Violent protests and arrests continued on Jaffa’s Yeffet Street on Monday at the construction site where bones were found.

**An envelope containing white powder turned up at a Haifa post office on Monday evening. Police ordered the Shikmona branch closed after 3 employees began complaining of itching after coming in contact with the envelope.

**Sonic booms heard over Nahariya has IAF fighter planes carry out flying training exercises.

**Kol Chai: About 100 people protested outside the Israeli Embassy in London against exhuming the bones at Ashkelon.

**A 30-y/o male pedestrian was seriously injured when he was struck by a vehicle at Bat Hadar Jct. near Ashkelon. He was transported to Barzilai Hospital.

**A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a MVA on route 471 during the afternoon hours, transported to Tel Hashomer Hospital.

**The death toll on the nation’s roadways since January 1, 2010 reached 163 on Monday afternoon.

**Thousands take part in a Ramallah march in observance of Nakba Day.

**A horse carrier was struck by a truck at Nachshonim Jct on Highway 6 southbound. A woman was seriously injured and horses were killed.

**PA Prime Minister Salim Fayyad condemned Israel’s decision to bar Prof. Chomsky from entering the country at the Allenby Crossing.

**A rabid dog in Kibbutz Zivan in the Golan Heights bit and infected other animals. Health officials are taking appropriate precautions.

**While temperatures are expected to remain unseasonably warm, a sharp drop in temperatures is expected on Monday night, bringing some relief from the heat-wave.

**A male was arrested in Yerushalayim who is suspected of stealing the body found in a building on Jerusalem’s Rabbeinu Gershom St. a number of months ago, leading to a cat-and-mouse chase between police and chareidim in the Meah Shearim area. The suspect wished to prevent an autopsy on the body.

**Rain was reported in Herzliya during the afternoon hours.

**A 10-y/o boy sustained moderate injuries and his mother was lightly injured when they were stuck by a vehicle on Ashdod’s Palmach Street.

**Ashkelon: firefighters during the afternoon hours battled a major brush fire near an area IDF base.

**Bat Yam: Firefighters extricated a girl who head got stuck between rods of an iron fence. She was in good condition.

**Following extremely heavy rainfall and fearing a local river will overflow as a result, Auschwitz-Birkenau was closed to visitors.

** The shekel-euro exchange rate is down 1.4% to NIS 4.648/€, the lowest level against the shekel since December 2002.

**Today is Gilad Shalit’s 1,422nd day in captivity.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)