After Hamas offered ceasefire, Israel immediately launched a large incursion into Gaza involving tanks and aircraft. Arab guerrillas responded with heavy fire from automatic rifles, mortars and RPGs. One RPG hit Israeli tank, defying the tales of the IDF installing the impenetrable Trophy active defense system.
The Arab guerrillas engaged the Jewish forces professionally and courageously.
Supported by tanks and aircraft, IDF arrested several dozen Arab resistance members who refused to flee their homes.
The IDF operation, touted as targeting “terrorist infrastructure,” demolished a gas station in Gaza.

Putin’s associate Dmitry Medvedev is touted as Russia’s next president, an umbrella for Putin’s continued rule as prime minister. Medvedev maintains superficial contacts with Russian Jewish organizations, but shrinks from truly religious and nationalist organizations. Historically, some of the worst anti-Semites had Jewish roots.

Israeli Knesset discussed the procedure for appointing the head of the Knesset Committee for State Control. The office gives extensive access to security information. MKs, therefore, are trying to devise a procedure that would bar democratically elected Arab MKs from that office.