Kfar Saba court extended for another month detention of Tzviyah Sariel for “attacking” the Arabs who tried to enter their settlement for illegal activity. According to the Arab’s testimony, Tzviyah tried to take away his cane.
The brave girl refuses recognizing the Hellenistic court’s jurisdiction, and spent many days in solitary confinement.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad blew an IDF vehicle on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, apparently with a mine. PIJ also engaged Israeli units arriving for the rescue operation in firefight.
One Jewish soldier killed, another seriously wounded.

Hamas officials met Egyptian intelligence in El Arish in Sinai.

or so he said to Ashkelon mayor. The government is not so resilient, and builds an immense underground complex for itself under Jerusalem hills connected by an underground road to Bein Gurion International Airport.

Defense Minister atheist Ehud Barak refused the draft exemption to all new Jewish religious schools. Barak’s action is merely symbolic, as the students would be nominally enrolled in the schools approved for exemption before.
At the same time, the IDF drives the religious Jews away by decidedly mixing them into non-religious environment instead of allowing them all-religious units. In truth, the army doesn’t want religious Jews as they are immune to peacenick indoctrination, merciless to Arabs, and won’t obey the government’s orders to uproot Jewish villages.

Amnesty, Oxfam and other leftist loonies proclaim the situation in Gaza is worst since 1967. That’s understandable: a burgeoning Palestinian population crowded on the patch of desert they cannot cultivate, and firing rockets at Israel predictably ended low.
80% of Gazans depend on UNRWA food aid. Only 10% of Gazans are employed in the private sector, and of them 70% had lost their jobs. Doesn’t sound like a nation ready for statehood.
Gazans pour 50,000 tons of raw waste in the sea daily.

Envisaging himself a minister of the Palestinian defense, Barak unveiled a revolutionary plan: the IDF will evacuate civilians from the Gaza City, and then attack the guerrillas there. Some technical issues remain, such as: what if the civilians, urged by Hamas, refuse to leave? what if the guerrillas leave along with them, leaving a ghost town?