� IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terrorism operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron arrested 9 suspects during the night.

� The IDF Homefront Command is conducting a preparedness exercise in Ashkelon today and tomorrow.

� Four people are being treated for light smoke inhalation from a fire that broke out in Bat Yam.

� A Syrian national with moderate injuries has been brought to Ziff Hospital in Tzfas.

� A 30-year-old male was arrested after posting on Facebook �I dreamed that I killed Arab babies�.

� Following a week of almost daily underworld assassinations, including one on Shabbos in the middle of Tel Aviv, the state comptroller is calling on agencies to get the situation under control, citing �an atmosphere of terrorism exists� and �people are scared to leave their homes�.

� HaGaon Rav Shlomo Dichovsky, who runs the Chief Rabbinate batei din, announced the situation is �catastrophic� due to a critical shortage of dayanim.

� An Eritrean asylum-seeker attacked a bus driver on a line traveling from Ashdod to Tel Aviv.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)