Ofer Shelah
By Ofer Shelah
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News New Israel Intelligence Chief Eyeing Attacks by Extremists
TEL AVIV — In his first Knesset appearance since taking over as head of the Shin Bet security service last Sunday, Yuval Diskin sounded a grim but unaccustomed note. “Israel’s internal strength might crumble if there were to be another assassination of a prime minister,” Diskin warned the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Regarding that…
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News Basque Twist Tarnishes Jerusalem’s ‘Gold’
TEL AVIV — To Israelis, Independence Day is by tradition a day of accounting. They learn how many of them there are (6.9 million last week — 76% of them Jewish — the Central Bureau of Statistics announced). They decide how they wish to be represented (in endless debates over who will win the prestigious…
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News Israeli Public Is Upbeat, But Leaders Fear the Worst
TEL AVIV — Three years after the Passover Eve bombing at Netanya’s Park Hotel, arguably the low point in Israel’s war against Palestinian terrorism, the Israeli people are in a soaring mood. Everyone, that is, except country’s leaders. As far as the pubic is concerned, times are better than they have been in years. This…
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News Anxiety Grows Among Settlers As Sharon Wings Gaza Pullout
TEL AVIV — With less than three months to go before Israel’s scheduled withdrawal from Gaza and no clear plans for the day after, the Cabinet this week authorized the purchase of hundreds of mobile homes to house the 8,000 Jewish settlers to be evacuated. The mobile-home decision was taken Tuesday during a stormy ministers’…
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News World Cup Finals Riveting Israel
TEL AVIV — Ariel Sharon is conducting the political high-wire act of his life. Relations with Washington are tense over the planned expansion of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement near Jerusalem. Security agencies warn that Jewish extremists are planning their worst to stop the disengagement plan. Last week, however, those dramas took a back seat to…
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News World Cup Finals Riveting Israel
TEL AVIV — Ariel Sharon is conducting the political high-wire act of his life. Relations with Washington are tense over the planned expansion of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement near Jerusalem. Security agencies warn that Jewish extremists are planning their worst to stop the disengagement plan. Last week, however, those dramas took a back seat to…
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News Tensions Over Disengagement Split Army
TEL AVIV — Tensions between the religious settler community and the political mainstream reached into the army’s General Staff and boiled over this week, in an unusual confrontation that could be a sign of things to come as the July date nears for disengagement from Gaza. The eruption came at a meeting of senior officers…
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News Sweating Sharon Gets Break: Budget Battle Turns His Way
TEL AVIV — With just three weeks left before his statutory deadline to pass a state budget — or face new elections — Prime Minister Sharon appears to have emerged this week onto a suddenly transformed landscape, turning what had looked like a life-and-death struggle into something more like a garage sale. Theoretically, Sharon is…
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