David Bedein

An Israeli Member of the Knesset Parliament (MK), Reserve General Efraim Eitam, who returned this weekend from a secret trip to Venezuela deeply troubled by the state of the Jewish people there, has called to have them brought to Israel.

Yesterday morning, once again, the inhabitants of the Israeli city of Sderot awoke to the call of the Color Red warning system. At approximately 6:30 a.m., Palestinians fired three Kassam rockets that landed near communities in the Shaar Hanegev.

Shaike Shaked, a farmer from the agricultural Moshav community of Netiv Haasara, just north of Gaza, gave his family clear instructions as to what to when they hear a siren that warns them that a mortar shell has been fired.

New difficulties have cropped up in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in preparation for the Annapolis conference. The Palestinians have made new, tough demands.

"Hamas' operational capabilities keep on improving all the time. Hamas is building a major military force in the Gaza Strip, and this is discernible in its deployment along the fence,"

Members of the Islamic terror cell who were arrested in Germany at the beginning of September had planned, among other things, to carry out a terror attack against the Israeli embassy in Berlin, reported the news weekly Focus.

The Israeli government did not expect to reach any agreement with the Palestinians at the summit and that that the "only thing that would happen there would be declarations,"

On Wednesday, an off duty IDF soldier from the Israeli Givati Infantry Brigade was badly injured and a civilian was lightly injured in a shooting attack on the trans-Samaria road near the entrance to Ariel.

The chairman of the "Citizens for Security of Sderot," Alon Davidi, called on the government, "to begin a large-scale military operation in Gaza and not to make do with a surgical operation."