National Briefing / And Finally . . .

Joe the Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, who became a household name during the presidential campaign, is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative website Pajamas TV. He'll spend 10 days letting Israel's " 'Average Joes' share their story," he told WNWO-TV in Toledo, Ohio.