YWN Eretz Yisrael Evening News Roundup � 12/18/08

SECURITY/DEFENSE:

*13:09: A Kassam rocket landed near Kibbutz Sa�ad without causing injuries.

*13:32: PA reports the IAF targeted a Kassam launcher.

*15:05: Rockets fell in an open area near Kibbutz Nachal Oz. No injuries.

*15:31: Kassam rockets landed inside northern Hamas-controlled Gaza.

*16:05: The air force targeted rocket launchers.

*16:25: Mortar shells land in southern Israel. No injuries reported.

*16:26: Two more rockets land in an open area in the Eshkol region. No injuries. In an earlier attack, buildings were damaged in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. No injuries.

POLITICS, DOMESTIC & MORE:

*Bayit Yehuda Knesset list: Rabbi Dr. Daniel Hershkowitz, MK Zevulun Orlev, MK Uri Ariel, Shuli Me�ulam, Uri Orbach. The big losers are MKs Rabbi Benny Elon and Tzvi Hendel, who were not elected to realistic slots on the party lineup.

*The tachograph from the ill-fated bus from the Eilat crash this week tells nothing. There was no recording disc inside. The driver, who was lightly injured, was released on Thursday from Beilinson Hospital.

*During the major Israel Police exercise in the Tzeilim base on Thursday, a police vehicle flipped and three people were injured, one seriously, one moderately and three lightly.

(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)

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