Police in Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv, are still at a loss to explain how Arab terrorists were able to place a bomb on train tracks in the city\'s Ganei Aviv neighborhood. The bomb exploded early this morning, lightly injuring three people and damaging one train car. The train was carrying about 500 passengers when the bomb went off, apparently by remote control. Police arrested several Arabs found to be in the area illegally. Security personnel who comb the tracks each morning did not spot the bomb today before it went off.
Intelligence warnings of a possible terrorist attack in Jerusalem continue to be acute, and police were out in force in the capital today, establishing new checkpoints at the city\'s entrances and carrying out other preventive measures. Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef cancelled his popular weekly Torah lecture in the Bucharim neighborhood of the capital last night, in accordance with police advice. A Jewish home in the Armon HaNetziv neighborhood was targeted in a Friday night firebomb attack; there were no injuries.
Construction of the security fence around parts of Jerusalem began today, in the area of the Tunnels Highway between Gush Etzion and southern Jerusalem. Women in Green demonstrated today outside the Prime Minister\'s Office against what it calls the country\'s planned \"Auschwitz borders.\" The phrase was coined by Abba Eban, who served as Israel\'s Ambassador to the UN during the Six-Day War. The organization\'s co-founder Nadia Matar says that the new border fence will provide a misleading sense of security while placing the residents of Yesha communities outside of mainland Israel.
Intelligence warnings of a possible terrorist attack in Jerusalem continue to be acute, and police were out in force in the capital today, establishing new checkpoints at the city\'s entrances and carrying out other preventive measures. Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef cancelled his popular weekly Torah lecture in the Bucharim neighborhood of the capital last night, in accordance with police advice. A Jewish home in the Armon HaNetziv neighborhood was targeted in a Friday night firebomb attack; there were no injuries.
Construction of the security fence around parts of Jerusalem began today, in the area of the Tunnels Highway between Gush Etzion and southern Jerusalem. Women in Green demonstrated today outside the Prime Minister\'s Office against what it calls the country\'s planned \"Auschwitz borders.\" The phrase was coined by Abba Eban, who served as Israel\'s Ambassador to the UN during the Six-Day War. The organization\'s co-founder Nadia Matar says that the new border fence will provide a misleading sense of security while placing the residents of Yesha communities outside of mainland Israel.