The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
IDF fires Artillery Against Kassam Launch Sites
Explosive Device Hurled at IDF in Nablus
IDF Arrests 9 Palestinian Fugitives in West Bank
IDF Troops Shoot, Wound Palestinian Near Nablus
IDF Arrests Six Palestinian Infiltrators
Firebombs Hurled at Motorists in Samaria
Armed Arab Apprehended at Hawara Checkpoint
IDF Cannons Pound Kassam Launch Sites
IDF Continues Artillery Barrage on North Gaza
IDF Arrests 5 Palestinians in W. Bank Operations
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Here’s an assignment for Tzipi Livni’s Foreign Ministry: to make sure that in the next five years, the CEOs of all the Fortune 500 companies, the 100 presidents of the most prestigious universities, the heads of the most important research institutions and key artists and writers visit Israel; and to ensure that they leave here with joint projects, research plans and plots for new novels. It is possible that they’ll need an encouraging word from their congressman to get them on their planes. But Israel has nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to what it has to offer America, especially when compared to its Arab neighbors. And it will benefit from the closer ties to the most developed economy and educational system in the world. Olmert should think about this, and not only about the list of handouts he’ll ask for from Bush, when he goes to America next month.
Olmert’s Vacation Ruins Neighbors’ Holiday
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Residents of a moshav in the Galilee complained Thursday night that Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s choice of the moshav as a vacation spot for his family ruined their Passover holiday. One resident reported that in the early morning hours, noisy trucks began unloading equipment for security walls and electronic equipment. One news source noted that the house where he was vacationing operated without a business permit.
Peretz: $1,000 Minimum Wage is a Deal Breaker
Olmert Faces Opposition to Lieberman
Probe May Prevent Lieberman Appointment
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The fact of the matter is that despite the media spin’s, Olmert’s not having an esy time of it with coalition-building. This author remebers Chaim Ramon’s boast just after elections that Kadima will have a coalition gov’t in place by Pesach. Well fans, the Pesach Seder has come and gone and Olmert is still struggling. It’s not easy when all of the characters are as crooked as the day is long. Dishonesty, duplicity, lack of trustworthiness and integrity cuts both ways! MB
Murder Traced to Jerusalem Land Sale
This report is a follow-up adding a few new details to the previous report.
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Police believe an eastern Jerusalem resident whose body was found in Jericho was murdered for selling his property to Jews.
According to police, the victim was shot seven times, apparently for selling his property in the predominately Arab-controlled eastern capital to Jews for a sum of $1.5 million. According to a Galei Tzahal (Army) Radio report, land in Abu Dis was sold to Jews seeking to resettle Arab portions of the capital.
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Dear Friends of Israel:
Like most of you, I am frustrated, angry and depressed over the actions of the Israeli government. We must, however, get over the depression and then use our anger to spur ourselves to greater action on behalf of Israel. EIN BREIRA. In that spirit I offer the following chant or song to sing at demonstrations (slightly abridged from the popular song sung at Passover). Sing the traditional Dayanu, and then the new resistence against the deportation of Jews from Eretz Yisrael Dayanu. Please distribute to your friends for their family Seder this year as widely as possible:..……..With Love of Israel
A MUST READ! Olmert Has No Gov’t Without Shas and Agudat Yisrael!, by Hillel Fendel
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“Agudah [United Torah Judaism] is already practically in the government,” they say in Shas, “so why shouldn’t we go in as well?”
“Ehud Olmert can form a government without us,” they say in Agudah, “so let’s at least try to save what we can.”
Wrong! The claim that Olmert has already practically completed forming his convergence-uprooting-expulsion government, and that the hareidi-religious parties are merely an “extra”, is a lie – and if we allow it to go unchallenged, we are liable to find ourselves with tens of thousands more homeless Jews and a bunch of excuses from the religious parties.
92 Percent of Israelis Jews At Seder
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A radio survey has revealed that 92 percent of Israeli Jews will celebrate the Passover holiday Wednesday evening with the traditional Seder and that two-thirds will read the entire Haggadah, which recounts the Jews’ slavery in Egypt and their redemption.
More than two-thirds of the respondents also said they eat only Kosher for Passover foods during the seven-day holiday even though almost 44 percent of them described themselves as secular.
Will most Israelis even understand the deeper significance of the Seder, of the Haggadah? MB
IDF Thwarts Pesach Terror Attack
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For the first time since disengagement, IDF troops entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday in search of explosives devices they feared had been planted along the security fence.
An IDF engineering entered Gaza near the Kissufim Crossing after on Tuesday night, just as most of the country was sitting down for their Pesach Seder, two terrorists armed with grenades and automatic rifles tried infiltrating into Israel nearby. Led by Col. Moni Katz – commander of Northern Gaza Brigade – the troops entered 50 meters into Gaza and after several hours left after verifying that no bombs had been planted along the fence.