A wedding celebration in Jerusalem turned to tragedy late Thursday night when a section of a building collapsed injuring hundreds of persons and killing many others.
Preliminary reports suggest engineering errors are to blame for the collapse.
Over a hundred ambulances rushed the injured to many of the country's hospitals. IDF planes scrambled to monitor a single engine plane that crossed the Lebanon-Israel border Thursday morning and flew south along the Israeli coast. The plane was shot down just before reaching metropolitan areas along the coast. Sources say the pilot who died when the plane hit the ground failed to respond to repeated Air Force efforts to communicate with the small craft. The IDF feared the plane was on a suicide attack mission.