#9056 A European peace umbrella
by Baruch Kimmerling in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
»In fact, such a way does exist – a move that, although to a large extent contrary to the basic conception of the EU, would be less costly in all respects and perhaps even of trivial cost to the Europeans. Such a move could bring about a fundamental ...
#9076 'Suddenly there was a big blast and my brothers disappeared'
by Revital Levy-Stein in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
All the fire engines in Eilat were sent to the Hilton in Taba last night, and firemen succeeded in rescuing two trapped blast victims shortly after their arrival. ...
#9079 Ten Palestinians killed in IDF operations in territories
by Amos Harel, Nir Hasson, Aluf Benn in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
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#9080 Iran made uranium compound
by Yossi Melman in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
#9083 Haifa's Nobel laureates celebrate in jeans
by David Ratner in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
#9085 Nobel winners discover process of protein demise, key to cancer drugs
by Tamara Traubmann in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
#9082 Lufthansa seeks clarification from Israel over rerouted flight
by Zohar Blumenkrantz in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
#9077 Hilton Taba - Israelis' favorite hotel
by Irit Rosenblum in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
After the outbreak of the intifada many Israelis refrained from going to the hotel and those who did were mainly gamblers. About a year and a half ago, Israelis resumed tours in Sinai, and the hotel became once again a recreation spot for families as ...
#9081 Syria arrest Palestinian suspect in Damascus bomb
by Yoav Stern in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Syrian police have detained a Palestinian man for questioning on suspicion of aiding Israel in carrying out a car bombing in Damascus on September 26, in which senior Hamas militant Iz a Din al-Sheikh Khalil was killed, Arabic-language newspa ...
#9084 Hershko and Ciechanover - Israeli trained
by Tamara Traubmann in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
#9078 Qureia tells Haaretz: U.S. may be guilty of collusion
by Arnon Regular in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) yesterday expressed dismay over remarks by the prime minister's adviser, Dov Weisglass, that the significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. The remarks by Wei ...
#9075 Analysis / The adviser that roared
by Aluf Benn in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
»American administration because of their tone and especially because of their timing. President George Bush is in the middle of an election campaign, being attacked for his failed foreign
policy, when the adviser of the prime minister of Isra ...
#9074 Sharon clarifies Weisglass's comments on road map
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Sharon issued a statement clarifying his position on the disengagement plan and on the international road map, eager to assuage a torrent of concerns that were voiced following statements made by his senior adviser, Dov Weisglass in an interview with ...
#9073 Technion professors win Nobel in chemistry
by Oded Hermoni in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Two Israeli professors at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa have won the Nobel prize in chemistry for 2004, along with a colleague from the University of California at Irvine. ...
#9072 `Bodies strewn everywhere'
by Revital Levy-Stein in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
TABA - 'There were dozens of bodies strewn everywhere, some of them children,' said Rani, a paramedic with the private Ambulance A company in Eilat, standing at the entrance to the Hilton Hotel. 'I personally saw about 30.' ...
#9071 Analysis / Culprits unknown, but goals a plenty
by Zvi Bar'el in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Suicide bombers, booby-trapped cars or a gas leak; by midnight it was still impossible to get confirmed information from official Egyptian sources. ...
#9070 Sinai terror: Dozens killed in Taba hotel blast
by Amos Harel, Yuval Azoulay, Revital Levy-Stein, Yossi Melman in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
At least 35 Israelis were killed and 120 injured last night in a massive blast at the Taba Hilton in Egypt, police sources said. ...
#9086 The big freeze
by Ari Shavit in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
In a certain sense, a superficial one, Ariel Sharon and Dov Weisglass are an odd couple. Sharon is a rancher from the western Negev, Weisglass a lawyer from Lilienblum Street in Tel Aviv. Sharon is the son of a Russian agronomist, Weisglass the son o ...
#9090 Family affair - The Hibberts
by Avner Avrahami in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Occupation and mission: Rev. Fred Hibbert is minister of St. Andrew's Scottish Church in Tiberias. He has been in Israel since 1995. He ran (with Diana) the Scottish Hostel in the city and since October 2000 has been in charge of the establishme ...
#9089 The range wars
by Tal Hassin, Yaron Kaminsky in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
In the world of cattle growers in the north of Israel, theft, arson and poisoning are daily occurrences. Cowboys accuse the Bedouin of a takeover plan, the Bedouin blame the state for shortchanging them, and some people believe that the mysterious th ...
#9087 Twilight Zone / His story
by Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
This one man embodies it all: Here you have the whole story of Palestinian suffering and struggle encapsulated in one person's biography. If it weren't a true story, one might suspect it was some sort of propaganda. Yusef al-Mughrabi, an amputee and ...
#9088 Educating the system
by Yulie Khromchenko, Nir Kafri in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
In a grave tone officials informed the parents that their children would not be continuing in the school and that they should try to enroll them in the vocational school in Tira or in Kafr Qassem. ...
#9092 Going quietly
by Amos Harel in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Operation Days of Penitence cannot achieve its goals by using existing methods. Everyone agrees that it has played itself out; the question is how and when to leave ...
#9093 Sharon's hot winter
by Aluf Benn in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
The prime minister will have plenty to keep him busy the next few months and things will only get harder as his timetable progresses. ...
#9094 Let them rebel - the left is with us
by Yossi Verter in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Meir Sheetrit is optimistic: The disengagement plan will be approved with the left's votes. United Torah Judaism will pass the budget, the National Religious Party will stay until the last minute and Sharon will get through the Knesset session i ...
#9095 City built on sand
by Daniel Ben Simon in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Nothing seems to work out in Be'er Sheva. No matter how many resources the state heaps on it, the `Negev's capital' seems to be slowly sinking into despair ...
#9097 Season of pain, season of joy
by Jerrold Kessel, Pierre Klochendler in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Fifteen days into this complex world, under sedation, Mohammed Shaheen, the family's first son, sleeps peacefully two hours after the tohour, the Muslim circumcision ceremony. ...
#9098 The chill from the rising sun
by Adar Primor in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Yoriko Kawaguchi smiles as she recalls her stay at Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar in 1962. She was then 21 years old. As a self-proclaimed feminist, she was interested in studying the unique methods of child rearing and family life on the kibbutz ...
#9099 Stand by your music!
by Sagi Bin Nun in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Karmiel and Tel Aviv are tapping their feet to the sounds of homegrown folk, country and bluegrass tunes - not necessarily performed by nostalgic Anglos ...
#9100 A soul for sale
by Uri Dromi in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
This could easily be the life story of a suicide bomber who carried a belt of explosives into the heart of an Israeli city, or of a terrorist who forced an American pilot to fly his airliner into a Manhattan skyscraper ...
#9101 Stretcher case
by Amos Harel in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Israel's eagerness to persuade the world of the rightness of its path by means of photos of an UNRWA ambulance carrying Qassam rockets led to an embarrassing mistake. Peter Hansen, the agency's director, celebrated his victory with restrain ...
#9102 The devil's own disengagement
by Lily Galili in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
The thousands of Evangelical Christians who convened this week outside the Knesset to say a mass prayer for the peace of Jerusalem love Israel very much - but have no love for Ariel Sharon or his disengagement plan ...
#9103 Time to split
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Retired Justice Dalia Dorner has harsh criticism for the actions of the legal system in the Greek island affair. Her advice: separate the role of legal adviser to the government from the role of attorney general ...
#9104 A voice that won't be silenced
by Tamar Rotem in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Fighting sexual harassment in religious society and promoting women's prayer quorums has put Chana Kehat, founder of the feminist Kolech group, on a collision course with the rabbis ...
#9105 Digging up the dirt on Dayan
by Ran Shapira in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
A new study reveals dozens of reports, complaints and letters documenting the damage done by the late Moshe Dayan to Israel's archaeological treasures, his disregard of the law and the indifference of the authorities. ...
#9106 The courage to read
by Rebecca Rass in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Far from the prying eyes of the Iranian thought police, a professor of literature and seven female students declared the freedom of the individual. ...
#9107 From lepers to Brahmins
by Shimon Redlich in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
In the idealization of the Holocaust survivor, Hoffman cautions, lurks the danger of turning the horrific into the fashionable ...
#9108 Liberty, equality - and control
by Shlomo Avineri in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
It has been a long time since we have seen a book that is so critical of the U.S., but which displays so much sympathy for, and appreciation of, America ...
#9096 A pall on the poll
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Even in the only village in the territories that elected its own municipality - and reaped a host of benefits - no one is particularly excited by the prospect of Palestinian general elections
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A lot of cars with yellow Israeli lice ...
#9109 Activists: Israeli vote could swing U.S. election
by Daphna Berman in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Americans living in Israel may swing the outcome of the American elections come November, local political activists said this week. ...
#9110 Few local Aussies can vote back home
by Charlotte Halle in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
A very slow trickle of Australian nationals appeared at the embassy in Tel Aviv on Monday morning to take the first opportunity to vote in the upcoming Australian federal election. ...
#9111 Ethiopian law students to 'open the eyes' of Jews and Blacks in the U.S.
by Charlotte Halle in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
Ethiopian-Israeli law students are to meet with their African-American counterparts in a new program designed to foster leadership in the Ethiopian community here and improve Israel's image abroad. ...
#9112 John Howard - our tested friend
by Chemi Shalev in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
From Israel's point of view, a victory for Latham will be a total loss, even though Labour also has a long history of friendship with Israel. But Howard is the quintessential friend who agreed to isolate Australia at the UN by joining the ostracized ...
#9113 What the adviser said
by Haaretz editorial writer in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
The segments of an interview granted by Dov Weisglass, the senior adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and former director of the Prime Minister's Office, to Ari Shavit, in Wednesday's paper, and appearing in full in today's Haaretz Magazine, has s ...
#9114 Moral norms, even in war
by Ze'ev Schiff in Ha'aretz, 8 October 2004
It is not our role to preach to others, but when the actions of the Israeli Air Force in the war against terror, including the current operation in the Gaza Strip, are compared to what is happening in Iraq, it can be said that the Israel Defense Forc ...