The ceasefire does not exist, Prime Minister Sharon told Jewish leaders in New York last night, citing yesterday\'s shooting at Jewish homes in Hevron as an example. The Prime Minister expressed his hope that the international community would begin seeing Arafat not as the head of a future state but as a terrorist gang leader. Calling for aliyah (immigration to Israel), he said, \"Another million Jews in Israel in the coming decade will change the situation from one extreme to the other.\"



A Hevron Arab hurled seven firebombs this afternoon at a Border Guard force; no one was hurt, and IDF soldiers returned fire at the terrorist and wounded him... Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at an Israeli bus at the Yakir junction, west of Ariel; no one was hurt. A similar attack occurred in the same place yesterday… Yet another Arab \"work accident\" this afternoon: two Arabs in their 20\'s were moderately-to-seriously injured in what was described as a \"large explosion\" in downtown Shechem…



A large bomb went off this morning under or near an IDF tank in northern Gaza. No one was hurt. Palestinians shot at an IDF position near Ganei Tal, further south, while near Maccabim, along the Green Line in central Israel, a Molotov cocktail was hurled; no one was hurt in these incidents. It was learned today that an immigrant to Israel from the former Soviet Union, a man identified only as Anatoly, was severely beaten by a group of Israeli-Arabs at the entrance to his apartment building in Jaffa several days ago. He told Arutz-7 today, \"A man came to the door and asked, \'Are you the guy who punched my son?\' Before I even had a chance to ask him what he was talking about, he had thrown me against the door, and then people from all over were beating me from every angle...\"



The custody of Mahmoud Naji, 29, of the PA city of Kalkilye, was extended today for the third time, this time for six days. It was announced today that he was arrested shortly after the Dolphinarium suicide slaughter on charges of having driven the terrorist to Tel Aviv to perpetrate his crime. The blast killed 21 people, mostly young Russian immigrants. Naji claims that he did not know that his passenger was a terrorist, and that friends had called him the night before to ask him to drive the man to Tel Aviv to help him find work.



Alert soldiers of the hareidi Nachal unit caught three infiltrators from Jordan last night. The soldiers noticed three figures floating across the Dead Sea from Jordan on a rubber mattress, and apprehended them as they landed on the Israeli shore. Two of the three Ukrainian nationals were on the verge of dehydration and were taken to a hospital, while the third told police that they had come here looking for work.