The Knesset's Joint House and Law Committee approved a proposal requiring a national referendum be held before any territorial concessions are made within Israel's borders, including the Golan Heights and Jerusalem but not including Judea and Samaria.
-- Following the attack on three Jewish youths in Paris's 19th district, a group monitoring anti-Semitic incidents in France urged Paris's mayor to reinforce police in the area in view of the upcoming Jewish High Holidays. The group, called the Bureau of Vigilance against anti-Semitism, stressed the growing feeling of insecurity among Jews living in the district's Buttes de Chaumont area.
A similar attack occurred in the same area on June 22 when Rudy Haddad, a 17-year-old Jewish youth, was severely injured as he was leaving a nearby synagogue after Sabbath prayers.
-- Members of the 7,000-member Bnei Menashe community in northeastern India have released a CD called "Aliyah, Aliyah" in an attempt to gather support for their desire to immigrate to Israel. The Bnei Menashe members claim descent from the ancient Israelite tribe of Menashe (Manasseh), one of the 10 Lost Tribes exiled from the land of Israel by Assyrian conquerors 27 centuries ago.
Three Years Ago at IsraelNN
U.S. President George W. Bush told a group of military officers in Washington, "Radicals have declared their uncompromising hostility to freedom. It is foolish to think that you can negotiate with them." President Bush told his audience that history teaches that underestimating "the words of evil and ambitious men" is a tragic mistake. "We are a nation at war, and America and her allies are fighting this war with relentless determination across the world" against Muslim efforts "to establish [a] violent political utopia across the Middle East, which they call a Caliphate."
--Hizbullah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah has told a Lebanese newspaper, "If we have to choose between a foolish prime minister and another who is strong and capable, we prefer that the fool remain." Nasrallah declared that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's "victory" in the war against Hizbullah terrorists was putting the terrorist leader in a bunker.