Sunday Morning News Updates from Eretz Yisrael

Egypt on Saturday opened the Rafiach Crossing for three days.

**30 left-wing Israelis and Arabs were arrested for violating an IDF ban on their entering the Gush Etzion community of Bat Ayin on Shabbos.

**Police have arrested a 20-year-old Ramat Gan resident believed responsible for numerous false calls to the Police 100 dispatcher as well as the MDA 101 dispatcher. He was remanded in the Tel Aviv Magistrate�s Court on Sunday morning. He denies the allegations leveled against him.

**A wanted terrorist suspect was taken into custody by IDF forces near Kalkilye.

**A 23-year-old Israeli male, a resident of Ashdod, was shot in his back outside a club in Bogota, the capital of Columbia. Consular officials are monitoring his condition, which is listed as serious, but not life-threatening. The wound is near a kidney.

11:30am: 15 people arrested in shabbos protests were released from custody. The remainder is being arraigned in the Jerusalem Magistrate�s Court.

**A fire was brought under control without injuries in a Golan Heights army base on Sunday morning.

**The aron of singer Jo Amar z�l will arrive in Eretz Yisrael on Sunday. Kvura is scheduled for Monday at 5pm in Moshav Yad Rambam near Ramle, Israel Radio reports. The 79-year-old singer was niftar in NYC.

**Tonight is the 17th yahrzeit of the Lev simcha (Rav Simcha Bunim Alter) zt�l.

**Another 49 cases of swine flu are reported in Israel.

**Kfar Saba police have made an arrest in the investigation into last month�s break-in into the Kfar Saba home of the family of MIA IAF navigator Major Ron Arad.

**Moshe (Morris) Talansky is in Israel and is expected to give testimony on Sunday.

(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)

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