Today is Yosef HaTzaddik’s yahrzeit. About 1,000 people visited Kever Yosef in PA-occupied Shechem on Monday night.

**Egyptian Intelligence official Muhmad Ibrahim arrived in Israel on Tuesday for high-level talks to include the release of Gilad Shalit and the lifting of the Gaza embargo.

**Public Security Minister Aharonovitch visited Har HaBayis on Tuesday. The visit passed without incident. Arabs accuse him of a “provocative act”.

**Israel is refusing to issue the traditional VIP card to facilitate checkpoint passage to a new PA (Palestinian Authority) minister affiliated with the PFLP terror organization.

**Members of the family of the Kadosh murdered in Yemen were among the 16 new arrivals in Ben-Gurion International Airport this week (http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=35943).

**PM Netanyahu departed for Rome on Tuesday morning, after which he will be stopping in Paris and also meeting US Mideast envoy George Mitchell.

**Iti Elias, a 26-year-old Ashkelon resident was shot and killed during a robbery in Costa Rica. He was visiting together with his brother after completing IDF service. His body is scheduled to be flown home for kvura this week.

**Despite strong objections from major US contributors, former Prisoner of Conscience and cabinet minister Natan Sharansky is expected to be appointed as the new chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

**Police are investigating a Tuesday morning stabbing in Bet Shean in which an 18-year-old male was serious wounded over his entire body.

**Police announce additional arrests were made in a hand grenade attack against the home of Ashdod Mayor Dr. Yechiel Lasri, which occurred a number of weeks ago.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron on Monday night arrested 6 suspects.

**3 firebombs were hurled at a bus traveling near Karnei Shomron during the Monday evening rush hour. No injuries were reported.

**56 people were treated for swine flu across Israel on Sunday and Monday.

**A 7-year-old girl remains in serious condition on Tuesday morning after a near-fatal drowning near a Tiveria hotel on Monday. Tefillos are requested for Batsheva bas Adi.
**Maran Rav Shteinman Shlita on Monday visited HaGaon Rav Aryeh Finkel in his home following his release from hospital.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)