The owner of a neighborhood store in Gedera was brought Tuesday to the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court In suspicion of concealing millions of shekels in income.The suspect was released under restrictive conditions.

Political commentators puzzled by Likud's obsession with attacking Yamina when other parties bear greater blame for coalition impasse.

Naftali Bennett said that while all efforts are being made to form a right-wing coalition, PM Netanyahu has abandoned his responsibility to the national camp.

Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett said Likud party efforts to smear him and his party were falling short and that the Israeli public was fed up with the political deadlock in the country during a press briefing tonight (Wed).

Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) spoke at the Knesset plenum marking Herzl Day, urging the Knesset's parties to cooperate with each other."The path of personal boycotts was not [Theodore] Herzl's path," Akunis said, adding that "in the spirit of his Zionist dream," all of the Zionist groups, which had "deep and existential" differences between themselves, "knew how to overcome it for the sake of the higher goal of founding the State.""From here, today, I call in the name of the Israeli government and in the name of my movement, the Likud, which continues Herzl's vision, In all the Zionist forces to join together at this time when the State of Israel is being tested, for the sake of our country's future."

Israel's Mossad is increasingly active In the Iran-Azerbaijan border - a fact which is causing growing concern in Tehran.

Former State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan participated Wednesday in a conference of the Union of Corporations in Municipal Authorities, saying that the investigation of former Israel Bar Association chief Efi Naveh was justified and important."The claim that the case was closed because they were afraid of the recordings is complete bunk," he said.Regarding the cases against Israeli Prime MInister Binyamin Netanyahu, he said that "the Supreme Court and [Attorney General Avichai] Mandelblit were correct when they decided to allow a prime minister to serve under indictment."

Payment for unpaid leave to be cut 10% due to drop in unemployment