News Brief03:53 AM

(IsraelNN.com) Knesset Member Jamal Zahalka (Balad, National Democratic Assembly) is to be questioned by police over a trip he made to Syria about two weeks ago. Former MK Muhammad Kana'an will also be questioned on Wednesday.
On Thursday, MKs Azmi Bishara and Wasil Taha, also both of the Balad party, will face police questioning over their recent trip to Syria. While guests of the Assad regime, Bishara and his colleagues expressed support for Syria and for Hizbullah terrorists in their respective activities against Israel.
 
--Both intelligence and operational failures led to the deaths of four Israeli military personnel when their ship was attacked by Hizbullah terrorists, according to an internal navy investigation. An anti-ship rocket scored a direct hit on the Hanit missile ship during Shabbat dinner.

--The Aminach company has sent a truck to the north to donate mattresses to children who have been in shelters for over one week, hoping the contribution will in some way make their compulsory stay in shelters less difficult.

--Likud chairman and Knesset opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu told 230 North American immigrants to Israel, "Aliyah is the answer to Hizbullah."

--American military strategists have questioned Israel's strategy in its retaliation against Hizbullah terrorist targets in Lebanon. The former head of the U.S. Army War College, Stephen Biddle, charged that Israel's bombing is aimed at pressuring "others into solving their problems for them." Another strategist, James Dobbins of the Rand Corp., stated that Israel's military targets "have no conceivable relationship to Hizbullah."