#41414 Hamas leaders: Meshal backs broad-based deal with Israel
by Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff, Gideon Alon, Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Khaled Meshal, head of the Hamas political office, supports Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's call for a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians, Meshal-affiliated Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip say. Speaking with Haaretz, the Hamas sourc ...
#41415 Top Justice officials: Mazuz may order criminal probe in Katsav case
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Senior Justice Ministry officials said yesterday that Attorney General Menachem Mazuz might instruct the police to open a criminal investigation into President Moshe Katsav's former bureau chief for alleged extortion. They suggested this is poss ...
#41416 J'lem mayor Uri Lupolianski to Haaretz: Israelis not ready for Haredi in key position
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski claims Israeli public discourse is tinged with racism regarding the function of ultra-Orthodox public figures, impairing their ability take senior roles in Israeli society. "We are made into a black flag," Lupolianski ...
#41417 'Gay parade in J'lem is like taking pig's head into Old City'
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
In recent years, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski has waged a personal campaign against a Gay Pride march in Jerusalem. According to him, this is a personal position which he has chosen to voice in public. Newspapers have been full of his harsh conde ...
#41418 Alleged victim moves out of J'lem home; lawyer says 'no comment'
by Ronit Singer-Heruti in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Sources close to A., the former President's Residence employee, declined to comment yesterday on reports that President Moshe Katsav told Attorney General Menachem Mazuz that she had tried to blackmail him. These sources and others familiar wit ...
#41419 Legal Analysis / There's no such thing as consensual
by Ze'ev Segal in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
The object of Israel's Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law is, according to its "purpose" clause, "to prohibit sexual harassment in order to protect the right to respect, human dignity, liberty and privacy and to promote equality between the sex ...
#41420 The Katsav Affair / Questions and answers: Where it stands now
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
b Did President Katsav file a complaint with the attorney general? He says no, but reality is a little more complex. In their meeting last Wednesday, Katsav reported orally to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz about a former employee's alleged att ...
#41421 Talks on prisoner swap pick up steam as PLO men meet Hamas' Meshal
by Avi Issacharoff in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Two senior Palestine Liberation Organization officials went to Damascus yesterday for talks with the head of the Hamas political office, Khaled Meshal, on the matter of the abducted Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. The two officials, Taysir Khaled, of ...
#41422 Upcoming report on Hamas raid raises tensions within IDF
by Amir Oren in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
The report of the committee investigating the Hamas raid against an Israel Defense Forces position near Kerem Shalom two weeks ago is due to be completed this morning and presented to Chief of Staff Dan Halutz in the next day or so. Lieutenant Hanan ...
#41423 Five Yitzhar settlers arrested for plotting to torch policeman's car
by Jonathan Lis, Amos Harel in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Petah Tikva District Court lifted a gag order yesterday revealing that five residents of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar were arrested about a week ago for allegedly plotting to set fire to the car of a policeman from the Samaria and Judea Distri ...
#41424 For the first time since 1967, Israel bars entry to Palestinian Americans
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
»For the first time since 1967, Israel is preventing the entry of Palestinians with foreign citizenship, most of them Americans, who are arriving from abroad, but have lived and worked for
years in the West Bank. According to a growing number ...
#41425 After 30 years, wife loses right to enter Israel
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
"It must be a mistake, the caprice of a clerk at border control," Aadel Samara responded when his wife Enayeh informed him by phone on May 26 that her entry to Israel, through the Sheikh Hussein Terminal (near Beit She'an), was not permitted. Th ...
#41426 Three-year-old girl crushed to death by truck at family picnic
by Jack Khoury in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
A family outing to Lake Kinneret ended in tragedy yesterday when a 3-year-old girl, Yara Faraj, was crushed to death by a van and her 4-month-old brother, Bashar, was critically injured. The children's grandmother, Nada Faraj, 75, was also in se ...
#41427 Sewing up a promising future
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
The Israel Prison Service (IPS) was recently surprised to discover that 85 percent of discharged prisoners who were employed during their incarceration at their prison's textile plant, managed to rehabilitate themselves and did not return to cri ...
#41428 16-year-old Netanya girl hospitalized with alcohol poisoning; bar-owner held
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
A 16-year-old girl was hospitalized in serious condition at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer over the weekend after drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. The girl, a Netanya resident, joined her 18-year-old boyfriend and others at a local pub to ...
#41429 Israel refuses contacts with new Polish minister
by AP in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
WARSAW - Israeli officials are refusing all contact with Poland's new education minister because he leads a right-wing party they consider anti-Semitic, a policy that could hinder cooperation in the area of Holocaust education, officials said ye ...
#41430 Lack of space for youth keeps minor in jail for 9 months
by Nir Hasson in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
A 16-year-old minor, A., has been held in jail for nine months because the state has failed to place him in a correction facility for juvenile delinquents, despite a court order. Tel Aviv District Court Judge David Rosen last week sharply criticized ...
#41431 Histadrut to fire religious councils' labor committee
by Haim Bior in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
The Histadrut labor federation decided yesterday to dismiss all members of the religious councils' national labor committee. This decision follows the failure of the battle by religious councils employees to rectify the ongoing non-payment of th ...
#41432 Megiddo Prison to make way for pilgrims
by Amiram Barkat in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Prisoners are likely to be transferred from Megiddo Prison to make way for archaeologists and tourists, after the discovery of an ancient Christian prayer house - considered the oldest in the world - at the site last year. In the spring of next year ...
#41433 Something to read on the treadmill
by Danit Nitzan in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
"You see so many mistakes made at the gym that it's worth studying the field before you start engaging in it seriously," says Ziv, 42, a doctor of sports administration and the deputy director of the school for sports training and further educat ...
#41434 Young and restless
by Goel Pinto in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
"I don't know what time you saw the film," he says, "but a movie about sleep is a movie about sleep. It has parts that are meant to make the viewer yawn, and parts of the soundtrack are supposed to make him doze off. Of course I don't want ...
#41436 Architecture / Make mine red with a huge balcony
by Gila Kolka in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
"It's even better if the road to the house is a tree-lined boulevard, and wide steps lead up to the house, whose door is opened by a waiting servant." This is how architect Eyal Itzkin, who has designed many residential projects throughout Israe ...
#41437 The cost of an empty apartment
by Arik Mirovsky in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Attorney Moti Fierer, of Hartavi, Bornstein, Basson and Partners, explains that the owners of empty apartments get several benefits. The most notable is an exemption from paying municipal taxes (arnona), which is granted for just six months of the en ...
#41438 Diplomacy is the only way out
by Haaretz editorial writer in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Although the exact details of the Egyptian proposal to resolve the Gaza crisis have not been officially published, its general lines are well known. They include the immediate release of abducted soldier Gilad Shalit, followed by the release of a ser ...
#41439 Officials: Mazuz may order criminal probe in Katsav case
by Yuval Yoaz, Amiram Barkat, Jonathan Lis, Zvi Zrahiya in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Probe of woman who allegedly blackmailed president could make Katsav suspect in the affair. ...
#41440 Roman Polanski offers new twist on 'Oliver' at film fest
by Reuters in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Polanski recounts flight from Jewish ghetto in Poland as inspiration for adaptation of Dickens' novel. ...
#41442 Megiddo prisoners could be moved after Christian relics found on site
by Amiram Barkat in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Transfer would enable archaeologists and tourists to visit oldest Christian prayer house in the world. ...
#41443 Treasury official violates rule, attends ball held by business mogul
by Guy Leshem in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Deputy to the accountant general Itzik Cohen came to the summer event of Cellcom, which also participates in Treasury tenders. ...
#41445 Boy who went missing during field trip found dead in Lake Nitzanim
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Divers find body of eight-year-old Shimon Tzeriker of Itamar; police investigating whether trip guides acted with negligence. ...
#41454 Treasury to step up labor law enforcement in state offices
by Merav Arlozorov in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Move sparked by repeated violations of employee rights working for state through contracting firms. ...
#41446 Home for mentally disabled set on fire day before opening
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Holon building has been set on fire once before; local residents have expressed opposition to shelter's opening. ...
#41413 Israel bars Palestinian Americans for first time since 1967
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
»For the first time since 1967, Israel is preventing the entry of Palestinians with foreign citizenship, most of them Americans. Most of those refused entry are arriving from abroad, but
have lived and worked for years in the West Bank. According to ...
#41447 Between cease-fire and flame-fanning
by Akiva Eldar in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Some people believe that the government is intensifying the conflict in the Gaza Strip in order to promote the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. Others are buying the story that the Shin Bet security services arrested the Hamas ministers to ...
#41448 Hamas is here to stay
by Danny Rubinstein in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Israeli political sources said late last week that the aim of the military operations in the Gaza Strip and the detention of senior Hamas officials in the West Bank was to make clear to Hamas that the abduction of Corporal Gilad Shalit will be of no ...
#41449 Losing pride in Jerusalem
by Shahar Ilan in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
It is unclear how many residents of the Dan region are prepared to divide Jerusalem, but sometimes it seems as if many of them have already given up the entire city - if not to the Palestinians, then to the ultra-Orthodox. They try to avoid traveling ...
#41450 Mocking the right to equality
by Ze'ev Segal in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
This week a bill that opposes the principle of equality before the law will apparently be placed before the Knesset. It would allow preferential treatment for white-collar workers suspected of financially related crimes, as opposed to people suspecte ...
#41451 Our recycling is in the dumps
by Avraham Poraz in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
In the late 1990s, when Rafael Eitan was minister of agriculture and of the environment, I initiated, together with several MKs, the bottle-deposit law for beverage containers. The purpose was a dual one: to clean up the environment and to reduce the ...
#41452 Down in the valley
by Zvi Bar'el in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
He ordered me to advance towards him with an abrupt, impatient gesture. As the soldier wordlessly drew a rectangle in the air, I realized that he wanted my identity papers. ?Why are you driving here?? he demanded to know. ?There is a lane for Israeli ...
#41453 Buy the sea, by the sea
by Zafrir Rinat in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
A pleasant drive to Palmahim beach west of Rishon Letzion was rudely truncated at the entrance gate, at a distance from the beach itself. In order to proceed, the visitor was asked to pay NIS 20. The people who manage the beach, located within the ju ...
#41456 Shas to support gov't in no-confidence motion on J'lem gay pride parade
by Yair Etinger, Jonathan Lis, Gideon Alon in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
In return ultra-Orthodox party requires of government to publicly call on J'lem mayor to cancel parade. ...
#41460 Mofaz to decide on fate of officials involved in train crash
by Sharon Kedmi in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Inquiry committee's report exposes years of neglect and serious failures in railroad authority, but makes no personal conclusions. ...
#41461 Obscure Einstein lover emerges as Hebrew U. unseals correspondence
by AP in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
Letters reveal Einstein lost much of Nobel money in depression, openly discussed his lovers with second wife. ...
#41464 Scientists: Development of Kinneret beaches must stop
by Zafrir Rinat in Ha'aretz, 10 July 2006
133 top researches petition Knesset to halt plans to build resort, commercial center along a Kinneret beach. ...