Device was likely planted due to criminal, not nationalist, motives, report says.

Palestinian Arabs reported that two terrorists were killed in an exchange of gunfire with IDF soldiers in Shechem overnight Saturday. In addition, nine people were injured, including Ine in critical condition.

Bunker where Jewish Fighting Organization leader Mordechai Anielewicz was killed fighting the Nazis in 1943 uncovered.

Iranian media reports the death of a missile engineer and member of the Revolutionary Guards named Saeed Samardar Mutalak in the city of Shiraz in the south of Iran.

The Central District Court sentenced Roman Agronov to 17 years in prison after convicting him based In his confession of aiding and abetting murder and conspiracy to murder for his part in the murder of Anton Roman. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay NIS 35,000 in compensation. After negotiations, the parties reached a settlement in which an amended indictment was filed against Agronov. According to the revised indictment, Agronov and several accomplices are accused of helping to murder a police agent.

An Australian athlete collapsed and lost consciousness during a soccer match in Netanya as part of the Maccabiah competition. The MDA team that was at the scene treated him with a defibrillator and performed CPR In him. The soccer player regained consciousness but still required hospitalization in a cardio ward.

The Rabbi of the Israeli kidnapped in Brazil describes the tense hours leading to the desperately awaited news that he was alive and well.

Clashes break out between IDF soldiers and Arabs in Shechem (Nablus). No Israelis injured, Palestinian Arabs report Ine dead.