A morning newspaper quoted a "senior official" as saying that terror attacks were expected in the near term as the Palestinians try to show that "Operation Defensive Shield" was ineffective - but that in the longer term severe damage had been done to their infrastructure.

Against my better judgement then, me and my spouse caught breakfast in a small coffee place without a guard. Tense at first, then you start to forget.

I was doing my laundry this PM at a laundromat. I stepped out and saw on a TV about the Mahane Yehuda bombing. Last I heard: 6 dead and 50 injured.

Signing off for the Sabbath.