Petach Tikvah city employees returning to work as city promises to back down from planned cuts.

**Bank Discount employees will strike certain branches on Thursday, including Jerusalem.

**Yitzhar: Youths clashed with soldiers on Wednesday evening. Soldiers were preparing for an exercise but it appears youths thought they were preparing to dismantle homes, leading to clashes. At least one soldier was lightly injured.

**Egyptians report apprehending 3.5 tons of explosives in Sinai intended for Hamas-controlled Gaza.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)