One winner has been announced in the NIS 40 million lottery, the first winner in two months. Had the ticket holder bought a ‘double’ ticket, his earnings would have amounted to NIS 80 million.

**Two-wheeled motorized vehicles caused significant delays on Tel Aviv’s Derech Namir on Wednesday morning in protest against a planned increase of tens of percent for compulsory insurance for the two-wheeled vehicles.

**Al-Shark al-Awsat reports closing a deal for Gilad Shalit’s release is delayed due to an inability to agree on 125 terrorists appearing on Hamas’ list. Hamas is refusing to Israeli demands that they be exiled abroad and not released to PA areas.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terror operations in Yehuda and Shomron arrested 5 suspects on Tuesday night.

**Today, 27 Elul is the yahrzeit of the ‘Sar Shalom’ of Belz.

**Israel Insurance Association officials have signed a ‘heter iska’ with rabbonim of the Badatz Eida Chareidis.

**DM Barak and IDF Chief Ashkenazi on Tuesday evening visited bereaved families of the Bedouin community, joining them in their post-Ramadan fast meal.

**Residents of the Chorsha outpost, which was ordered removed by the Supreme Court, demonstrated outside Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s home in the Gush Etzion community of El David, also known as Nokdim.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)