Iran has reportedly permitted access to Facebook again.
**Three more Israelis were hospitalized on Tuesday, suspected of having swine flu. One of the three is a flight attendant.
** Sudan�s defense minister announced on Tuesday that 119 people were killed in the Israeli air strike targeting a weapons supply train in January.
**Rock attacks against Israeli vehicles in the Tekoa area of eastern Gush Etzion on Tuesday afternoon. No injuries were reported.
**Japan: one of the yeshiva bochrim imprisoned has completed all of Mishna Brurah and hopes to make a siyum. The bochrim are permitted books and reading materials and it appears much of their time is spent learning.
**The Jerusalem-based Eida Chareidis announced on Tuesday it plans to exhibit formidable opposition to Jerusalem City Hall�s plans to open parking lots to accommodate drivers on Shabbos, even though the lots will be operated by non-Jews. The Eida feels the move encourages chilul Shabbos and further diminishes the Shabbos atmosphere in the Holy City.
**IDF soldiers involved in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron apprehended six suspects.
**The owner of a lottery booth in the N�vei Sha�anan area Haifa was robbed of NIS 7,000 as he closed his business on Tuesday night.
**Many chareidi passengers in Ashdod are boycotting Egged�s 85 bus since it now displays adverts on a screen mounted in buses. Some rabbanim have called for a boycott. Belze rabbonim in the city have given chassidim permission to continue on the bus, awaiting a decision from the Rebbe Shlita.
**Brisk Yerushalayim has begun sending letters to homes of students from abroad asking $500 monthly tuition due to the institution�s difficult financial situation. To date, no tuition was charged.
**Two Arabs armed with knives were taken into custody on Tuesday night at a checkpoint near Atarot in N. Jerusalem.
(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)
