Israeli motorists were firebombed Wednesday by Arab terrorists near the Jewish community of Ma’ale Amos, in Gush Etzion. No physical injuries were reported.

In a separate attack a few minutes’ drive south of that location, Israeli drivers came under a barrage of stones hurled by Arab terrorists as they drove pasts the village of El Aroub on Highway 60.

El Aroub is located south of Gush Etzion, about 10 minutes north of Kiryat Arba. No physical injuries were reported in any of the stoning attacks, but there were no details available about damage to the vehicles.

Rocks were thrown at cars south-east of Efrat on the road that passes next to the village of Um Salmona.

One car was lightly damaged from the stone, but no one was injured in the attack.

For the third time in the past week, Arabs set the brush around the fence of the community of Karmei Tzur in Gush Etzion on fire.

The latest arson attack happened just before 6 AM on Sunday morning, according to a TPS report.

The masked arsonists came up from the nearby Arab settlement of Beit Omer.

Local residents and the IDF managed to put out the fire.

The tunnel road linking Gush Etzion and Jerusalem was closed on Tuesday morning after soldiers heard shots fired at them.

A civilian who got caught inside the checkpoint during the attack described the situation as a “balagan”, a lot of confusion.

As soon as the shots were fired, the checkpoint went into a terrorist response mode. The road was closed and soldiers began preparing for action.

Following a quick search, a bullet was found embedded in one of the concrete barriers at the checkpoint.

One soldier was lightly scratched on his leg by the ricochet from the shooting, but he refused to be evacuated to the hospital.

The road has now been reopened.

A well orchestrated ambush by Arabs on Rt. 443, the alternative highway connecting the Tel Aviv metro area with Jerusalem via Modi’in, resulted in three Israelis injured from stones and broken glass and damage to a dozen vehicles.

According to motorists who spoke to News 0404, late Monday night masked Arab terrorists poured oil on the highway about two miles east of the Maccabim check post, then stood by the side of the road and as each Israeli car arrived and started swerving on the oil, they smashed it with very large stones. At least 12 vehicles were seriously damaged, as windows and windshields were cracked and broken, as well as the sides and roofs.

Security forces were alerted and arrived on the scene shooting at the terrorists.

Arab media sources reported that four attackers were wounded in addition to the one Arab who was killed.

Update: The IDF is investigating if the IDF troops accidentally shot and killed an Arab bystander and wounded a second Arab who were not involved in the attack.
Please see this story for more information.

Also on Monday night, at 11:52 PM, Arabs set fire to an IDF post near Al Arub using a Molotov cocktail. At 11:34 Arabs threw stones at an Israeli vehicle in Huwara, Samaria, causing heavy damage. At 11:04 Arabs set fire to the Gva’ot forest in Gush Etzion. At 10 PM Arabs threw stones to vehicles in Huwara, Samaria. At 8:03 PM Arabs rioted near Zeita Jamma’in in Samaria.

In other words, a normal evening.

A 41-year-old man from Ra’anana suffered a heart attack on Saturday night. The man lost control of his car and drove it into the Furama sidewalk restaurant in Tel Aviv, according to police.

Three people were killed in the accident, several more were injured.

One of those killed was Alan Weinkratz, a Tech/PR/Social Media guru from San Antonio, Texas.

Weinkratz regular traveled back and forth between Israel and the US, promoting Israel, technology and advising Israeli startups.

Weinkratz, along with MK Michael Oren, met with JewishPress.com in December 2015, at Hub Etzion, a co-working startup space, where Weinkratz was offering advice to the local startups in the newly formed business hub, while learning more about the burgeoning startup community in Gush Etzion.

At the time Weinkratz presented Oren with his signature Rackspace poster that points an arrow at Israel as “The Five-Thousand Year Old Startup”.

On person has been lightly injured near (Arab) Tekoa, after stones were thrown at the car. The car’s windshield was also broken.

Last week, an armored Israeli school bus was hit by gunfire near (Arab) Tekoa.