Tuesday Night:

An avreich was stabbed and lightly wounded in a shul on Chozeh M’Lublin Street in Betar Illit. Ichud Hatzalah treated the victim. Police responded. No additional details are available.

09:30:

US Defense Secretary Hagel scheduled to visit Israel in the coming days, his first visit since assuming his current senior government post.

11:25:

PM Netanyahu confers with Defense Minister Ya’alon following the rocket attacks into Eilat earlier this morning.

11:32:

3,000 PA (Palestinian Authority) “security prisoners” in Israeli jails refused their meals today as they observe a hunger strike in observance of Palestinian Prisoner Day.

11:47:

Former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was appointed chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee.

11:50:

MK (Likud) Tzachi Hanegbi was appointed chairmen of the Knesset Committee.

11:55:

MK (Yisrael Beitenu) was appointed chairman of the Knesset Law Committee.

11:59:

MK (Bayit Yehudi) Nissim Slomiansky was appointed chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)