Prime Minister Sharon acknowledges that he is facing public pressure to increase the intensity of his responses to the Palestinian Authority\'s violence. In a meeting with a U.S. Congressional delegation, Sharon said that the restraint that he has decreed upon himself has cost him in public opinion, but he is still determined to prevent a war. He asked his guests to include Arafat\'s security arms, including Force 17, as terrorist organizations for all purposes...
Beginning today, 5,000 additional Arab laborers will be permitted entry into Israel’s pre-1967 borders. The decision to ease the closure restrictions, which were imposed as a security measure, comes to allow the seasonal olive processing to proceed apace...
Police in Ma’aleh Adumim - one of three Jewish cities in Judea and Samaria - have arrested five young residents for setting up illegal roadblocks near the town, east of Jerusalem. The five are suspected of taking the action in response to recent terrorist shooting incidents in the area, and of stoning Arab vehicles that did not stop at the roadblocks...
Beginning today, 5,000 additional Arab laborers will be permitted entry into Israel’s pre-1967 borders. The decision to ease the closure restrictions, which were imposed as a security measure, comes to allow the seasonal olive processing to proceed apace...
Police in Ma’aleh Adumim - one of three Jewish cities in Judea and Samaria - have arrested five young residents for setting up illegal roadblocks near the town, east of Jerusalem. The five are suspected of taking the action in response to recent terrorist shooting incidents in the area, and of stoning Arab vehicles that did not stop at the roadblocks...