IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terrorism operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron arrested five suspects on Tuesday night.

**Israeli Ambassador to Washington Dr. Michael Oren released statements playing down quotes attributed to him, calling the diplomatic row between Israel and the USA an “unprecedented crisis”.

**Har Habayis was opened to visitors by police on Wednesday morning.

**The EU’s foreign minister expected to land in Israel on Wednesday. She is also stopping in Egypt, Jordan and meeting with PA officials.

**IDF Sgt. Dan Snir z”l, 20, who was critically injured in a vehicular collision near Mishur Adumim last week, died of his injuries in hospital.

**Baruch Mazel has sent a letter to Israeli super model Bar Refaeli urging her not to marry Leonardo DiCaprio, a non-Jew.

**IDF Homefront Command officials will be testing air raid sirens in many areas of Jerusalem, Yehuda and Shomron on Wednesday. 90 second sirens will sound in a number of communities, Maale Adumim, Kiryat Arba, Efrat, Modi’in Illit, Emanuel and Har Chevron communities to name a few.

**A man in his 40s died after falling into a sewer in Haifa.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)