Device was likely planted due to criminal, not nationalist, motives, report says.

An Australian athlete collapsed and lost consciousness during a soccer match in Netanya as part of the Maccabiah competition. The MDA team that was at the scene treated him with a defibrillator and performed CPR In him. The soccer player regained consciousness but still required hospitalization in a cardio ward.

Clashes break out between IDF soldiers and Arabs in Shechem (Nablus). No Israelis injured, Palestinian Arabs report Ine dead.

Palestinian Arabs reported that two terrorists were killed in an exchange of gunfire with IDF soldiers in Shechem overnight Saturday. In addition, nine people were injured, including Ine in critical condition.

Starting this morning, the Haifa-Tel Aviv rail line, which transports about 40,000 passengers every day, will be closed. As a result, unusually heavy traffic is expected In Route 2, Route 4, and Route 6.Trains from the north are expected to stop at Binyamina station, and trains from the south will stop at Netanya station. Shuttles will operate between these stations. Shuttle service will be increased between Binyamina and Beit Yehoshua, between the central station in Haifa and Savidor station in Tel Aviv, between Haifa station and the central station in Tel Aviv, and between Binyamina, Pardes Hana and Hadera to Tel Aviv.The line will be closed until Saturday night.

Bunker where Jewish Fighting Organization leader Mordechai Anielewicz was killed fighting the Nazis in 1943 uncovered.

The highway patrol department of the Israel Police registered 3,254 tickets over the weekend against drivers committing a variety of life-threatening offenses.

Iranian media reports the death of a missile engineer and member of the Revolutionary Guards named Saeed Samardar Mutalak in the city of Shiraz in the south of Iran.