Border Police troops on Wednesday arrested two Arabs suspected of dealing in arms at a checkpoint in the Jerusalem area, with large sums of terror funds in their possession.

Intelligence sharing between the Israeli police and the IDF led to an operation carried out by Border Policemen stationed at the Kiosk Checkpoint at the entrance to the Arab town of Abu Dis, in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

Acting on the information, the troops identified and stopped a vehicle belonging to one of the suspects. The second suspect was in the car as well.

A search of the vehicle yielded a bag containing a large amount of money, including about NIS 80,000 in cash, 2,700 euros, $3,350, several dozen dinars and dozens of checks.

The defense establishment believes that the two have been involved in the trafficking of weapons and that the money they had in their possession was used to fund terrorism.

The two suspects are residents of the city of Jenin in the Palestinian Authority (PA) in their late 20s.

“The cooperation between the security organizations operating in Judea and Samaria, including that between the Israeli police and the IDF, contributes greatly to countering terrorism and strengthening the security of Israeli citizens,” the Border Police stated.

IDF forces operating in the Arab town of Schweich, in the Tul Karem area, on Wednesday night was faced with some 150 Arab rioters who threw rocks at the troops. The forces responded by crowd control means.

They arrested 32 suspects and confiscated several vehicles.

There were no Israeli casualties in the incidents.

In addition, Israeli forces conducting counter-terrorism operations throughout Judea and Samaria arrested 11 wanted persons suspected of involvement in terrorist activity and violence against Israeli civilians and the IDF. The suspects were taken for questioning.

Israeli Air Force (IAF) Lieutenant Colonel G. made history on Tuesday when she became the first female pilot to receive the command of a squadron.

LTC. G. received the command of the Nachshon Squadron, which is responsible for airborne signal intelligence collection.

LTC. G., 35, joined the IAF in 2003 and graduated as a transport pilot. At the end of the course, she was assigned to 135^th Squadron and later moved to the 131^st Rhino Squadron and held a variety of command positions the IAF’s at Flight School

In 2019, she served as Head of Evaluation in the Planning and Control Division of the Power Building.

“LTC. G, the mother of two sons, is a role model and an inspiration to thousands of women in the State of Israel,” said Air Force commander Gen. Amikam Norkin.

“Well done, our first female operational squadron commander in the Air Force, we’ve been waiting for that for 71 years,” he stated.

The military court in Judea on Monday sentenced the terrorist Faiz Hamed to life in prison for the murder of Malachi Rosenfeld in June 2015.

Hamed was convicted of several offenses, including intentionally causing death, the equivalent to the murder in Israeli law, and attempts to commit this offense on other occasions.

He was also ordered to compensate Rosenfeld’s family.

The verdict states that the terrorist was an active member in a terror cell that planned to carry out attacks against Israelis. As part of the squad’s operations, its members carried out a number of shooting attacks.

On June 29, 2015, two of the squad members traveled in a vehicle purchased in advance for the attack and fired at a vehicle in which Malachi Rosenfeld, a 25-year-old resident of Kochav Hashahar in the Jerusalem area, was traveling in. He was fatally wounded and died from his wounds in the hospital. Three others were also injured in the attack .the four had been returning from a basketball game.

On another occasion, the cell fired at an Israeli vehicle and ambulance.

The Shin Bet named a total of seven members of the Hamas terror cell who were involved in the various phases of the planning, execution and concealing of the terror attacks.

An investigation into the attack revealed that the weapon used to murder Rosenfeld was paid for by a terrorist released from prison who used the monthly stipend he received from the Palestinian Authority (PA) to purchase it.

An IDF soldier was seriously injured on Sunday as a result of a work accident

An IDF spokesman stated Sunday night that an IDF soldier was severely injured as a result of an accident involving work tools in a food warehouse in the north of the country.

The military police launched an investigation into the incident.

The findings will be passed to the military prosecutor’s office for an examination.

His family was notified.