A female soldier was moderately injured in a head-on MVA in Ramat HaSharon on Thursday morning.

**1:30PM – 3 mortar shells fired from Gaza landed in an open area near Kibbutz Erez. No injuries reported.

**A 70-y/o Upper Nazareth man is in moderate-to-serious condition in Ha’emek Hospital after being stabbed in the throat area. A 23-y/o suspect is in custody. The motive for the attack is unclear, police report.

**Two 2-y/o Ramat HaNegev area toddlers were stung by a yellow scorpion on Thursday afternoon. They are reported in good condition in Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva.

**Barzilai Hospital officials in Ashkelon call on the tzibur to only come to the facility in case of emergency until 3pm Thursday as a major training event simulating a chemical weapon attack is taking place. Many of the hospitals outpatient clinics are closed as a result.

**Showers were reported in the Carmel and Haifa areas on Thursday morning.

**A motorist was moderately injured in a MVA on Route 443 near the Dor gas station. Rescue workers had to extricate the injured man from the vehicle.

**Hizbullah released a statement that it will not sit with its hands folded should Israel stop the Lebanese flotillas. It will view the passengers on board the vessel captive Lebanese prisoners.

**A M-16 assault rifle was found in a sewage pit in the Jewarish area of Ramle. A suspect was taken into custody.

**A security guard was hit by a tractor and moderately injured on Thursday morning near the Jerusalem border fence. He was transported to Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

**A 65-y/o woman was struck by a vehicle and seriously injured on Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terrorism operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron apprehended four suspects on Wednesday night.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)