In his annual report released on Monday evening, State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss accused Minister of National Infrastructure, Binyamin (Fouad) Ben-Eliezer, of appointing 100 associates to positions in the Electric Company.   

--State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss has accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of using his influence as Minister of Trade, Industry, and Labor to obtain NIS 7.67 million in grants for an associate between 2000 and 2005.

--The Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha) called the murder of Ido Zoldan of Shavei Shomron Israel's "reward" for agreeing earlier in the day to release 441 more Arab terrorists from prison.

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Kuwait, for the first time, has publicly acknowledged that Arab countries may go to war against Iran. 

--The number of rocket attacks on Israel so far this month is more than double the number recorded immediately after the destruction of Jewish communities in the Gaza region and the withdrawal of the IDF.  

--The IDF Home Front Command has informed the Upper Galilee Regional Council that despite government promises of NIS 2 billion to rehabilitate the north following the war in Lebanon, it does not have the funds needed to provide protection for border towns.  

--Among America’s fears concerning Iran is the possibility that Tehran possesses biological weapons developed by North Korea and Syria.