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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. TALKS STEP UP PACE
2. PA POLICE VIOLENTLY EVACUATE MONASTERY
3. EITAN AND SHALOM TO SHARE SCIENCE MINISTRY
4. NEW LEVY ROLE PLACES KLEINER IN DELICATE POSITION
5. IDF DEFENDS DAYAN
6. BOIM FAMILY SUES HANEGBI
7. GOLAN EVENT TONIGHT
8. THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF REBBE'S DEATH
9. 81 CHILDREN INJURED
10. LAU MEETS LEW
1. TALKS STEP UP PACE
Accelerated negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have
been underway for the past day and a half, with the active participation of
U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk. The main topics at issue are the Dahaniyeh
airport and the Gaza sea port. The talks are being led by Defense Minister
Yitzchak Mordechai and Nabil Sha'ath. A senior diplomatic source told our
correspondent that negotiations concerning the two additional scheduled
withdrawals in Yesha will also resume soon. The visit of Prime Minister
Netanyahu's political advisor Uzi Arad in Washington is connected to that
issue.
2. PA POLICE VIOLENTLY EVACUATE MONASTERY
The Palestinian Authority police burst into a monastery in Hevron on
Saturday morning, demanding that the premises be evacuated within 24 hours.
After the monks and nuns began to argue with them, the Palestinian police
began to beat them and drag them out by force. One of the nuns told
Arutz-7, "First they smashed doors and windows, then they beat us
brutally." Five monks and three nuns were injured, and one nun is
hospitalized. The monastery is the property of The Russian Orthodox Church
Outside of Russia, a legal church body incorporated in New York.
3. EITAN AND SHALOM TO SHARE SCIENCE MINISTRY
All of the pieces of the ministerial puzzle were finally put in place last
night. If there are no last-minute surprises, Prof. Yaakov Ne'eman will be
appointed Finance Minister, and the Science Ministry will be shared in
rotation by Michael Eitan and Sylvan Shalom. During the tenure of Eitan as
Science Minister - half of the time remaining until the elections - Shalom
will serve as Deputy Defense Minister, a position which is being filled for
the first time in this government. Ne'eman and Eitan will be sworn in
tomorrow.
Rabbi Avraham Ravitz (United Torah Judaism) told Arutz-7 today that he is
happy with the appointment of Ne'eman to the Finance Ministry. He said
that Ne'eman is the only Finance Minister in recent years to come to the
post with an economic background, noting that he once served as
Director-General of the Ministry. Ravitz said that the immediate challenge
facing Ne'eman is the preparation of the 1998 budget. He added that the
fact that Ne'eman is not a political figure can only help him in seeing the
"larger picture," as he is not beholden to certain sectors of the
population. When asked if the fact that Ne'eman is a religiously-observant
Jew makes him more appealing to the religious parties, Ravitz said,
"Sometimes a religiously-observant Jew is worse for us, because he first
tries to placate his critics who think that he is catering to the
religious. I don't think he should give the religious parties whatever
they ask for, but I hope that he won't be governed by what his critics say.
From what we saw in his short tenure in the Justice Ministry, I am
confident that he does not act that way."
4. NEW LEVY ROLE PLACES KLEINER IN DELICATE POSITION
Part of the agreement between the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister David
Levy specifies that the Coalition Chairman will be a member of Levy's
Gesher party. One of the leading candidates, MK Michael Kleiner, was asked
by Arutz-7's News Editor Haggai Segal whether he would take the job. His
answer: "Do you think that my position as head of the Knesset front for the
Land of Israel can go hand-in-hand with the job of coalition head? Or did
you think I would give up the Land of Israel front?... Just as you don't
think so, I also don't. No, I will not take the job of Coalition Chairman."
Haggai Segal then asked, "The fact that Levy is taking almost sole
responsibility for the negotiations with the Palestinians [according to the
Netanyahu-Levy agreement] is good for the Land of Israel or not so good?"
MK Kleiner said, "Look, the person responsible for negotiations in the name
of the State of Israel should be capable, experienced, and one who does not
waste resources on pointless arguments, nor [try to increase] admiration
for Israel with nonsense. From this standpoint, he is the perfect choice."
Undeterred, Segal asked, "Yes, but still and all, Levy is considered to be
a bit more dovish than others in the Likud..." Kleiner said, "... Look,
sometimes you have an agent who promises you a high price, but then he
collapses and gets you a very low price, while at other times, there can be
an agent who starts out with a bit lower price, but at least there is a
good chance that he can get it. David Levy is a Herut [the forerunner of
the Likud] man from the beginning, and I would like to believe that he will
not give in on our vital interests. True, there are some differences
between his approach and ours, but I believe and hope that we will be able
to overcome them."
"If he does give in, will the Land of Israel front make concessions for
him, because of the party link between you?" asked Haggai Segal. Kleiner
responded, "The Land of Israel front deals with issues that are much more
important, more fundamental, and more long-range than the personal
relations between individuals."
5. IDF DEFENDS DAYAN
The IDF has rejected the criticism of Kiryat Arba attorney Elyakim Haetzni
against O.C. Central Command Uzi Dayan. The IDF spokesman said that Dayan
is an excellent officer, all of whose time is dedicated to the protection
of the Jews in Judea and Samaria. Haetzni said yesterday, on his weekly
commentary show on Arutz-7, that Dayan has "tied a knot of strangulation
around the Yesha communities," with his various tactics delaying and
preventing the approval of building permits in the region. As examples,
Haetzni said that all of the relevant authorities have approved granting
Beit El the status of Local Council, except for Dayan, and that Dayan
caused the cancellation of the building of an entire new neighborhood in
Kiryat Sefer. Haetzni said that it was Dayan who initiated the evacuation
of the Yitzhar residents some weeks ago, and who is responsible for the
"life-threatening policies of restraint" currently in effect in Hevron.
Yesha Council Secretary-General Aharon Domb said that he agrees with most
of the remarks of Haetzni, though he would have expressed them differently.
6. BOIM FAMILY SUES HANEGBI
Supreme Court justices will hear a petition tomorrow against Justice
Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, filed by the family of David Boim. David was
killed last year by Arab terrorists, who are now being held in Palestinian
Authority custody. His family claims that Hanegbi has not acted to bring
about the extradition of the murderers.
7. GOLAN EVENT TONIGHT
The Golan Residents Committee denies the accusation by Labor MK Nissim
Zvilli that no Labor MKs were invited to the special commemoration event
tonight of 30 years of Golan settlement in the amphitheater in Caesaria.
Spokesman Uri Heitner said that all 120 MKs received invitations, but not
one Labor MK has as yet confirmed his participation. Singer Yehoram Gaon
and Cantor Dudu Fischer will perform at the event tonight.
8. THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF REBBE'S DEATH
Chabad Hassidim in Israel and throughout the world commemorated last night
the third anniversary of the death of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneersohn. Thousands of Chassidim gathered in Tel Aviv for a
rally at which Tourism Minister Moshe Katzav and Cabinet Secretary Danny
Naveh were also in attendance.
9. 81 CHILDREN INJURED
81 children were lightly injured this afternoon, and one other was
moderately injured, in a traffic accident outside Haifa. One bus crashed
into a truck that was stopped by the side of the road, and another bus then
crashed into them. All of the children are from the Arab day-camp in Kfar
Yasif in the Galilee. The highway was closed for over three hours as a
result of the accident.
10. LAU MEETS LEW
Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau will meet with the famous U.S. basketball star
Kareem Abdul Jabbar on Thursday. Jabbar, formerly named Lew Alcindor, who
converted to Islam some 20 years ago, said that his father, a U.S. Army
officer, met the future Chief Rabbi when the U.S. forces liberated the
Buchenwald concentration camp. Jabbar's father remembered the child very
fondly. Jabbar the son said that he sees it as a personal obligation to
meet the boy with whom his father became close and who became the Chief Rabbi.
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