� Former Meretz Leader and cabinet minister Shulamit Aloni has died at the age of 85.

� The wife of Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Tanya Edelstein z�l, was niftar early erev Shabbos after a difficult illness. She was 63.

� The exterminator who worked in the Gross family home in Givat Mordechai was released to house arrested on erev Shabbos.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)