The number of tourists coming to Israel in June of this year was 97,400 - a 55% drop compared to June of last year. People in transit totaled 3,500 - an 89% increase. In the nine months of the Oslo War, from Oct. 2000 until June 2001, the number of air tourists fell 46% compared to the monthly average the year before - from 186,000 to 101,000. In the first six months of 2001, 690,000 tourists came (including 12,500 in transit), 53 percent less than in the first half of 2000...
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Anan has threatened that if the government of Lebanon does not deploy military forces along its southern border - Israel\'s northern border - the UN will cut back its own forces. In accordance with Israel\'s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Lebanon is responsible for deploying its forces to prevent Hizbullah attacks against Israel...
MK Zevulun Orlev (National Religious Party) calls upon the army to make appropriate arrangements for the coming Tisha B\'Av fast this coming Saturday night and Sunday. Orlev asks that soldiers observing the 25-hour fast be released from performing non-security duties that day. He further asks that soldiers on leave for the Sabbath not be required to return to base until after the fast...
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Anan has threatened that if the government of Lebanon does not deploy military forces along its southern border - Israel\'s northern border - the UN will cut back its own forces. In accordance with Israel\'s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Lebanon is responsible for deploying its forces to prevent Hizbullah attacks against Israel...
MK Zevulun Orlev (National Religious Party) calls upon the army to make appropriate arrangements for the coming Tisha B\'Av fast this coming Saturday night and Sunday. Orlev asks that soldiers observing the 25-hour fast be released from performing non-security duties that day. He further asks that soldiers on leave for the Sabbath not be required to return to base until after the fast...