Jerusalem Councilman Shlomo Stern is working to enlist chareidi municipal inspectors to join the city’s workforce.

**One man drowned in an Aravah nachal on Monday afternoon and was washed into the Jordan River.

**An Israeli sustained light injuries in a Monday afternoon rock-throwing attack near Na’alin.

**A hiker rescued by the air force on Monday morning died on the way to the hospital. A second survived and the search continues for a third.

**A 58/y/o woman, a cancer patient, died of swine flu in Tel Hashomer Hospital on Monday.

**5:10PM: Bomb demolition experts operating north of Shechem on what appears to be an explosive device. (The suspect item was not a bomb officials reported later in the evening).

**Trees and poles have been uprooted and knocked down due to strong rains and winds in Eilat.

**A police volunteer sustained a fall while operating at a scene between Katzir and Shaked late Monday afternoon. His condition is listed as serious.

**Route 40 was shut near S’dei Boker in the south due to heavy flooding late Monday afternoon.

**A Petach Tikvah court extended the remand of four suspects arrested in Yitzhar on Monday. They are being held in detention for an additional seven days.

**Arab MK Barakeh, who is scheduled to take part in Knesset delegation to Auschwitz, received a threatening letter containing a swastika. The letter was passed to Knesset security.

**German Chancellor Merkel is calling for increased sanctions against Iran.

**Monday evening: Train service halted south of Kiryat Malachi.

**Monday evening: 4 people are missing after a truck flipped into a wadi in Moshav Chetzva.

**An Arab with a knife in his tool case was taken into custody by soldiers at a Shechem area checkpoint on Monday afternoon.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)