With all the volatility we’re seeing in the epicenter, I just want to say a quick word of thanks to all those who are visiting this weblog and finding it helpful. In August of last year when we switched to this new format, we began with 109,726 viewers. By January during the Gaza war, the number had climbed to 233,169 viewers. Thanks, too, for your kind and thoughtful emails, as well as those challenging my views and/or correcting my mistakes. My team and I try to read them all, but due to the volume of emails we’re getting, I’m sorry that I’m not able to personally respond to them all. May the Lord bless you as you keep tracking with events in the epicenter and keep praying for the peace of Jerusalem, as the Bible teaches us to do in Psalm 122:6.

HEADLINES TO TRACK:

• Livni: Joining Likud gov’t a breach of Kadima voters’ trust
• Israel’s Netanyahu to meet Livni in bid for broad coalition
• 2 rockets fired from Lebanon toward Israel
• Palestinian rocket fired into Israel from Gaza (note: more than 50 rockets fired from Hamas at southern Israel since the “cease fire”)