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Sunday Morning News Briefs from Eretz Yisrael


1 person was killed and 14 injured in a MVA at Megiddo Jct. in the north on Sunday morning. Some of the injured are in serious and moderate condition.
 
**An MDA delegation will be leaving Israel for Haiti on Sunday, traveling to the Dominican Republic and from there, to the earthquake stricken area.
 
**IDF soldiers involved in counter-terrorism operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron apprehended a suspect in the PA-occupied Bet Lechem area.
 
**Pope Benedict XVI will be visiting Rome’s Central Synagogue on Sunday despite objections from some due to the Church’s decision to grant sainthood to Pius XII.
 
**Meretz MK Nissan Horowitz is calling on the Ministerial Legislative Committee not to push along the new Chametz Bill intended to reverse last year’s Jerusalem court decision permitting the sale of chametz in the capital on Pessach.
 
**Reports blame a threat of a “Gaza type embargo” on PA areas in Yehuda and Shomron was made by Shin Bet Director Diskin to PA leader Abu Mazen, a Dichter was seeking to compel him to delay a UN vote on the Goldstone Report.
 
**Foreign Ministry officials confirm a 29-y/o Israeli national, whose body was found in a suitcase, was murdered in Canada. A suspect is in custody. His name is not being released. Canadian police are investigating.
 
**Rabbi David Rosen, who holds the title of head of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, blasts the Chief Rabbinate of Israel for its unacceptable treatment of the Vatican over the past 15 years.
 
**Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon is warning if Turkey continues airing anti-Semitic TV programs, the ministry may expel the Turkish Ambassador to Israel.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)



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