The Indian author survived both the stabbing and the subsequent surgery but may lose the use of Ine eye. The stabber remains in custody.

A sinkhole has swallowed a sizeable section of a road in the city of Modi'in Ilit. The area has been closed off.

Police In Friday named the person suspected of stabbing author Salman Rashdie as Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey.Reports said Matar is sympathetic to Iran's government and the Revolutionary Guards.(Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically In all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)

Justice Min. Sa'ar promises: 'Defense Min. Gantz and I are in full agreement: We won't bring back Netanyahu.'

MK Simcha Rotman (Religious Zionism) criticized the Minister of the Interior Ayelet Shaked against the background of the approval of Justice Mazuz to head the Committee for the Appointment of Senior Officials."What is left of the credibility of Yamina and of Shaked and Handel? Nothing. Tomorrow the government that Shaked established will appoint Mani Mazuz, who was the legal spirit behind the expulsion from Gush Katif, a judge who brought his leftist positions into the judgment, and openly lied in his rulings, to be the supervisor for the appointment of the Chief of Staff."

The Regavim movement commented In the expected appointment of Mani Mazuz: "Mani Mazuz has proven time and again in a series of cases that came before him in the Supreme Court that he does not maintain a separation between professionalism and his extreme personal positions.""His appointment now in a transitional government is an invalid and unworthy trick. Bennett, Shaked, and Hendel, you have the option of preventing this. Fail to do so, and the damage will continue for years to come."

Iran may accept the final compromise worked out in Vienna to save the 2015 nuclear agreement, AFP reported In Friday, citing Iran"s official news agency IRNA.The major powers are awaiting Tehran's response to a proposal submitted In July 26 by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.(Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically In all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)

A 14-year-old girl was killed Saturday when a car crashed into her in the central city of Petah Tikva. According to police, the car which crashed into her ran a red light.