• Regarding US State Department hesitancy to recognize Arafat\'s direct involvement in the arms shipment seized by IDF commandos on Thursday, ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: \"The State Department\'s position is completely at odds with President Bush\'s declared policy of \'zero tolerance\' for terrorism and sponsors of terrorism. We urge Bush\'s State Department to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence that Arafat and the PA are the sponsors of the ship of terror, and that Arafat\'s PA is a terrorist regime with which the U.S. should have no relations.\"

  • Technical problems at Bezeq Phone Company resulted in the crash of the nationwide ADSL Internet connectivity service early this afternoon. Bezeq officials said that the problem should take at least several hours to repair.