Litzman Tries to Alibi Away UTJ’s Role in Expulsion from Gush Katif, Shomron …

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MK Litzman: UTJ Objects to Olmert’s Convergence Plan

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In an interview with Arutz Sheva Radio today, Knesset Member Yaakov Litzman of United Torah Judaism said that his party objects to the Convergence Plan put forward by Ehud Olmert and Kadima. As for the UTJ’s membership in the Sharon administration, which carried out the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria, Litzman says that it came about only after it was clear that the plan was to be carried out with or without their membership in the coalition. UTJ only joined the government in an attempt to reverse the effect the ultra-secularist Shinui party had on the internal affairs of the nation. read more

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Perhaps Kleiner Went About It In the Wrong Way?

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Mazuz: Probe Herut for Incitement

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Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz has ordered police to investigate the Herut Party on suspicion it incited to racism in a campaign poster during the recent elections.

The poster, which was displayed on passenger buses, shows a veiled woman and the words, “Demography will poison us.” The party, led by former MK Michael Kleiner, advocates encouraging Israeli Arabs to leave the country by offering them money.

Awawdy Baker, director general of the Haifa-based Center for the Struggle against Racism, submitted a complaint to the head of the Central Elections Committee, Supreme Court Justice Dorit Beinish, on March 16. He said the matter had been brought to his attention by a religious Arab woman who had seen the ad on an Egged bus in Haifa. read more

Olmert Officially Interim Prime Minister

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Cabinet Names Ehud Olmert Interim Prime Minister

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Ehud Olmert, who has been serving as acting prime minister for over three months, was named as interim prime minister, as of midnight Friday. The decision was reached in a special Cabinet meeting after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was unanimously declared “permanently unable to exercise his duties.”

This signalled an end to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s premiership, 100 days after he suffered his incapacitating stroke on January 4. read more

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Source Close to President Bush: President Ready to Free Pollard Upon Olmert’s Request …

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Esther Pollard: Bush is Willing to Free Pollard This Week

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Jonathan Pollard’s wife Esther said this morning that U.S. President Bush is ready to free the imprisoned Israeli – but that Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert has to make the request.

Speaking on Channel Two’s Monday morning television talk program, Esther Pollard said, “Someone who is very close to President Bush came to me last night and said that Bush is ready to free Jonathan even in time for the upcoming Passover holiday [which starts Wednesday night] – as long as Olmert makes an official request.” read more

“PA (sic) Business Owes Israel Hundreds of Millions of Shekels …

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PA Businessmen Owe Hundreds of Millions of Shekels to Israeli Industry

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Arab businessmen from the Palestinian Authority owe Israeli factories and businesses hundreds of millions of shekels of unpaid bills, according to Yoram Bilizovsky, head of Israel’s Industrialists Union.

Bilizovsky make his statement ahead of a cabinet meeting that will discuss the issue of unpaid debts owed by PA Arabs to Israelis in the private sector.

Bilizovsky called on the government to offset the debts of PA Arabs against the hundreds of millions of shekels of import taxes Israel collects for the PA at its ports. Israel has been withholding the transfer of such monies to the PA in protest over the inauguration of the new Hamas government. read more

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Will Olmert’s Expulsion Plans Jeopardize Forming Coalition, or Is This Just More Posturing?

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UTJ: Sages to Rule if West Bank Withdrawal is an Obstacle or Not

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The United Torah Judaism ultra-Orthodox faction completed its first round of coalition talks with Kadima on Monday, and its legislators expressed their satisfaction with negotiations.

Party negotiators MKs Moshe Gafni, Ya’akov Litzman and Menachem Porush said they came out of the negotiations with the impression that Kadima wants them to join the government, and that they believe all the disagreements would be resolved. read more

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