Noam and Aviva Shalit were at Eretz Crossing for a ceremony on Wednesday, telling members of the press their son Gilad has been in captivity for 1,221 days and there is no end in sight.

**Subsidized bread prices will drop 3.58% on Thursday. A standard loaf (lechem shachor) will well for NIS 4.46.

**An Arab concealing a knife was apprehended at the IDF’s Beka’ot Checkpoint in the Jordan Valley.

**Lebanese army officials reported finding four Katyusha rockets ready for launch against Israel.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron apprehended 15 suspects on Tuesday night.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)