IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron arrested 8 suspects during the night.

**Defense Minister Ehud Barak is taking a one-week vacation, his post will be filled by Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.

**Colonel Yehuda Fuchs was assigned to head the IDF’s Bahad 1 Officers’ Training Base.

**An MDA dispatcher talked a woman and taxi driver through childbirth on Hwy 6 near Horshim. Mother and daughter were transported by ambulance to Laniado Hospital in Netanya.

**A motorist was lightly injured in a rock-throwing attack on the Hussan Bypass Rd. in Gush Etzion.

**Jerusalem Police Chief Franco has deployed additional troops in Jerusalem in the hope of restoring order. His car was badly damaged by chareidi rock-throwers in Wednesday’s violence.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)