#65602 Treasury proposes HMOs decide which medications to provide in 'basket'
by Ronny Linder-Ganz, TheMarker in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Funds to be transferred directly to health service without gov't scrutiny; Health Minister: Proposal is 'frivolous.' ...
#65526 State witness protection plan delayed by several years
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
The state's witness protection authority will not launch its program before 2008, over two years since the government approved its formation, authority head Arye Livneh told the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee on Tuesday. Committee Chairman O ...
#65527 Education Ministry nixes program for special needs kindergarteners
by Or Kashti in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
The Education Ministry will cease funding special education programs in regular kindergartens for children with special needs. The decision, which applies to three- and four-year-olds, will go into effect in the coming school year, and while the mini ...
#65528 Mubarak to host Olmert-Abbas summit in Sharm next week
by Aluf Benn, Avi Issacharoff, Barak Ravid in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
A regional summit is scheduled to take place next week at the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, with the participation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The summit is being hosted by Egyptian President Hos ...
#65529 Garbage, looting and raw memories of Hamas executions
by Catrin Ormestad in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
GAZA STRIP - The first image one sees when entering the Gaza Strip is the "sleeve," the concrete corridor of the Erez crossing where some 150 Palestinians, mostly young, lie on cement benches. They have been waiting six days to be allowed into Israel ...
#65530 Staff shortage silences abused children
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Children who have been sexually molested by a family member may be forced to wait up to three months before being questioned by police for lack of youth investigators, says the National Council for the Child. A boy, 12, who has complained to police ...
#65531 Twice betrayed
by Yossi Sarid in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
The Ministerial Committee for Ceremonies and Symbols decided on Sunday to hold an official memorial ceremony for the victims of the Second Lebanon War. It will be held on the anniversary of the war - July 2, 2007 - to honor the memory of the 119 sold ...
#65532 Education Min. nixes aides for special needs preschoolers
by Or Kashti in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
The Education Ministry will cease funding special education programs in regular kindergartens for children with special needs. The decision, which applies to three- and four-year-olds, will go into effect in the coming school year, and while the mini ...
#65533 Ibn Gvirol residents wanted leafy trees, not palms
by Yigal Hai in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Palm trees planted along the newly renovated stretch of Ibn Gvirol Street have irked residents, who say the city should have planted trees that provide more shade and greenery. "They should have planted trees with more foliage. The renovation makes ...
#65534 Washington to increase military aid to Israel
by Aluf Benn, Shmuel Rosner in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
WASHINGTON - The United States will increase its military assistance to Israel and sign a new agreement securing American aid to the country for the next decade, President George W. Bush announced Tuesday following his meeting with Prime Minister Ehu ...
#65535 In Israel, Palestinians tell of Hamas butchery
by Fadi Eyadat, Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Fatan al-Hinawi, 9, was hospitalized in the children's ward of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv after being wounded in Gaza. A bullet punctured her side, hit her spine, bowels, a kidney and came out the other side, hitting her arm. Al-Hinawi is one ...
#65536 4 militants killed near Kissufim, 2 Islamic Jihad men in W. Bank
by Yuval Azoulay, Avi Issacharoff, Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was moderately wounded and four Palestinian gunmen were killed early yesterday in a gun battle near the Kissufim crossing on the Gaza-Israel border. The incident took place when the gunmen opened fire on IDF troops se ...
#65537 Court: State can decide who to hospitalize in Israel
by Haaretz staff, AP , Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
The High Court of Justice yesterday upheld in principle the state's right to determine which Palestinians it allows into the country for medical treatment. The interim decision came after Physicians for Human Rights and the Gisha legal advocacy ...
#65538 Humanitarian crisis could arise in Gaza
by Barak Ravid, Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Israel and the international community were still trying yesterday to find a solution to the crossing points into the Gaza Strip now that Hamas has taken over the area. Meanwhile, Palestinians wounded in violent clashes in Gaza were being transferre ...
#65539 Holocaust assets / 90-year-old hopes to finally see needed inheritance
by Amiram Barkat in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
In her 90 years, Anna Kahn of Kibbutz Afikim has experienced many tragedies. In 1938 she fled Austria for Britain, and she does not know what happened to her parents and brother from that time until they were murdered in the Holocaust. In 1954, while ...
#65540 New Web site lists Shoah assets in Israel
by Amiram Barkat in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Some 35,000 people visited the Web site of Israel's Holocaust property restitution company and 145 people filed property claims yesterday, its first day of operation. Representatives of The Company for Locating and Retrieving Assets of People W ...
#65541 Itzik vows to block budget if survivors' aid not paid
by Zvi Zarhiya in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
#65542 7,000 officers to protect Pride parade; ultra-Orthodox stage violent protests
by Jonathan Lis, Yair Ettinger in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Police will deploy more than 7,000 officers today in Jerusalem to protect an estimated crowd of 5,000 people expected to attend the Gay Pride parade. Ultra-Orthodox extremists staged violent protests yesterday, and police expect demonstrations to con ...
#65543 Parade receives final court approval
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
The High Court of Justice yesterday gave its final okay for the Gay Pride parade scheduled to take place today in Jerusalem, rejecting three petitions by right-wing and religious parties who called for the event's cancelation, adding that by all ...
#65544 Ze'ev Schiff remembered for 'truthful words'
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Hundreds of friends and family paid their final respects to Haaretz military commentator and defense editor Ze'ev Schiff, who was laid to rest yesterday at the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv. Schiff - Wolfy to his friends - died Tuesday night ...
#65545 State witness protection plan stuck at starting gate
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
#65546 Man jailed for 2.5 years for importing weapons illegally
by Jack Khoury in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
A man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison yesterday for importing and attempting to produce weapons and illegally owning military equipment. Jeffrey Seth, 40, of the Tapuach settlement in the West Bank, was also sentenced by the Haifa Di ...
#65547 Hebron's burning
by Zipi Shochat in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
The political situation was not the motivation for writing 'Hebron,' but the play is likely to spark Israeli theater's next political scandal. Just watching the shocking scene in which Israeli soldiers cut down olive trees is enough to ...
#65548 Between a vision and a mirage
by Shmuel Rosner in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Washington - Early in the morning, even before Ehud Olmert had time to sit in the guest armchair in the White House, several of his traveling companions found time to leaf through the article by famous Middle East scholar Fuad Ajami in The New York T ...
#65549 Mahmoud Abbas is a fiction
by Yisrael Harel in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
George W. Bush and Ehud Olmert looked pathetic giving their "full backing" to the broken-down crutch that is Mahmoud Abbas. Contrary to the talk in Washington, nothing has changed to open a new opportunity for negotiations over a final settlement. It ...
#65550 Anyone but a successful businessman
by Nehemia Shtrasler in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
The temptation is great. To turn to a successful businessman and to offer him the job of finance minister. To ask him to dedicate a few years to Israel's economy, to make a personal sacrifice and to get us onto the path of dizzying success, just ...
#65551 Separation at the Erez crossing
by Meron Benvenisti in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Israel had to cook up a convincing reason to justify arbitrarily preventing some 200 people from crossing from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. After all, this isn't an attempt to infiltrate Israel, but a demand that Israel uphold an old commitm ...
#65552 Ahad Ha'am would have been thrilled
by A.B. Yehoshua in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Usually I read the articles by Avi Sagi and Yedidia Stern with affection and interest. It is said that two heads are better than one, and I usually find the manner in which they handle national issues and Zionism credible and responsible. Thus, so th ...
#65553 The road to hell
by Moshe Arens in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
If you want to know what hell looks like just take a look at the recent pictures of the carnage in Gaza. It might be comforting to say that this has nothing to do with us in Israel, but this would only be another of the many escapist delusions that c ...
#65554 Border control / Publishing for peace
by Akiva Eldar in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
If someone had told Eitan Livni while he was still alive that his daughter would one day write an article for an Arab newspaper stating that the homeland, the "little" land of Israel, the one between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, should ...
#65555 Children forced to keep silent about abuse for lack of skilled interrogators
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
National Council for the Child: Numerous cases of sexual and physical assault will not be investigated for months due to staff shortage. ...
#65561 Police to dispatch 7,000 officers to J'lem Gay Pride parade
by Jonathan Lis, Yair Ettinger in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
15 arrested, water cannons deployed to quell violent protests preceding march; 5,000 marchers expected. ...
#65573 Police arrest 14-year-old on charges of sexual assault
by Jack Khoury in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
According to the Police, the suspect is accussed of luring the victims, his neighbors, to his house where he allegedly raped both of them. ...
#65576 Ban Ki-moon criticizes UN Human Rights Council for singling Israel out
by Reuters in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined Western nations on Wednesday in criticizing the world body's own Human Rights Council for "picking on Israel" as part of an agreement on its working rules.
The European Union, Canada and the Unit ...
#65577 Panel told Supreme Court candidates will favor banking sector
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Group of activists, attorneys informs selction committee of candidates strong ties to banks. ...
#65578 Zoo raises hatchlings, with the aid of a stuffed vulture head and rat puree
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
#65586 Police probe head of Haifa Rabbinical Court on fraud, forgery, bribery charges
by Fadi Eyadat in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
National Fraud Investigate Unit probing whether Rabbi Shlomo Chelouche took bribes from people seeking conversions; Chelouche's lawyers deny all accusations. ...
#65587 Judge: Suspected Natan-Zada killers likely won't be indicted
by Jack Khoury in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Jewish terrorist killed four Arab-Israelis in Shfaram during run-up to Israel's 2005 Gaza pullout. ...
#65591 Police, gov't launch new campaign to fight pirate radio broadcasters
by Zohar Blumenkrantz in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
AG Meni Mazuz to push for stiffer fines, jail time for pirate radio station broadcasters; new program to determine how many indictments to bring against broadcasters. ...
#65615 Police uncover weapons lab in home of West Bank settler
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 21 June 2007
Police found equipment used to fix decommissioned guns last month, don't believe motive is ideological. ...