Israeli forces were successful in capturing a Palestinian terror cell operating in the Shechem (Nablus) area that planned to kidnap an Israeli citizen and hold him in exchange for Palestinian terrorists incarcerated in Israeli prisons.
A teenage Palestinian terrorist who tried stabbing a security guard at a checkpoint did not succeed in his deadly mission and was taken in for questioning.
After three attempted stabbing attacks in one day, a fourth terrorist succeeded in murdering an innocent woman, this time in her own home. Police are searching for the assailant, who fled the scene.
Just two weeks after Joseph's Tomb was set ablaze by Palestinian protesters, Jewish workers spent an entire night repairing the damage and restoring the holy site.
2700 years after they were exiled from Israel, the Bnei Menashe (sons of Menashe) have come to Shechem to visit the tomb of their great ancestors Menashe and Yosef.