IDF Homefront command siren testing will take place on Thursday beginning at 5:00pm. Sirens will be heard in Mevassret Tzion, Kiryat Yearim and Beit Shemesh.

**Two youths, 12 and 14, were arrested and are suspected of stealing computers and other equipment from a Holon school(s) during Chanukah vacation.

**The IDF Homefront Command is holding training exercises in the Eilat and Negev areas on Wednesday.

**Border police operating in the past 24 hours rounded up 206 PA residents found illegally inside Green Line Israel.�

**Minister of Religious Services (Shas) met on Tuesday with HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen Shlita, a member of the Shas Council of Torah Sages and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Porat Yosef.

**Minister of Housing (Shas) Atias met on Tuesday night with the Admor of Karlin-Stolin in Yerushalayim.

**The son of the Admor M�Boyan zt�l, R� Yisrael Friedman z�l was niftar in the United States. The body is expected to land in Eretz Yisrael on Thursday. He was niftar on his 95th birthday. A hachnasas sefer Torah scheduled in the Boyan kehillah in Yerushalayim for today has been postponed.

**A 32-y/o Jewish male was murdered in Moscow on Tuesday, reportedly a criminal homicide, not terror. Zaka Moscow officials are dealing with the incident, Katzar reports.�

**The IDF Homefront Command will be holding a training exercise in the Migdal Ha�emek and Tiveria area today, beginning at 7:00am. MDA and other agencies will be taking part in the training event as well.

**The Admor of Toldos Aaron is traveling to Arad today for a three-week rest.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terrorism operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron apprehended six suspects.

** 2 chareidim were reportedly victims of an anti-Semitic attack in Russia and required hospitalization. No more at this time.

(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)