After meeting Assad, Russian FM offered Olmert to hold an Annapolis-like peace show in Moscow. Russia bullies Israel on behalf of its client Syria. Russian FM refused to confront Syria on arms shipments to Hezbollah.

Israeli Water Authority warns that water level in Israel’s all three aquifers will fall below the red line this year, meaning that fresh water will mix with salt water or other pollutants, making it unusable.
The Water Authority demands further cuts of water supplies to Israeli farmers, draconian rates for non-essential use which includes private gardens, and Spartan use of water by Jewish families.
Israel continues uninterrupted supply of water to Gaza and the Palestinian Authority, and Jordan pumps water from the Jordan River at will.

IDF delegation visited New Mexico test range for Skyguard laser defense systems. During the test firings, the Skyguard intercepted only 8 out of 36 rockets. Israel develops her own anti-rocket Iron Dome defense system, more reliable than lasers are so far, but hyper-expensive as it uses interceptor rockets.

The national bank of Israel will be buying $25 mil daily to increase its reserves by $10 bn, a considerable amount for small Israel. The bank’s move is a boom to importers and complete waste to Israeli taxpayers: when the entire world dumps US dollars, Bank of Israel accumulates that highly inflationary currency.

a family member wounded. Ortez family in Ariel fished for prospective Jewish converts, which is a capital offense in Judaism.

US vice president Dick spent two days with his friends in Saudi Arabia, flew to Jerusalem to attend Christian festivities, and instructed Olmert to renew peace talks with the Palestinians.

while playing with his illegal gun, in Umm al Fahm.

halt the settlements.
Russians, of course, did not blockade Chechnya but merely murdered a hundred thousand people there. Russians, certainly, do not engage in settlement activity, but just invade the countries they like.