Four border police are suspected of stealing about 1,000 shekels from PA residents at a Tul Karem checkpoint on Friday. The border policemen involved have admitted to the accusations. Officials are now searching for the victims to return the stolen money to them.
Speaking last night to a business forum in Jerusalem\'s Intel Corp, Minister of Finance Silvan Shalom recommended submitting a state budget every two years instead of every year as is presently the case.
A gag order was lifted permitting publication of the arrest of Fatah terrorist Mufiq Hassan Ali Abu Kmala, 35, by the Israel Security Agency (formerly the GSS). Kmala, from Anabta, was employed in a Tul Karem school. He admitted that he prepared bombs in the school building to be used in attacks against Israelis.
In an Arab village near Maale Adumim, police yesterday confiscated computers and other paraphernalia used to produce forged Israeli identification cards, entry permits to pre-1967 Israel for PA residents, and passports. One person was placed in custody, and a second suspect is being sought.
