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Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: July 4-7, 1997
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Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday, July 4, 1997
Arutz Sheva News Service
Friday, July 4, 1997 / Sivan 29, 5757
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. FRIDAY VIOLENCE RATED AVERAGE
2. PM: IDF WILL PURSUE TERRORISTS
3. LEVY CRISIS WANES
1. FRIDAY VIOLENCE RATED AVERAGE
Yesterday's meeting between the Rishon Letzion Chief Rabbi Bakshi-Doron and
the Mufti of Hevron does not seem to have had the desired effect. The
Rabbi condemned the Mohammed-pig poster, and the Mufti said that he would
attempt to calm the hostilities. Despite this, the violence in the city
erupted again today. Following the Friday prayers in the mosques, mobs of
Arabs began throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks at the residential
apartments in Beit Hadassah and Beit Schneersohn. The IDF is responding by
shooting tear gas, rubber bullets, and shock grenades (that explode
harmlessly, but with a very loud noise). The soldiers are chasing the
marauders up until very close to the border of the H-1
(Palestinian-controlled) area. A pipe bomb was thrown and exploded at the
same place where two soldiers were wounded earlier this week by a similar
explosive; this one caused no injuries.
The Hevron Jewish Community released a statement last night saying that the
"dance of apologies" concerning the anti-Mohammed poster should stop. The
Jews in Hevron noted that Arabs in Hevron try to kill Jews every day, and
"we are not expecting their leaders to apologize."
2. PM: IDF WILL PURSUE TERRORISTS
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has warned Yasser Arafat that if the mass
terror attacks resume, he is determined to mobilize IDF forces within the
autonomous areas and punish the perpetrators. So reported a senior
diplomatic source to our correspondent. The source pointed out that the
murderous violence of last Sukkot eve (September 1996) was halted when the
Prime Minister gave Arafat a similar ultimatum. Mr. Netanyahu said then
that if the violence does not stop within an hour, he will begin to employ
tanks against the Arabs. This occurred immediately after the Prime
Minister returned from a visit to Europe, at the peak of the violence. The
disturbances in fact tapered off as a result. The source added that the
Palestinian Authority acted against possible terror attacks this year only
because it knew that Israel would react very forcefully to such attacks.
Our correspondent further learned that the Prime Minister was angered with
senior IDF officers who have said recently that the threat of war with the
Arabs has increased. The Arabs, according to the source, are uninterested
and unable to begin a war against Israel at this time.
3. LEVY CRISIS WANES
Foreign Minister David Levy took part in today's Cabinet meeting. Sources
close to him, as well as those close to the Prime Minister, say that the
crisis between the two will apparently be resolved within a day or two.
The long-awaited round of ministerial appointments - Ariel Sharon to the
Finance Ministry, Moshe Katzav to Infrastructures, Michael Eitan to
Science, and Sylvan Shalom to Tourism - will therefore be presented before
the Knesset next week.
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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Sunday, July 6, 1997
Arutz Sheva News Service
Sunday, July 6, 1997 / Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5757
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. COMPANY COMMANDER KILLED IN LEBANON
2. YESHA RESIDENT DETAINED AND THREATENED BY PA POLICE
3. MORE GAZA TUNNELS FOUND, DESTROYED
4. PA HOLDS TWO ARABS FOR SELLING LANDS TO JEWS
5. TZOMET IN GUSH KATIF
6. EGYPTIAN PAPER: PA OUT OF TOUCH WITH MASSES
1. COMPANY COMMANDER KILLED IN LEBANON
An IDF officer from Kibbutz Sdei Eliyahu, 24-year old Maj. Nadav Milo,
was killed today in a Hizbullah terrorist attack in Southern Lebanon.
Fierce fighting followed the attack, and Israel Air Force planes and
helicopters attacked Hizbullah bases. Three Lebanese citizens were
injured in the attack. The bombing raid took place in the area of
Tufah, considered a Hizbullah stronghold.
2. YESHA RESIDENT DETAINED AND THREATENED BY PA POLICE
Shmuel Yosef, a resident of the Mateh Binyamin community of Nachaliel,
was nearly abducted by Palestinian police on Thursday night when he
lost his way and mistakenly entered Ramallah. He was able to make
radio contact with the Israeli security services, but was unable to
speak to them for fear that the Arabs would harm him. They surrounded
his car and pointed their guns at him. After repeated attempts by the
security services to make contact with the Jewish driver, one of the
Arab police finally grabbed the microphone, misrepresented himself as
an Israeli border guard policeman and implied that everything was
fine. At that point, they security services ceased their attempts to
help the Jewish driver. Mr. Yosef later recounted that only "miracle"
saved him, when a joint patrol happened to arrive on the scene and
rescued him. The security officer of the Binyamin Regional Council,
Avigdor Shatz, said that he is gravely concerned over what happened.
The IDF is reviewing the incident, in an effort to learn how to avoid
its recurrence.
3. MORE GAZA TUNNELS FOUND, DESTROYED
Four more underground tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip area
were recently discovered and destroyed this morning by the IDF. The
IDF suspects that the tunnels were used to smuggle weapons to Gaza and
wanted persons to Egypt. The tunnels, four meters underground and one
meter in width, allowed people to crawl through without difficulty.
IDF sources accuse the PA of sanctioning the digging of the tunnels.
The Arabs in Gaza have been digging such tunnels since the
Egypt-Israel peace agreement was signed, and they continue even now.
The sandy earth of Rafiah facilitates tunnel-digging, and each tunnel
is more advanced than the one before it. The IDF conducts
tunnel-search operations from time to time, using modern tracking and
drilling methods.
4. PA HOLDS TWO ARABS FOR SELLING LANDS TO JEWS
The Palestinian police of Bethlehem arrested four residents of the
Arab village Kfar Nahalin last week, on suspicion of having helped in
the sale of lands to Israelis. Two of them - aged 55 and 23,
respectively - are still being held in custody.
5. TZOMET IN GUSH KATIF
The Tzomet party leadership visited the Gush Katif community of Morag
this afternoon. At the same time, they planned to discuss the
possibility that the national elections will be advanced. MK Modi
Zandberg, party faction head, told Arutz-7 that the elections may very
well take place as early as next summer. He said that the present
government is the best there is for the nationalist camp, and that
everything should be done in order to prevent its fall.
6. EGYPTIAN PAPER: PA OUT OF TOUCH WITH MASSES
IMRA reports on the following excerpt from a recent article in the
English-language Egyptian paper Al-Ahram Weekly: "Despite the
tension, the protest at Morag has an orchestrated feel, led and
controlled by the PA. The tents are sponsored by the PA's Sports and
Youth Ministry, the PA's National Guidance Committee and the PLO's
veterans of the Palestinian Revolution. Between them mingle
khaki-clad officers from the PA's police or National Security forces.
The masses are conspicuous in their absence [partly because the PA
does not want a mass confrontation, but also because]... "We have
recognized the game," says Kamal, a Palestinian from Dir Al-Balah.
"In September, Gaza lost 31 people in the confrontations. For what?
For nothing. The protest in Morag is to polish the PA's prestige.
It's not coming from the people."... Three years after Yasser
Arafat's return to the Gaza Strip, the preoccupation among most
Palestinians is less the national struggle against Israel than the
more basic struggle for social and economic survival.
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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Monday, July 7, 1997
Arutz Sheva News Service
Monday, July 7, 1997 / Tammuz 2, 5757
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. NE'EMAN TO BE APPOINTED FINANCE MINISTER
2. ARCH-TERRORIST SENTENCED IN MILITARY COURT
3. INSIDE THE KNESSET
4. NEGOTIATIONS MAY RESUME SOON
5. MORE ARAB VIOLENCE
6. RABBIS MUST CONDEMN ALL CASES OF DESECRATION
7. EASING OF ENTRY RESTRICTIONS
8. ESCAPEE RETURNS TO CELL
9. FORMER MK FOUND GUILTY
1. NE'EMAN TO BE APPOINTED FINANCE MINISTER
Shai Bazak, Prime Minister Netanyahu's media advisor, officially
announced the appointment of Professor Yaacov Ne'eman as Minister of
Finance. In the announcement it was stated that Professor Ne'eman
agreed to return to the government, after previous refusals, at the
repeated requests of the prime minister and public figures. However,
disagreement between MKs Silvan Shalom and Michael Eitan concerning
the Ministry of Science portfolio is holding up the Ne'eman's
appointment. Professor Ne'eman told an Arutz Sheva correspondent a
short while ago that it is not yet completely clear that he will in
fact be the next Finance Minister. He explained that the source of
the delay was the friction in the Likud concerning the expected
cabinet reshuffle. Prof. Ne'eman, who was forced to resign from his
position as Justice Minister because of false allegations against him,
is considered an international expert in economic law and served as
Director-General of the Finance Ministry in the early 1980's.
The announcement from the Prime Minister's Office also stated that the
Prime Minister will, from time to time, consult with Foreign Minister
David Levy and Minister of National Infrastructures Ariel Sharon in
matters of state and security. Before accepting the post, Professor
Ne'eman consulted with Minister Ariel Sharon who congratulated him on
his decision to return to the government as Finance Minister.
2. ARCH-TERRORIST SENTENCED IN MILITARY COURT
Terrorist Hassan Salameh, who commanded the bombings of the two number
18 buses in Jerusalem and the attack in Ashkelon fifteen months ago,
was sentenced today to forty-six life sentences and an additional 20
years imprisonment. One of the three judges in the military court
panel sentenced Salameh to death, despite the fact that the
prosecution, in accordance with orders received from the highest
government echelons, did not demand the death sentence. The same
judge rhetorically asked: "If Salameh's case does not warrant capital
punishment, what else needs to happen for the death sentence to be
imposed?"
The first attack under Salameh's command was on February 25, 1996
(Adar 5, 5756) near Jerusalem's central bus station. A terrorist
detonated an explosive of over 10 kilograms on a crowded number 18 bus
killing 26 and wounding 51. Less than a half an hour later on the
same day, a second suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus
stop in Ashkelon claiming the life of one soldier and wounding 38
other soldiers and civilians. On March 3rd (Adar 12), a week later
almost to the minute, a third attack shook Israel when an Arab suicide
terrorist detonated a heavy explosive inside the number 18 bus in the
center of Jerusalem, killing 19 people and wounding nine others. The
head of the panel of military judges, Colonel Ilan Katz, read aloud
the names of each of the 46 victims of Salameh's slaughters.
3. INSIDE THE KNESSET
The Knesset faction of the NRP demanded a short while ago to meet with
the Minister of Defense to discuss the issue of building permits in
Hevron. The NRP hinted that his response on this matter will affect
their vote in the Knesset on the cabinet reshuffle. Prime Minister
Netanyahu met with his predecessor Yitzchak Shamir this afternoon, in
an effort to reach a reconciliation between them. Shamir had
expressed sharp criticism of Netanyahu following the resignation of
Dan Meridor as Finance Minister.
4. NEGOTIATIONS MAY RESUME SOON
Minister of Defense Yitzchak Mordechai will meet with Nabil Sha'ath of
the Palestinian Authority this evening. The meeting is an additional
indication that within a few weeks Israel will implement a significant
political move in an attempt to salvage the Oslo negotiations. The
Minister of Defense and MK Aryeh Deri have hinted at such a
possibility, as has President Ezer Weizman. The Prime Minister
reported last night on the expected move to the president.
5. MORE ARAB VIOLENCE
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on an Israeli Border Police vehicle
last night on the Bethlehem bypass road, not far from the village of
El-Hader. The soldiers returned fire. Later it was discovered that
the gunmen escaped through territories under the control of the
Palestinian Authority in Bethlehem. Further south, five firebombs were
hurled at Israeli cars on the Halhul bypass road near Hevron. No
injuries were reported in either of the incidents.
6. RABBIS MUST CONDEMN ALL CASES OF DESECRATION
Rabbi Ratzon Arussi, a member of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate
has requested that the Chief Rabbis condemn attacks by Moslems on
symbols and rites sacred to Judaism. Rabbi Arussi writes in his
appeal, that just as the Chief Rabbis condemned the anti-Mohammed
leaflets in Hevron, they should have also vehemently protested the
stoning of Jews praying at the Western Wall and the desecration of the
Torah scrolls at the Yeshiva in Shechem earlier this year. The rabbi
also expressed his concern that the outpouring of apologies to the
Moslems from Israel may have adverse security implications.
7. EASING OF ENTRY RESTRICTIONS
Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai and IDF Chief of Staff Amnon
Lipkin-Shahak approved today the easing of entrance restrictions from
Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (Yesha) to Israel. Amongst the new
guidelines is the lowering of the age of married workers allowed to
enter Israel from 27 to 25. Easing of the conditions of the closure
is part of the defense establishment's strategy that better economic
conditions for the Yesha Arabs will make it more difficult for Arafat
to mobilize masses for riots like the ones in Hevron.
8. ESCAPEE RETURNS TO CELL
Ibrahim Ranimat, the terrorist who escaped last week from his
Palestinian jail in Hevron, is again in prison. The Palestinians
claim that Ranimat surrendered to Palestinian forces this morning.
9. FORMER MK FOUND GUILTY
Former Labor MK Yossi Vanunu was convicted yesterday of bribery, fraud
and breach of trust. The Be'er Sheva District Court found Vanunu
guilty of giving bribes in order to consolidate his position in local
government. The court will pass sentence on Vanunu at a later date.
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