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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:40:51 +0300
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. NETANYAHU MEETS KING HUSSEIN IN JORDAN
2. STORMY AND MULTI-FACETED KNESSET DEBATE
3. TWO FUNERALS
4. ARAB TERROR STRIKES TOURISTS
5. PM CALLS OFF POLICE RAID ON ARUTZ-7
6. MERETZ MK IN FAVOR OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH - FOR PALESTINIAN RADIO
7. FIVE BUILDINGS RAZED
8. PA DRILLING FOR WATER
9. EL AL WINS CASE IN HOLLAND
1. NETANYAHU MEETS KING HUSSEIN IN JORDAN
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister David Levy, and
Minister of National Infrastructures Ariel Sharon met this morning in Aqaba
with King Hussein of Jordan. At a joint Netanyahu-Hussein press conference
following the talks, King Hussein said that the situation is "dangerous,"
but that he is convinced that Prime Minister Netanyahu wants the peace
process to work. Mr. Netanyahu said that the peace process is at a
standstill, "not caused by Israel." He said that he was very happy to
cooperate with the Jordanians, and that he wishes the Palestinians would
cooperate to the same extent as the Jordanians. The Prime Minister further
said that he would ease the sanctions against the Palestinians in direct
relation to the real actions against the terrorist networks taken by Arafat.
2. STORMY AND MULTI-FACETED KNESSET DEBATE
The Knesset again broke off their recess today, and held a stormy session
dealing with a number of issues. Most prominent among the topics discussed
today were the Israeli-Arab contingent visiting in Syria, the Supreme Court
decision ordering the Netanyah religious council to include a Reform
representative, and the bombing in Machaneh Yehuda and the consequential
sanctions against the Palestinian Authority.
MK Rehavam Ze'evi (Moledet) sharply criticized the Israeli-Arab delegation
currently visiting in Syria. He expressed amazement at the governmental
permission granted to Israeli citizens to visit an enemy country. Ze'evi
also attacked the delegation itself for its strong criticism of Israel and
in favor of the Arab right of return. An editorial in Yediot Acharonot
today likened the delegation to "people who have suddenly lost their heads,
their Israeli civil identity and their political senses," and wrote that
the visit "recalls the visits which delegations of the western socialist
Left made to Stalin's Soviet Union."
Regarding the religious councils, Interior Minister Eli Suissa and MK Aryeh
Deri, both of Shas, said today that the Prime Minister had promised them to
work towards the passage of a law that would ensure that Reform Jews would
not be able to be appointed to religious councils. MK Chanan Porat of the
National Religious Party said today at a meeting of his party Knesset
faction that he is in favor of doing away with religious councils, in order
to decrease the friction between the religious and secular publics in
Israel. MK Rafi Elul of Labor has proposed that each municipality include
a religious-affairs department, in place of a religious council. NRP MK
Shmaryahu Ben-Tzur objected to the idea, saying that it would allow the
mayor of each city to decide how monies earmarked for religious purposes
would be spent.
During the debate about the security situation, Labor MK Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer said, "The only answer to terror is counter-terror. No
military expert will tell you otherwise."
3. TWO FUNERALS
Two victims of anti-Israeli violence were buried yesterday. Ali Aduryan,
49, of Kfar Adumim, passed away on Monday after he was mortally wounded in
the Machaneh Yehuda suicide-slaughter two weeks ago. Hundreds participated
in his funeral, and kaddish was said by his sons Noam and Assaf. He was
buried near Kfar Adumim resident Liat Zavitsky, who was killed three months
ago in Wadi Kelt by a terrorist. The death of Aduryan brings to 14 the
number of people killed in the bombing; 26 of the injured remain
hospitalized, including four in severe or critical condition. Hundreds
participated, too, in the funeral yesterday of Staff Sgt. Ronen Cohen, who
was killed in Lebanon this week He was buried in the military cemetery in
Moshav Kochav in the Lachish region.
4. ARAB TERROR STRIKES TOURISTS
A British tourist was murdered this morning near Mitzpeh Ramon by an Arab
from a village in northern Israel. The tourist and a woman companion
entered the murderer's car outside of Be'er Sheva, where they had been
waiting to hitchhike southwards to Eilat. At one point, the driver stopped
the car, shot the two passengers, and escaped towards the south; the woman,
who is listed in light to moderate condition, recounted the sequence of
events to the police. She said that they told the murderer that they were
planning to cross the border to Jordan, mentioning also the
Netanyahu-Hussein meeting, and that this seemed to rouse his anger. Later
this afternoon, another tourist was stabbed by two Arabs outside Damascus
Gate in Jerusalem; he was lightly wounded in the neck.
5. PM CALLS OFF POLICE RAID ON ARUTZ-7
Israel's Channel Two television news reported last night that the police
had planned to raid the Arutz-7 ship HaTzvi on the day before Tisha B'Av.
However, when Prime Minister Netanyahu learned of the intended raid, he
ordered it called off. Communications Minister Limor Livnat said last
night on the television report, "There is a public interest that there be
freedom of speech, and that there not be a 'shutting of mouths.'"
Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein released a directive today against
government ministry public service announcements on Arutz-7, and ordered a
police investigation into the station. He added that the way must be found
to ensure "a legal arrangement for Yesha regional radio." Haaretz
newspaper, usually known for its leftist leanings, published an editorial
today in which it wrote, "It is very difficult to avoid the impression that
the opponents of Radio Station 7 are looking for ways to silence it
forever. Legal formalistics is a tool of dubious validity in the
political-cultural debate being carried on now in Israel, and antiquated
legislation is no longer applicable in the constantly changing reality of
the late 1990s."
Arutz-7 Executive Director Yaakov Katz said today that there are many
unlicensed radio stations
operating throughout Israel today, whereas only Arutz-7 has made tremendous
efforts - financially and legally - to ensure that it does not violate
Israeli law. "We have spent almost ten million dollars over the past ten
years for the ship and other associated costs," said Katz. He said that
one woman in the State Attorney's office said openly many years ago that
she had made it her goal to "get" Arutz-7, and she has attempted in many
ways to have Arutz-7 shut down. "This woman instructed the police to raid
the boat, based on the false testimony of one policeman about an Arutz-7
broadcast that allegedly interfered with the control tower in Ben Gurion
airport. The controllers in the tower said they heard no such
interference, not to mention that the filters in the transmitters would
prevent our broadcasts from 'veering over' to the wrong frequencies. In
addition, it is very suspicious that these charges arose exactly at the
beginning of the Nine Days [before Tisha B'Av], when the police thought
that we would not be broadcasting and our ship would be docked for repairs
in Israel, making it a convenient target for a raid." Mr. Katz added that
when the Prime Minister heard about the impending raid, "he immediately
ordered the police to back down, saying, 'they're trying to topple me
again' - referring to the fact that if this operation had been pulled off,
it would have led to the toppling of the government."
6. MERETZ MK IN FAVOR OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH - FOR PALESTINIAN RADIO
Meretz MK Avraham Poraz appealed to the Supreme Court today against the
recent government decision to jam the inciteful broadcasts of Voice of
Palestine radio. Poraz claims that jamming the broadcasts is in violation
of international charters and principles of freedom of speech. The Knesset
subcommittee on economics held a session today dealing with the incitement
heard over Voice of Palestine.
7. FIVE BUILDINGS RAZED
The Jerusalem police are continuing their campaign against illegal
structures in the capital. Five more illegal buildings were razed this
morning in the northern Arab suburb of Shuafat. The owners of the
buildings were given the opportunity to appeal the demolition orders in the
courts, but none of them chose to do so. Another three buildings in
Shuafat are scheduled to be demolished in the coming days.
8. PA DRILLING FOR WATER
The PA is drawing water from the chief water reservoir of the coastal
plain, known as Yarkon-Taninim. The drilling began several days ago north
of Beit El, apparently with the approval of the Civil Administration of
Judea and Samaria, though against the objections of the Water Commission
and other local environmental bodies. Our correspondent Kobi Sela has
learned that the Palestinians continue to purposely pollute the coastal
plain ground waters by the introduction of sewage water from Ramallah and
El-Bireh, despite Israel's many protests.
9. EL AL WINS CASE IN HOLLAND
A court in Holland accepted the appeal of El Al Israel Airlines against a
recent decision to forbid the company from continuing to fly at night from
Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam.
El Al flies mainly cargo planes from Schiphol, and it was claimed that the
noise caused by the flights is very intrusive. The court accepted El Al's
explanations that the planes' engines are less noisy than the norm.
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