1: Electronic Intifada 2: Ha'aretz 3: IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center) 4: Stop the Wall 5: The Independent
#74580 The Palestine that we struggle for
by Jamal Juma'a in Electronic Intifada, 2 December 2007
The gulf between the PA and the Palestinian people is becoming increasingly obvious. Indeed the whole range of ...
#74511 Eilat hotels ban hiring foreign workers in favor of new immigrants
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Jewish Agency sent 50 delegations around world to recruit workers and potential immigrants. ...
#74512 Peki`in officials call to establish commission to probe clashes
by Jack Khoury in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
At conference in town, MKs and Druze officials say probe must investigate violence, draw conclusions. ...
#74520 Teachers fear court may order them back to work Sunday
by Or Kashti in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Meanwhile, the National Parents Organization announced a strike in grades 1-12 today in support of the striking teachers. ...
#74521 Teachers fear court may order them back to work today
by Or Kashti in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
The Secondary School Teachers Association (SSTA) said yesterday it is concerned that the National Labor Court today will order the striking high school teachers back to work.
Meanwhile, the National Parents Organization announced a strike in grade ...
#74522 Parents split over holding strike
by Or Kashti in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Conflicting statements by two parents' groups regarding a school strike today - and categorical announcements from the Education Ministry and Israel Teachers Union (ITU) that school will take place as usual - left pupils and parents reeling this ...
#74523 Security and proportionality in Gaza
by Ze'ev Segal in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
The High Court of Justice's decision on Friday to delay reducing electricity to Gaza until the court can review details about implementation continues the court's intervention in security matters. The court itself is under criticism from va ...
#74524 Israel awaits court call on Gaza power cut
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
The defense establishment does not intend to begin reducing electricity from Israel to the Gaza Strip until it receives a green light from the High Court of Justice, legal officials said over the weekend.
The statement came after the High Court ru ...
#74525 IDF kills 5 Hamas members, another armed man in Gaza
by Avi Issacharoff, Yuval Azoulay, Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Six armed Palestinians were killed by the Israel Defense Forces in two incidents in the Gaza Strip yesterday. Five of the dead were Hamas members.
In the first incident, which occured east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, the five Hamas m ...
#74526 Study: U.S., Israel should start talks on how to attack Iranian nuclear facilities
by Aluf Benn in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Israel and the United States should begin an intense dialogue on ways to deal with Iran's nuclear plans and should study ways to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, a new study states.
The report, by a former deputy head of the National Se ...
#74527 Nobody checked: Wards of the state going unmonitored - but not for long
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
The Justice Ministry plans to establish a unit for monitoring the guardians assigned to tens of thousands of helpless people. Currently there is no documentation of guardians, nor oversight of their activity, despite their being entrusted with the we ...
#74528 U.S. takes back UN draft due to Israel's objections
by Shlomo Shamir, Avi Issacharoff in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
The United States on Friday withdrew a UN Security Council draft resolution endorsing the Israeli-Palestinian Annapolis agreement after Israeli leaders objected to it. The move came just a few hours before the Security Council was to vote on the reso ...
#74529 5 get organs of man killed in tank mishap
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
The organs of Israel Defense Forces soldier Ma'ayan Rottenberg, 18, who died Friday from injuries sustained while performing routine maintenance on a tank, were donated to five people in Israel and Germany this weekend.
Three men and one woma ...
#74530 Envoy: More Iran sanctions possible
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
PARIS - Leading international powers may have an agreement within weeks on a third U.N. sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said after high-level talks in Paris yesterday.
"The meeting was held in a positi ...
#74531 State: Leumi-Olmert file still open
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Sources in the State Prosecutor's Office expressed misgivings over the weekend about reports that the designated state prosecutor, Moshe Lador, intends to adopt the police's recommendation to close the investigation against Prime Minister E ...
#74533 Striking lecturers to increase protest measures, partner with junior staff
by Tamara Traubmann in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Striking senior university faculty members are planning to increase coordination with junior staff members and students, and to take more visible protest measures, as their strike enters its fourth week today.
The Coordinating Council of Faculty A ...
#74534 Now staffing Eilat hotels: New olim
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Vacationers in Eilat who take the trouble to glance at the name tags of the staff waiting on them will notice the change that has swept through the personnel landscape at hotels in this resort town. John from Ghana has been replaced by Carlos from Ch ...
#74535 Bedouin hold workshop on avoiding village planning mistakes
by Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
The residents of Abu Talul say they want to avoid the consequences of misguided government planning that other Bedouin villages suffered in the process of being recognized by the state: "We want to take part in planning the village," says their leade ...
#74536 Turkish army fires at Kurdish rebels on Iraqi territory
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
ISTANBUL - The Turkish military said yesterday it fired on a group of 50 to 60 Kurdish rebels inside Iraqi territory, inflicting significant losses.
It did not say whether Turkish troops had crossed the border into Iraq. ...
#74537 Russian election: much fanfare, but middling enthusiasm
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
MOSCOW - Russians head to the polls today with great official fanfare but doubtful enthusiasm, in a parliamentary election so dominated by President Vladimir Putin's party that the opposition is virtually invisible.
The only question about th ...
#74539 The enemy within
by Haaretz editorial writer in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Three Israel Defense Force soldiers were killed and more than 10 were injured in accidents over the past month. More than terrorist organizations, the enemy within has struck at the IDF in the form of mishaps, carelessness and even gross negligence. ...
#74540 It's hard to be weaned off Zelekha
by Ehud Asheri in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
The natural tendency is to view the Ehud Olmert-Bank Leumi case in terms of a western; as a moral showdown between the good guys and bad guys. The problem is that the scriptwriter is a wise guy. Instead of deciding who is the good guy and who is the ...
#74541 Danino's doctrine
by Amir Oren in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
On Thursday, something historic occurred in Israel. A new doctrine was defined: From now on, the police will recommend that the state prosecution issue indictments only if the investigation yields "evidentiary material leading necessarily to a single ...
#74542 One PA - with Hamas
by Zvi Bar'el in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
As much as the Annapolis conference sought to be "in favor" of the peace process, it measured its success in its ability to be "against" - against Iran, against Hezbollah, against Syria and against Hamas. This is an ostensibly simple and convincing m ...
#74543 Longing for Deri
by Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
In a tailored suit, his beard well groomed, and no longer bespectacled, Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai shuttled from interview to interview: "Nothing will emerge from Annapolis." This minister of nothing now constitutes the government's right- ...
#74544 Gaydamak goes after the vote, in absentia
by Lily Galili in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
A car parked at the entrance of Tamir Mazarib's house in the Bedouin community of Beit Zarzir in the north is decorated with stickers for Avigdor Lieberman's old party, Moledet, and the Likud. On the car a blue Star of David on the car is p ...
#74545 Our man at the biennale, an architect from Taibeh
by Esther Zandberg in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Few, if any Israelis, will visit the 7th International Biennale of Architecture that opened at the end of November in far away Sao Paulo, Brazil, where Senan Abdelqader's "Architecture of Dependence" exhibit is representing Israel. Abdelqader hi ...
#74546 State source: Bank Leumi case against Olmert not yet closed
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Designated state prosecutor Moshe Lador yet to decide whether to accept police recommendation to close case. ...
#74547 Justice Ministry to monitor guradians for wards of state
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Currently there is no oversight of guardians entrusted with the welfare of thousands of helpless people. ...
#74551 Fourth earthquake jolts Israel in two week period; no casualties
by Haaretz staff, AP in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Tremor felt in Jerusalem, Holon has Richter Scale magnitude of 4.0; epicenter north of the Dead Sea. ...
#74575 Labor to propose compensation for some W. Bank settlers who leave
by Mazal Mualem in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Barak: Labor bill would compensate residents of settlements east of the fence who decide to leave voluntarily. ...
#74581 Twelve-year-old Bedouin boy drowns in stream in Negev
by Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
More than 600 other children were unable to reach school because of stream flooding. ...
#74598 Jewish group gives candelabra to Catholic cardinal in interfaith gesture
by AP in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Candelabra is in memory of Jews killed in Holocaust; gesture meant to boost Jewish-Catholic relations. ...
#74601 NGO calls on state to fund care for cancer-stricken Sudan refugee
by Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
Mohammed Adam, 24, is receiving treatment for leukemia at the Ketziot prison where he is being housed. ...
#75034 When Jews and political money scandals collide
by Anshel Pfeffer in Ha'aretz, 2 December 2007
»The latest corruption affair in British politics, involving Labour's chief fundraiser Jon Mendelsohn and David Abrahams, who gave £600,000 to the Labour Party, is yet another in a
long series of scandals that have Jews at the heart of t ...
#74593 Troops invade Nablus, two refugee camps and abduct one resident
by IMEMC staff in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 2 December 2007
»Israeli forces invaded on Sunday at dawn the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Balata and Al Ein refugee camps near the city, and abducted one youth. Local sources reported that dozens of
military vehicles invaded the city and its refugee ca ...
#74923 Two arrested in Budrus incursion
by STW contributor in Stop the Wall, 2 December 2007
Occupation forces on Monday ran amok in Budrus, West Ramallah, after they were pelted with stones by youths defending the village.
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#74548 Peace Summit: 'If these talks fail, we will all be in deep trouble'
by Donald Macintyre in The Independent, 2 December 2007
»The Mansours were poor even when they had work. But Wael says the family could eat meat or chicken four days a week, and fish on the other three; now they have a little meat on only one
day, with rice and lentils the rest of the time. "When w ...