Wednesday Morning News Briefs from Eretz Yisrael

One winner has been announced in the NIS 40 million lottery, the first winner in two months. Had the ticket holder bought a �double� ticket, his earnings would have amounted to NIS 80 million.

**Two-wheeled motorized vehicles caused significant delays on Tel Aviv�s Derech Namir on Wednesday morning in protest against a planned increase of tens of percent for compulsory insurance for the two-wheeled vehicles.

**Al-Shark al-Awsat reports closing a deal for Gilad Shalit�s release is delayed due to an inability to agree on 125 terrorists appearing on Hamas� list. Hamas is refusing to Israeli demands that they be exiled abroad and not released to PA areas.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terror operations in Yehuda and Shomron arrested 5 suspects on Tuesday night.

**Today, 27 Elul is the yahrzeit of the �Sar Shalom� of Belz.

**Israel Insurance Association officials have signed a �heter iska� with rabbonim of the Badatz Eida Chareidis.

**DM Barak and IDF Chief Ashkenazi on Tuesday evening visited bereaved families of the Bedouin community, joining them in their post-Ramadan fast meal.

**Residents of the Chorsha outpost, which was ordered removed by the Supreme Court, demonstrated outside Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman�s home in the Gush Etzion community of El David, also known as Nokdim.

(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)

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