The Knesset Finance Committee has approved a one-year extension for the 20% tax break enjoyed by residents of Hamas-controlled Gaza.

** Minister of Interior Eli Yishai is calling on all sides in Beit Shemesh to ‘climb down from their high trees’ and work things out.

** A report submitted by the National Council for the Child to President Shimon Peres indicates that one out of every three Israeli children is poor.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)