1: Electronic Intifada 2: Ha'aretz 3: IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center) 4: New York Daily News 5: Stop the Wall 6: The Guardian 7: The Independent
#77196 No rights, little mercy
by Mohammed Omer in Electronic Intifada, 22 January 2008
GAZA CITY, 21 January (IPS) - Seventy-six-year-old Mustapha al-Jamal goes door to door, looking for help in find ...
#77159 Israel lifts aid ban on Gaza Strip for one day
by News Agencies, Yuval Azoulay, Mazal Mualem in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Vowing not to allow a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, but blaming Hamas for the current situation, Israel agreed yesterday to allow some fuel and medicine shipments into the besieged territory.
The decision followed growing international ...
#77160 Nasrallah reopens bereaved family's wounds
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
News that Hezbollah has a dog tag belonging to First Sergeant Ron Mashiach, 33, who was killed in the Second Lebanon War, has reopened wounds his family is struggling to heal.
Hezbollah Chairman Hassan Nasrallah has claimed his group has remains o ...
#77161 Israel unfairly singled out by UN, says Dutch FM
by Cnaan Liphshiz in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
»Visiting Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen told Haaretz yesterday that the singling out of Israel for criticism in international forums was unfair. "It is not acceptable to focus on
Israel time after time, while other countries like Suda ...
#77162 On the boardwalk: Because there won't be any room left on the beach, Greens say
by Yigal Hai in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Tel Aviv's Planning and Construction Subcommittee is set to decide tomorrow whether to accept an environmental group's petition against the municipality's plan to expand the seaside promenade.
The Green Forum, an umbrella organizati ...
#77163 Israel concerned by push to give PA control of crossings
by Barak Ravid in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
There is growing concern in Israel that the recent tightening of sanctions against the Gaza Strip will result in international pressure to transfer control of the border crossings into the Strip to the Palestinian Authority.
PA Prime Minister Sala ...
#77164 'The cold keeps the food from going bad'
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Gaza Strip residents yesterday moved from worrying about the electricity cuts of the previous 40 hours to worrying about a water shortage. The municipality needs electricity to bring water to homes and the houses need it to pump water to the roof tan ...
#77165 Siege on Gaza / Paying the price
by Avi Issacharoff in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Defense Ministry officials yesterday pointed with satisfaction at the low number of Qassam rockets launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip in the past few days. Here was proof of the wisdom of Defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision last weekend t ...
#77166 Germany criticizes Austrian trade ties with Iran
by Benjamin Weinthal in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Top German officials, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have recently criticized Austria's commercial ties with Iran and its opposition to tighter sanctions on the Islamic republic, according to a source with ties to the Berlin governme ...
#77167 Israel launches sophisticated spy satellite TECSAR
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Israel yesterday launched a new sophisticated satellite, the TECSAR, which could boost its intelligence gathering capabilities regarding Iran.
The satellite, manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), was sent into orbit from the Srihariko ...
#77168 Official: Jerusalem construction tenders beyond Green Line now need prime minister's approval
by Nadav Shragai in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
The Housing Ministry has stopped publishing tenders for state construction in Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the Green Line without the prime minister's approval, a Housing Ministry official told a Knesset panel yesterday.
The panel - a sub-c ...
#77169 Study: Most Israeli adolescents say they have gambled
by Ofri Ilani in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Almost 80 percent of Israeli adolescents say they have gambled, according to a recently completed study.
Dr. Belle Gavriel-Fried (M.S.W., Tel Aviv University) said the findings indicated that the gambling was associated, among other things, with e ...
#77170 Man beaten as religious tension in B. Shemesh escalates
by Daphna Berman in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
An American immigrant was attacked and beaten in Beit Shemesh by a gang of ultra-Orthodox zealots, in what appears to be an escalation of tension between religious groups in the city. T., who is himself ultra-Orthodox, was kicked, beaten and threaten ...
#77171 Dorner: We seek to help survivors, not cast blame
by Anshel Pfeffer in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
The purpose of the state commission of inquiry into the government's treatment of Holocaust survivors is to propose ways to offer them immediate assistance, and not to find those responsible for their neglect, the committee's chair Dalia Do ...
#77172 Shoah probe / The clock is ticking
by Anshel Pfeffer in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Even before the commission into the treatment of Holocaust survivors has met, its chair, former Supreme Court justice Dalia Dorner, has cleared its path of potential trouble spots. By focusing on drawing up operative suggestions to provide solutions ...
#77173 Here comes the sun, Little Eilot: Region pins energy hopes on solar collectors
by Zafrir Rinat in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
The Eilot region, at the southeastern edge of Israel, is likely to become the first part of the country, along with the city of Eilat, that is not dependent on polluting energy resources. Instead of oil- or coal-fired power plants, the region's ...
#77174 As daring as James Bond and only a boy
by Haim Handwerker in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
NEW YORK - Anthony Horowitz has created a 14-year-old version of James Bond. His name is Alex Rider, he is recruited by MI6, the British secret service, and does the dirty work of fighting international organized crime. He always gets the job done. ...
#77175 Duet for father and daughter
by Roni Dori in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
"I have wanted to be a dancer for as long as I can remember. My father never pushed me to do this," says Danielle Ohn, 21, a dancer in the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and the daughter of Haim Ohn, one of the founding dancers of the Bat Sheva t ...
#77176 No problems were resolved
by Haaretz editorial writer in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
The senior professors' strike, which lasted more than 80 days, has ended, and the lecturers have improved wages to show for it. They got what they should have, to compensate for the salary erosion of the past decade; the pity is that it took so ...
#77177 Whining is the enemy
by Yoel Marcus in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
When Maariv hit the newsstands on Friday with banner headlines announcing a "special project," the paper wasn't promoting a raffle or prize-winning sweepstakes. The special was a feature on "bereavement and failure."
The families of 33 soldie ...
#77178 The company commanders' outcry
by Ari Shavit in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
The dozens of company commanders who sent a warning letter yesterday to the prime minister are not all cut from the same cloth. Among them are residents of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Haifa and Modi'in, Kiryat Ono, Gedera and Eli. Among them are hig ...
#77179 Brain power, not power games
by Yaron Ezrachi in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
The longest senior faculty strike in Israel's history laid bare the Finance Ministry's failure to counteract the faculty's influence on the management of the universities.
The senior faculty's uprise against the universities&#x ...
#77180 Where did good sense go?
by Nehemia Shtrasler in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Finance Minister Roni Bar-On must feel pretty bad today. While he told the press that the agreement ending the senior faculty strike "is an important and responsible agreement," these words are only for PR purposes. At the Treasury they tell the trut ...
#77181 Ma'ayan and Einav against oppression
by Yair Sheleg in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
The Yehuda Scout troop at Kfar Adumim in the West Bank, not far from Jerusalem, were engaged in a usual activity when scout leader Ma'ayan Omer mentioned the horrors of the Holocaust. One of the scouts asked whether there were similar horrors in ...
#77182 Create-as-you-go rituals abound in the U.S.
by Shmuel Rosner in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - The original plan was to go see the mezuzah, but Professor Vanessa Ochs explained it was removed from the doorpost long ago. It's probably on a shelf somewhere, gathering dust. Anyway, what's there to see? Nothing but ...
#77185 Eilot Region pins energy hopes on solar collectors
by Zafrir Rinat in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Eilat likely to become first Israeli city that is not dependent on polluting energy resources. ...
#77186 Green Forum petitions against plan to expand Tel Aviv's promenade
by Yigal Hai in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Tel Aviv's Planning and Construction Subcommittee set to decide Wednesday whether to accept environmental group's petition. ...
#77188 Tel Aviv stocks, eyeing world crashes, open to sharp losses
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Major indices down nearly 4% in Tel Aviv; Real Estate index has lost 21 percent since first of year. ...
#77189 Virtual trees: JNF takes planting online for Tu B'Shvat in shmita
by Ariel Zilber in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Trees to be planted after Jewish agriculture sabbatical year; JNF stresses holiday's environmental benefits. ...
#77198 Israeli film Beaufort nominated for Oscar for Best Foreign Film
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Movie depicts experiences of IDF troops at Beaufort post in southern Lebanon proior to Israel's 2000 withdrawal. ...
#77199 Justice Min. asked to pardon ex-Gaza settlers who defied IDF decree
by Mijal Grinberg, Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Local deputy tells Justice Minister hundreds of evacuees can't find work due to criminal record. ...
#77203 High Court suggests compromise on buses segregating men, women
by Yuval Yoaz, Reuters in Ha'aretz, 22 January 2008
Court gives state 30 days to form a panel to study influence of 'mehadrin' bus routes. ...
#77190 Israeli army kidnaps at least 14 Palestinians from Nablus
by Ameen Abu Wardeh in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 22 January 2008
»Israeli forces kidnapped at least 14 Palestinians from several areas in the northern West Bank city of Nablus in a pre-dawn invasion on Tuesday. Local sources reported that among the areas
attacked were the Balata and Askar refugee camps, and ...
#77200 Gaza: man dies of wounds sustained earlier in the week, while navy attacks fishermen
by Ghassan Bannoura in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 22 January 2008
»Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian man died on Tuesday morning due to wounds he sustained in Israeli army attacks on Sunday. The Islamic Jihad armed wing, Al Qudes
Brigades, stated that the man who died on Tuesday is a me ...
#131224 Bomb maker confesses to spray-painting swastikas around Brooklyn
by Alison Gendar, Matthew Lysiak, Tina Moore in New York Daily News, 22 January 2008
A bizarre Brooklyn bomb-maker was unveiled as a hatemonger Monday and charged with a spate of crimes that shook his neighborhood's Jewish community last fall, cops said.
Investigators were questioning Ivaylo Ivanov about seven pipe bombs they foun ...
#77202 Destruction of Life in Gaza - Stop the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people
by STW contributor in Stop the Wall, 22 January 2008
Read the statement against the siege on Gaza; a siege which denies Palestinians in the tiny walled-in Strip any form of humanity. It calls upon all that are mobilizing in occasion of the Global Day of Action on January 26 called by the WSF to take im ...
#77472 Occupation takes land from al-Quds University for new apartheid road
by STW contributor in Stop the Wall, 22 January 2008
»The Occupation has started destruction for a new segregated road that connects settlements in Jerusalem with those in the east of the city. The path of the road crosses Palestinian land, in
this instance leading to a seizure from al-Quds Univ ...
#77183 No light, no heat, no bread: stark reality for the powerless in Gaza
by Rory McCarthy in The Guardian, 22 January 2008
When it opened its doors seven years ago, the European Gaza hospital was one of the biggest foreign investments in the long-troubled Gaza Strip and one of the leading medical centres in the Palestinian territories. Yesterday, the 250-bed hospital was ...
#77195 Israel temporarily eases Gaza blockade
by Mark Tran, Agencies in The Guardian, 22 January 2008
#105005 Beyond the city limits
by Seth Freedman in The Guardian, 22 January 2008
#105006 Border protests over Gaza blockade
by Mark Tran in The Guardian, 22 January 2008
#77158 The poor and the sick suffer as Israel cuts power to Gaza
by Donald Macintyre in The Independent, 22 January 2008
»Mansour Rahal lay unconscious in the intensive care unit of Gaza City's Shifa hospital, linked to an electrically powered ventilator, the coloured monitor above his head showing his heart,
respiration and oxygen saturation rate. On Thursday l ...