The Central District Court arrested until completion of legal proceedings a resident of Samaria indicted for a hate crime against Palestinian Authority Arabs in the Arab town of Sarta. At the time of the alleged crime, the suspect was 17 years old.The Supreme Court rejected an appeal submitted against the Central District Court's decision.

Political commentators puzzled by Likud's obsession with attacking Yamina when other parties bear greater blame for coalition impasse.

Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett said Likud party efforts to smear him and his party were falling short and that the Israeli public was fed up with the political deadlock in the country during a press briefing tonight (Wed).

Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) spoke at the Knesset plenum marking Herzl Day, urging the Knesset's parties to cooperate with each other."The path of personal boycotts was not [Theodore] Herzl's path," Akunis said, adding that "in the spirit of his Zionist dream," all of the Zionist groups, which had "deep and existential" differences between themselves, "knew how to overcome it for the sake of the higher goal of founding the State.""From here, today, I call in the name of the Israeli government and in the name of my movement, the Likud, which continues Herzl's vision, In all the Zionist forces to join together at this time when the State of Israel is being tested, for the sake of our country's future."

Israel's Mossad is increasingly active In the Iran-Azerbaijan border - a fact which is causing growing concern in Tehran.

Payment for unpaid leave to be cut 10% due to drop in unemployment

A 27-year-old motorcyclist suffered moderate injuries in a road accident In Derech Harakevet in Netanya.Magen David Adom paramedics transferred him to Laniado Hospital, with injuries to his limbs.

Dr. Noa Rosenfeld, who heads the PICU at Assuta Ashdod, said, "This is a side effect of the increase in importing children's toys from China."