Israeli physicist Yakir Aharonov, one of the nominees for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, was not selected as one of the three scientists who received the prestigious prize.

**The IDF has informed Arab farmers they may begin olive picking season, promising they will receive the required security while engaged in harvesting this year’s olive crop.

**Minister Silvan Shalom, who is calling to outlaw the Israel Islamic Association, is now demanding an urgent Knesset session to address the Arabs riots in eastern Yerushalayim.

**Two knives were discovered in the vehicle of a PA resident by soldiers at the IDF’s Beka’ot Checkpoint in the Jordan Valley area. The knives were confiscated and the occupants of the vehicle taken in for questioning.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)