Authorities on Monday morning evacuated a number of caravan structures, an outpost near Elon Moreh in Shomron called Nachlat Yosef. After authorities left the area, youths began rebuilding the structures.

**Addressing the Israel Bar Association in Eilat, Attorney General Mazuz stated suspected criminals should not be appointed to senior public posts, stating Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman never should have been made foreign minister. 

**Air France has released a statement that none of the passengers on ill-fated flight 447 from Rio to Paris were making their way to Israel.

**During a Knesset Absorption Committee session on Sunday, MK (Yahadut HaTorah) R’ Moshe Gafne called Israel’s Reform Jews “Israel Haters”, warning of the de facto recognition of Reform conversions as legitimate.

**The US dollar dropped to 3.887 against the NIS.

**A 54-year-old man who arrived at a Petach Tikvah bank to pick up his inheritance from his father collapsed and was eventually pronounced dead on the scene by EMS personnel.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)