A dummy explosive device was detonated without injury by bomb-demolition experts near Luban a-Sharqiya, north of Yishuv Eli in Shomron.

**Kadima leader Tzipi Livni opposes early party primaries.

**PM Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that even after reaching a final status agreement with the PA, Israel must maintain a presence in Yehuda and Shomron.

**Visiting the Chief Rabbinate schita operation in Argentina this week, Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger Shlita stated the schita of the Chief Rabbinate is not on a lower level than the Badatzim.

**400kg of stolen avocadoes were uncovered in a vehicle near Nahariya. An Arab male was detained and is being questioned in the theft.

**Cold temperatures are expected to continue today accompanied by thundershowers in the north and center.

**A Sefer Torah was donated anonymously to the shul in Yitzhar in memory of the 8 students HY”D murdered in the Merkaz HaRav terror attack in 2008.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terrorism operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron apprehended 9 suspects on Wednesday night.

**Police in custody, charged with beating an Arab have not admitted to their guilt and have not turned on one another. The state is still seeking to cut a deal with one of them, hoping they will become a state witness.

**IDF Homefront siren testing at noon in the Carmel Shore area, including Zichron Yaakov, Caesarea, Ohr Akiva, Binyamina, Atlit and surrounding areas.

**a 12-y/o was killed in an MVA in Sinjel, a PA village in the Gush Shilo area. IDF officials are investigating.

**Water service has been restored to southern area residents.

**A 60-y/o male was struck and seriously injured by a bus on Jabotinsky St. in Petach Tikvah during the morning rush hour. He died in Beilinson Hospital.

**A foreign worker, employed as a caretaker for an 83-y/o Netivot resident was arrested and suspected of abuse. The family of the patient installed a camera in the home without the caretaker’s knowledge after fearing their father was being abused.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)