(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel / 11:00PM IL)

SECURITY/DEFENSE:

*IDF soldiers involved in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron on Sunday night arrested 25 suspects. No injuries were reported.

*Terrorists fired automatic weapons and shoulder-held rockets at civilian workers along the Gaza border on Monday. No injuries.

*Hotel security personnel overpowered a drunk male on Monday morning who entered the Warsaw Holiday Inn room of three Brazilian Jews who took part in the March of the Living. No injuries.

*IDF soldiers on Monday uncovered a ammunition storehouse in the Bet Lechem area.

*Another day of rocket and mortar shell attacks. Injuries reported. Some treated for shock/hysteria too. Property damage reported.

*A closure will be imposed on Yehuda and Shomron until after Independence Day preventing PA residents from crossing the Green Line.

POLITICS, DOMESTIC & MORE:

*State employed social workers on Monday stepped up sanctions, expanding the scope of their work stoppage.

*The bodies of five Israelis killed in a jeep accident in Bolivia last week landed in Israel early Monday morning.

*President Peres: Israel willing to make major concessions for peace with Syria.

*Jewish security prisoners barred from Memorial Day and Independence Day ceremonies.

*Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar Shlita working to reverse the decision of the Rabbinical Supreme Court regarding conversions performed by Rabbi Chaim Druckman.

*Military court on Monday ordered extended remand of three Kfir soldiers accused of abusing Arab taxi dispatcher in the Chevron Hills area.

*Rabbi Mazor Bahaineh takes the oath of office on Monday as a new Shas MK, replacing Rabbi Shlomo Benizri.

*MK Olmert and PA Chairman Abu Mazen met in PM’s Jerusalem residence on Monday afternoon.

*Arab media reports PA Chairman Abu Mazen may resign over frustration surrounding lack of progress in negotiations with Israel.

*Dr. Abdullah al-Bashir, personal physician to PA Chairman Abu Mazen released a statement that he is in good health. Statement followers last week’s cardiac catheterization performed on PA chairman.

*Man arrested during right-wing protest in Jerusalem on Monday after shouting “I am the next Yigal Amir. I will kill Ehud Olmert”.

*Official sources report significant progress on final border talks achieved in meeting between PM Olmert and PA Abu Mazen on Monday.

*PA: Two terrorists killed and five injured in collapse of Gazan weapons smuggling tunnel.

*Longtime Olmert colleague and confident attorney Uri Messer is negotiating with the prosecution about possibly becoming a state witness against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in ongoing classified investigation.