5 border policemen were indicted for allegedly robbing Bedouins in the south.

**The Rehovot Magistrate’s Court sentenced a 26-y/o man to 16 months in prison for attacking his mother twice after she refused to give him money for alcohol and cigarettes.

**Former IDF major-generals, Giora Eiland and Yair Nave have announced their support for the Kadima Party petition opposing a bill permitting Israelis abroad taking part in Knesset elections.

**A 9-justice panel of the Supreme Court nullified a law permitting a remand hearing in which the suspect is not present, stating such a procedure denies the suspect’s basic rights.

**A man in his 50s was struck and seriously injured by a vehicle near the entrance of the Shomron community of Ariel. He was transported to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah.

**Lebanon: Investigators state last month’s crash of an Ethiopian Airline plane was definitely not the result of a bomb.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)