Rock-throwing attacks during the night at Wadi Charamiya in Shomron, between Ofrah and Shilo. No injuries. A number of vehicles were damaged.

** The National Security Council Counter Terrorism Bureau underscores travel alert for Sinai in light of intelligence warnings of planned attack against Israelis.

** Investigators report negligence appears to have been the cause of fatal scaffolding crash at Mt. Herzl last week during Memorial Day rehearsals.

** Taiwan to buy 4 Israel Navy warships constructed in the 1980s to improve its naval fleet.

** 300 residents of the Ivory Coast who received deportation orders from Israel protested against the planned expulsion in Tel Aviv on Sunday morning. They are set for deportation at month�s end but they maintain the precarious situation in their country makes their return a life-threatening situation & are seeking to remain in Israel.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)