp.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)