IDF soldiers on Monday afternoon opened fire at terrorists placing a bomb near the border fence in the area of Kibbutz Nirim.

**Police Sergeant-Major Yehoshua Sofer HY”D, murdered in the Monday morning terror attack, was laid to rest at 5:30pm in Beersheva. The 39-year-old victim was scheduled to get married in the coming weeks.

**11 fire apparatus were reportedly fighting a working forest fire in the Ein Kerem area of Yerushalayim on Monday afternoon.

**Minister of Public Security Yitzchak Aharonovich, who is abroad, spoke with Yosef Sofer, the father of the victim of the Monday morning terror attack, Sgt-Major Yehoshua Sofer HY”D.

**A group calling itself the Freedom Flotilla Martyrs claimed responsibility for the Monday morning fatal shooting attack in the S. Chevron Hills area. One policeman was killed and three wounded in the shooting attack.

**Polish authorities are expected to announce a decision regarding the extradition of suspected Mossad agent Uri Brodsky within a month.

**An explosive device was detonated against IDF soldiers patrolling along the S. Gaza border fence. No injuries.

**Quartet Mideast envoy Tony Blair announces a relaxation of the Gaza embargo will be announced in the coming days.

**Protest outside a Geula show of appliances due to Electra boycott. Event organizer Levine insists all Electra products were removed last night when the Eida announced the boycott.

**Protest announced to begin at 7:00pm at Kikar Shabbat to Shivtei Yisrael Street to decry police spraying HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch Shlita with teargas at Jaffa excavations site.

**Tel Aviv detectives on Monday arrested a 55-y/o Ashdod resident after finding three stolen Sifrei Torah taken from a Yahud shul last month in his home.

**Sporadic protests and setting garbage bins ablaze in the Geula area, Yoel Street and from a Satmar Beis Medrash towards Bar Ilan Street.

**PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) announced Israel’s flotilla probe does not comply with demands set forth by the United Nations.

**3 chareidim were arrested in Jaffa protests against chilul kevarim on Monday afternoon.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)