The ports strike is off, following a court order handed down late last night. The Labor Court ruled that for the next two weeks, the government must not use its new Israel Shipyards port near Haifa as a port, and that the sides must report on the progress in their negotiations at the end of the two-week period. The unloading of a Greek freighter's cargo at the new port on Friday sparked off a port workers strike, and the Court strongly criticized the workers for causing losses totally out of proportion to the losses with which they themselves are threatened...



Egypt is trying to advance the idea of another hudna - temporary ceasefire for the purpose of regrouping - between Israel and the various PA terror organizations. Col. Omar Suleimon of Egypt's General Intelligence Service is meeting in Ramallah today with Arafat and Qurei (Abu Ala) on the issue. Suleimon is working on three planes: trying to make peace between Arafat and Abu Ala; the hudna and the terrorist groups; and scheduling a meeting between Abu Ala and Prime Minister Sharon...



An armed terrorist was shot and killed this afternoon in Tul Karem, east of Netanya, when he opened fire on an IDF force. No Israelis were hurt... An IDF force discovered a large bomb containing some 10 kilograms of explosives southwest of Jenin, and safely detonated it...