The IAF targeted two smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza as rocket attacks become increasingly commonplace. A Kassam rocket landed in southern Israel Wednesday night.

**43 new justices were appointed to the nation’s magistrate’s courts on Wednesday by the selection committee.

**IDF Homefront Command at 11:00am on Thursday tested emergency sirens in the area of Kibbutz Be’eri and Ra’em.

**Unseasonably warm temperatures forecast for shabbos, the first day of Sukkos.

**Police during the night arrested nine eastern Jerusalem Arab residents suspected of involvement in Yom Kippur violence and attacks. Additional arrests are expected, police report.

**Marking 9 years since the infamous October riots in the Israeli Arab sector, in which 13 people were killed; the Israeli Arab sector on Thursday is observing a general strike, including the closure of schools.

**IDF soldiers involved in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron on Wednesday night arrested 10 suspects.

**The Nadvorna Rebbe Shlita is reported in good condition following a two-hour surgery on Wednesday to remove a growth detected in his brain. The surgery was performed by the chief of neurosurgery in Ichilov Hospital, Prof. Tzvika Rom.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)