David Grossman jotted down bumper sticker slogans - like this one, "How much evil can we swallow?" - to compile the lyrics for a popular hip-hop song.
haaretz 5/31/2004 The High Court of Justice on Monday ruled that the Law of Return applies to those who decide to convert to Judaism while already living in Israel. However, the court deferred ruling on whether to recognize non-Orthodox conversions conducted in Israel, ordering the state to present its position on this questions within 45 days.
maariv international 5/30/2004 As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is trying to win a government majority to back his second disengagement plan, Yesha (Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip) settlers plan on countering his actions.
maariv international 5/30 2004 In his first interview since being released from Prison, nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu said he was disappointed and upset over being accused of committing treason. "I felt they just wanted to get their revenge on me", said Vanunu during the interview with the BBC, adding that he wanted to save the State of Israel from another holocaust.
Jerusalem Report 5/19/2004 Tel Aviv’s Cinematheque is packed with an audience of grizzled rockers, dreadlocked teens and trendy urbanites. I’m here for the debut screening of "Blues on the Beach", a documentary about Mike’s Place, the seaside bar hit in a terrorist attack, killing three people exactly one year ago today. The film about the Anglo-friendly venue - boasting cute staff, live music and much dancing on tables - was begun well before the bar was devastated by British suicide bomber Asif Hanif, whose accomplice’s family is currently on trial in the U.K. for its alleged involvement.
JTA 5/19/2004 If Israel already has one foot out of Gaza, the other appears to be digging in deeper. After losing 13 soldiers to Palestinian militants last week in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces mounted counterterrorist operations this week to ferret out terrorists, widen the security zone near the southern Gazan refugee camp of Rafah and uncover arms-smuggling tunnels between Rafah and Egypt. The operations left more than 35 Palestinians dead, wounded scores of others and leveled numerous Palestinian homes.
Jerusalem Post 5/19/2004 The eastern wall of Jerusalem's Temple Mount is in danger of immediate collapse, which could cause a 'domino effect' and bring down other sections of ancient compound, the head of the Israel Antiquities Authority Shuka Dorfman said Tuesday. The rare public warning, made at a meeting of the Knesset's Interior Committee, came one month after a team of senior Egyptian and Jordanian engineers began to carry out tests to determine the stability of the eastern wall.
Ha'aretz A few hours before the Israeli Arab Bnei Sakhnin soccer squad was to take the field against Hapoel Haifa for the State Cup late Tuesday, a Haifa resident telephoned a call-in program on the regional A-Shams radio station. "Bnei Sakhnin should keep away from the game," he warned. The Sakhnin team must not "endanger itself" by showing up for a contest that could bring it a national symbol of the State of Israel, the caller declared, and from the president, yet. The next caller, speaking in an emotional tone, attacked the Haifa fan. "We're proud that our team is competing for the State Cup."
Jerusalem Post 5/5/2004 Now it's time to start looking forward to the Israeli Emmys, or the awarding of the prizes of the Israeli Acad-emy for Movies and Television in the Area of Television Production, as its organizers would prefer you to refer to it. This year's ceremony will take place on June 2 at the Heichal Hapayis Auditorium for Culture and Art in Petah Tikva, so circle the date.
Ha'aretz Ariel Sharon is not a man who can comfortably abide the status quo - even a status quo that he himself created. For Sharon, this week was one that was to have spurred an entire new Israeli political constellation, a new Middle East reality - that is, the foundation of a new status quo - through a radical assault on the beliefs of two of the institutions that most indelibly bear Sharon's stamp: the Likud and the settlement movement.
JTA 4/26/2004 It’s the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day, Yom Ha’Zikaron, and also the day Omri Atzmon was born 51 years ago. But it’s the smooth, smiling face of a 21-year-old, a flop of dark hair covering his forehead, that stares out of Atzmon’s framed photographs: The face never changes. Atzmon, a member of an elite special forces team, was killed on the ninth day of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, deep in the Sinai Desert. Egyptian artillery fire landed on Atzmon’s armored vehicle, killing him and eight crew members.
Ma'ariv The May 1 accession of ten Eastern European and Mediterranean countries to the EU, will establish it as Israel’s largest trade partner in the world. As Cyprus joins the EU this weekend, the distance between Israel and the European Union shortens to only 200 km (130 miles). EU is the market for one third of Israeli exports and the source of 40% of imports to Israel.
Jerusalem Post With all four teams on the ground, and thousands of fans and journalists landing Wednesday and Thursday ahead of the Euroleague Final Four, Israeli security has gone into overdrive. No less than 3,500 personnel from the police and security forces are being deployed as part of the security plan that Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball chairman Shimon Mizrahi presented to the Euroleague Board last month as part of the efforts to keep the event in Tel Aviv.
Ha'aretz Special Report
JTA 4/18/2004 The handshakes, smiles and deals are beginning to return to Israel´s high- tech shores. Venture capital investors are back in Israel shopping for the next big thing and Israeli start-ups are feeling the welcome buzz of momentum as the tide has begun to shift following three hard years of a global economic downturn compounded by the Palestinian intifada.
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