Motzei Rosh Hashanah News Roundup from Eretz Yisrael

yw_israel.jpg*A soldier was lightly injured over Yomtov as a result of the accidental discharge of a weapon on an IDF base. He was transported to Soroka Hospital in Beersheva.

*Premier-designate Livni and Labor Party leader Barak met to discuss coalition efforts over Rosh Hashanah.

*An EMT who responded with an MDA ambulance to his wife in labor delivered their boy at Ariel Jct. in Shomron. Both mother and son are reportedly doing fine; they were transported to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah.

*A 30-year-old male hang gliding smashed into a roof of a Sderot Yam community. He later died of his massive injuries in Hillel Yafeh Hospital in Chadera.

*UK: Police arrested 64-year-old Holocaust denier Gerald Fredrick Toben, acting on a German arrest warrant. He was taken into custody upon landing in Heathrow Airport.

*Dir Spiegel reports Hizbullah sent a document to the Lebanese government dated 30 September citing areas off limits to Lebanese military aircraft. Hizbullah recently downed a Lebanese military chopper.

*Hizbullah has issued a travel advisory to its senior commanders to stay out of Syria following last week�s bomb attack that claimed at least 17 lives.

*In his Id el-Fitr address, Iran�s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assured the crowd of holiday participants that Iran stands firmly behind Hamas� Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah and together, the defeat of the Zionists is ensured.

(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)

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