IDF soldiers involved in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron arrested 15 suspects on Wednesday night.

**Opposition MKs have decided to attend committee hearings dealing with the biennial budget and the Economics Arrangements Bill, calling of their boycott for the time being.

**Two Haifa area undercover narcotic detectives led to the arrest of 36 drug dealers.

**The prosecution is seeking a harsh prison term for former Finance Minister Avraham Hirschson, who has been found guilty of bribery and related charges. The state is seeking a longer sentence that the other defendants. The harshest sentence in the case to date was 4 years and 8 months in prison.

**Following a meeting in Washington with Secretary of State Clinton, Foreign Minister Lieberman stated settlement construction would not be halted.

**Chareidim late Wednesday night burned garbage cans in Yerushalayim in protest against next week’s to’eva parade.

**A 10-month-old infant was found abandoned in a Jaffe area mosque on Wednesday next to a bag of clothing. The infant was turned over to social services. Police believe the mother may have been unable to provide for the child.

**A 17-year-old male was stabbed and moderately injured in a brawl on Pearlstein Street in Bat Yam on Thursday morning. Two youths are in custody.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)