Following yesterday\'s murder of Idit Mizrachi, two similar attempts were made today on the roads of Binyamin. A Talmon resident was shot upon as he drove along the N\'vei Tzuf-Ateret road; bullets hit his car, but he was unhurt. Similarly, an army vehicle was fired at near Bitouniya; soldiers returned fire.
A bomb exploded in Jerusalem this afternoon - the second such incident there in a week. Today\'s explosive, near Damascus Gate, caused no injuries. Despite its location in an area frequented almost exclusively by Arabs, police suspect that the device was constructed by the same terrorist elements who built the bomb that exploded on Friday near Jaffa Gate - injuring two tourists - and that both were designed to harm Jews.
Three Palestinians were arrested today after they threw a grenade at a building in Mishor Adumim, south of Jericho. Three policemen were injured during the arrest; they found additional grenades in the suspects\' car. An explosive placed on the train tracks between Haifa and Tel Aviv was detonated safely, but train service there has been halted.
Jerusalem Magistrates Court Judge Noam Solberg was the target of four rounds of gunfire last night as he traveled south of the Tunnels Highway to his home in Gush Etzion. He was unhurt, but reported to the local security officials that the bullets missed his car by only \"a few centimeters.\"
The town of Bat Hefer, just northwest of the PA city of Tul Karem and east of Netanya, was again the target of shooting last night, and no less than six houses were damaged. The residents ask that the wall separating them from Tul Karem be lengthened, and some have threatened to return fire towards the terrorists if the army does not put a stop to the shooting. Bat Hefer\'s Mayor Nachum Itzkovitch told Arutz-7 today that the firing went on last night for over a half-hour: \"It was much worse than previous attacks that we have experienced. The IDF returned fire only after a half-hour, which gives us a very uncomfortable feeling. Their explanation was that they had forces in the field, whom they had to ensure would not be caught in crossfire. I accept this, but still I feel that the army should have responded at once with strong retaliatory fire.\"
Itzkovitch said that his town of some 5,200 people is \"a fine place to live, but people are going through very hard times with these attacks - anxieties among the children, and the like…\" (Another resident was much more vehement on this point: \"Our children haven\'t slept for months!\" he told Israel Radio.) When asked what he would like the army to do, Itzkovitch said, \"We propose a plan, with no political implications, that will separate us from a security standpoint from the Arab areas. We suffer not only from these attacks, but also from Arabs sneaking in and stealing. For instance, a few weeks ago some Palestinians came in, stole a tractor from nearby Kibbutz Bachan, and beat up some of our workers. There should be a permanent army force between them and us. This won\'t solve everything, but it will provide at least a partial solution…\"
A bomb exploded in Jerusalem this afternoon - the second such incident there in a week. Today\'s explosive, near Damascus Gate, caused no injuries. Despite its location in an area frequented almost exclusively by Arabs, police suspect that the device was constructed by the same terrorist elements who built the bomb that exploded on Friday near Jaffa Gate - injuring two tourists - and that both were designed to harm Jews.
Three Palestinians were arrested today after they threw a grenade at a building in Mishor Adumim, south of Jericho. Three policemen were injured during the arrest; they found additional grenades in the suspects\' car. An explosive placed on the train tracks between Haifa and Tel Aviv was detonated safely, but train service there has been halted.
Jerusalem Magistrates Court Judge Noam Solberg was the target of four rounds of gunfire last night as he traveled south of the Tunnels Highway to his home in Gush Etzion. He was unhurt, but reported to the local security officials that the bullets missed his car by only \"a few centimeters.\"
The town of Bat Hefer, just northwest of the PA city of Tul Karem and east of Netanya, was again the target of shooting last night, and no less than six houses were damaged. The residents ask that the wall separating them from Tul Karem be lengthened, and some have threatened to return fire towards the terrorists if the army does not put a stop to the shooting. Bat Hefer\'s Mayor Nachum Itzkovitch told Arutz-7 today that the firing went on last night for over a half-hour: \"It was much worse than previous attacks that we have experienced. The IDF returned fire only after a half-hour, which gives us a very uncomfortable feeling. Their explanation was that they had forces in the field, whom they had to ensure would not be caught in crossfire. I accept this, but still I feel that the army should have responded at once with strong retaliatory fire.\"
Itzkovitch said that his town of some 5,200 people is \"a fine place to live, but people are going through very hard times with these attacks - anxieties among the children, and the like…\" (Another resident was much more vehement on this point: \"Our children haven\'t slept for months!\" he told Israel Radio.) When asked what he would like the army to do, Itzkovitch said, \"We propose a plan, with no political implications, that will separate us from a security standpoint from the Arab areas. We suffer not only from these attacks, but also from Arabs sneaking in and stealing. For instance, a few weeks ago some Palestinians came in, stole a tractor from nearby Kibbutz Bachan, and beat up some of our workers. There should be a permanent army force between them and us. This won\'t solve everything, but it will provide at least a partial solution…\"