IDF Homefront command siren testing will take place on Thursday beginning at 5:00pm. Sirens will be heard in Mevassret Tzion, Kiryat Yearim and Beit Shemesh.

**Two youths, 12 and 14, were arrested and are suspected of stealing computers and other equipment from a Holon school(s) during Chanukah vacation.

**The IDF Homefront Command is holding training exercises in the Eilat and Negev areas on Wednesday.

**Border police operating in the past 24 hours rounded up 206 PA residents found illegally inside Green Line Israel. 

**Minister of Religious Services (Shas) met on Tuesday with HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen Shlita, a member of the Shas Council of Torah Sages and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Porat Yosef.

**Minister of Housing (Shas) Atias met on Tuesday night with the Admor of Karlin-Stolin in Yerushalayim.

**The son of the Admor M’Boyan zt”l, R’ Yisrael Friedman z”l was niftar in the United States. The body is expected to land in Eretz Yisrael on Thursday. He was niftar on his 95th birthday. A hachnasas sefer Torah scheduled in the Boyan kehillah in Yerushalayim for today has been postponed.

**A 32-y/o Jewish male was murdered in Moscow on Tuesday, reportedly a criminal homicide, not terror. Zaka Moscow officials are dealing with the incident, Katzar reports. 

**The IDF Homefront Command will be holding a training exercise in the Migdal Ha’emek and Tiveria area today, beginning at 7:00am. MDA and other agencies will be taking part in the training event as well.

**The Admor of Toldos Aaron is traveling to Arad today for a three-week rest.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terrorism operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron apprehended six suspects.

** 2 chareidim were reportedly victims of an anti-Semitic attack in Russia and required hospitalization. No more at this time.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)