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Latest news briefs from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Tuesday, January 6, 2004
(JTA) - Turkish message
Turkey will urge Syria to curb Hezbollah as a step toward renewing peace talks with Israel. Quoting sources in Ankara, Israel's daily Ma'ariv reported that Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan would tell visiting Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday that Damascus lacks diplomatic credibility because it supports Lebanese and Palestinian terrorist groups. "If a determined Syrian handling of the problem is noted, this will set the stage for renewed negotiations," Erdogan is to tell Assad, according to the report. Turkey long has been Israel's main Middle East ally. With Assad's landmark visit on Tuesday, Ankara may patch up years of border tension with Syria and increase its influence as a regional power broker.
(JTA) - Assad blames Israel for bombings
Israel is responsible for Palestinian suicide bombings, Syria's president said. In an interview published Tuesday in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Bashar Assad denied that he could do anything to stop terrorist attacks against Israelis, though many of the groups reportedly take their orders from headquarters in Damascus. "It doesn't matter if we like it or not, if we support it or condemn it," Assad said. "Only Israel, when it stops killing, won't have any more killing."
(JTA) - Outpost hit list
Israel reportedly has designated 28 illegal West Bank settlement outposts for removal. They include 18 inhabited outposts and 10 that have only temporary buildings. Several of the outposts on the list already have been identified publicly. Migron is the largest of the outposts, most of which were set up after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took power in March 2001. Some settler leaders have pledged to resist the step. Israel agreed to dismantle illegal outposts under the "road map" peace plan. Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat said Sharon's speech to the Likud Party Central Committee, in which he reiterated his plan to disengage unilaterally from the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not begin fulfilling their pledges to crack down on terrorism, shows that Sharon was never interested in the road map.
(JTA) - What happened to the Packers?
Muslim teams in a California football league changed most of their names after they were found to be offensive. Among the trams that switched names were squads called Soldiers of Allah and Mujahadeen, or Holy Warrior. The Intifada team, however, retained its name.
(JTA) - Ex-Mossad head: 'Road map' bad idea
The "road map" peace plan will fail, a former head of Israel's Mossad said. Speaking Tuesday to journalists in Jerusalem, Ephraim Halevy said the road map is a "bad recipe," and that all the parties involved know it, including the United States, which sponsored the plan. Halevy said the Palestinian Authority will not be able to fulfill its obligations under the plan to squash terrorism. He also said Palestinian actions in recent years suggest Palestinians are more interested in overwhelming Israel than in setting up an independent state.
(JTA) - Ex-Shin Bet chief tackles security
Ami Ayalon, a former head of Israel's Shin Bet security service, is heading a new Israeli committee for homeland security. The committee, set up by Science Minister Eliezer Zandberg, is charged with securing Israel's civilian infrastructure against terrorism. "The United States has done wonders with its homeland security and we are following suit," Ayalon, who also heads a grass-roots peace campaign with Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh, told JTA on Tuesday. In a related development, Israel's Transportation Ministry announced that public buses would be equipped with bomb detectors but did not give further details.
(JTA) - Holocaust forum in Sicily
A conference on the Holocaust will be held next week in Sicily. Called "The Holocaust and the Duty of Remembering," the Jan. 18 event will take place in the town of San Cataldo, in the center of the island. Jews were expelled from Sicily 500 years ago and few Jews live there today. But dozens of former medieval Jewish ghettos and other traces of Jewish heritage are scattered around Sicily, and there has been considerable interest in the study of Jewish culture and history in recent years.
(JTA) - Anti-cigarette ad campaign
Israel has banned as misleading the use of "mild" and "light" on cigarette labels. Tuesday's decision by the Knesset Finance Committee, which will take effect in September, comes amid mounting calls to raise awareness of smoking-related health problems, which claim 10,000 Israeli lives each year. The panel also ordered tobacco companies to enlarge by 30 percent the size of the health advisories on their products.
(JTA) - Cell phones as heart monitors
An Israeli company is developing a heart-monitoring device that could operate in cell phones. Biolapis is developing the device in conjunction with the South Korean technology giant Samsung. The device is still in clinical trials but already has won a silver medal at a technological exhibition in Belgium.
(JTA) - Likud faithful cool on Sharon
Ariel Sharon was booed when he told Likud Party members they must be ready to give up some West Bank towns. The Israeli prime minister received a cool reception at his party's convention Monday when he said he would be willing to help establish a Palestinian state if the Palestinians crack down on terrorist groups. He also reiterated that Israel would have to relinquish some settlements to disengage from the Palestinians if peace talks do not progress in coming months.
(JTA) - Settlers got more time
Israel's High Court of Justice delayed the evacuation of four illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank. The court ruled that settlers have 15 days to appeal Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to dismantle the illegal outposts of West Bat Ayin, Ginot Aryeh, Havat Shaked and Magen David. The court ruled that the six days initially given the settlers was too little.
(JTA) - Georgian Jews have high hopes
Jews in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have high hopes for their country's new president. Mikhail Saakashvili, elected Monday following a bloodless coup that ousted Eduard Shevardnadze, praised Georgia's relationship with Israel and the Jewish people in a Dec. 26 appearance at a Shabbat prayer service in Tbilisi. The service was hosted by Israel's ambassador to Georgia, according Mark Levin, executive director of the NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia. Some 10,000 Jews live in Georgia, where they have enjoyed relative tolerance.
Jewish extremists dedicate seminary
Israeli settlers dedicated a rabbinical seminary at an illegal West Bank outpost. The seminary at West Tapuach was dedicated Sunday by followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. During the ceremony, children yelled "Expel the Arabs," The Associated Press reported.
(JTA) - Wanna buy Goering's boat?
The former yacht of Nazi Hermann Goering is up for sale in Egypt. German boat dealer Christopher Brunner-Schwer told der Spiegel magazine that he hopes to make a fortune selling the boat, posted for sale by the American widow of an Egyptian oil agent. "Arabs like the boat's history," he said, "and that is raising the price." Anchored today in El Gouna, the Carin II was built in 1937 and reportedly was a favorite place for secret meetings involving top Nazis, including Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann and Hitler. Years after the war, it was purchased by former Stern magazine journalist Gerd Heidemann, who later became notorious as the middleman in the 1983 fake Hitler diaries scam. Heidemann turned the boat into a floating shrine to the Nazis. After he was charged in the Hitler diary case, he was forced to sell the boat at auction in 1988, at which point it was purchased by Egyptian oil agent Mustafa Karim. According to Brunner-Schwer, wealthy Arabs have inquired about the boat.
(JTA) - Got white supremacists?
A white supremacist group is advertising for new members on the Florida Turnpike. The billboard near Orlando reads "WHO RULE$ AMERIKA?" and then gives a Web site address, according to the Orlando Sentinel. The address links to the page of the National Alliance, which was founded by the late William Pierce. Pierce wrote "The Turner Diaries," an inspiration for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. JTA END
(JTA) - Turkish message
Turkey will urge Syria to curb Hezbollah as a step toward renewing peace talks with Israel. Quoting sources in Ankara, Israel's daily Ma'ariv reported that Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan would tell visiting Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday that Damascus lacks diplomatic credibility because it supports Lebanese and Palestinian terrorist groups. "If a determined Syrian handling of the problem is noted, this will set the stage for renewed negotiations," Erdogan is to tell Assad, according to the report. Turkey long has been Israel's main Middle East ally. With Assad's landmark visit on Tuesday, Ankara may patch up years of border tension with Syria and increase its influence as a regional power broker.
(JTA) - Assad blames Israel for bombings
Israel is responsible for Palestinian suicide bombings, Syria's president said. In an interview published Tuesday in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Bashar Assad denied that he could do anything to stop terrorist attacks against Israelis, though many of the groups reportedly take their orders from headquarters in Damascus. "It doesn't matter if we like it or not, if we support it or condemn it," Assad said. "Only Israel, when it stops killing, won't have any more killing."
(JTA) - Outpost hit list
Israel reportedly has designated 28 illegal West Bank settlement outposts for removal. They include 18 inhabited outposts and 10 that have only temporary buildings. Several of the outposts on the list already have been identified publicly. Migron is the largest of the outposts, most of which were set up after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took power in March 2001. Some settler leaders have pledged to resist the step. Israel agreed to dismantle illegal outposts under the "road map" peace plan. Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat said Sharon's speech to the Likud Party Central Committee, in which he reiterated his plan to disengage unilaterally from the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not begin fulfilling their pledges to crack down on terrorism, shows that Sharon was never interested in the road map.
(JTA) - What happened to the Packers?
Muslim teams in a California football league changed most of their names after they were found to be offensive. Among the trams that switched names were squads called Soldiers of Allah and Mujahadeen, or Holy Warrior. The Intifada team, however, retained its name.
(JTA) - Ex-Mossad head: 'Road map' bad idea
The "road map" peace plan will fail, a former head of Israel's Mossad said. Speaking Tuesday to journalists in Jerusalem, Ephraim Halevy said the road map is a "bad recipe," and that all the parties involved know it, including the United States, which sponsored the plan. Halevy said the Palestinian Authority will not be able to fulfill its obligations under the plan to squash terrorism. He also said Palestinian actions in recent years suggest Palestinians are more interested in overwhelming Israel than in setting up an independent state.
(JTA) - Ex-Shin Bet chief tackles security
Ami Ayalon, a former head of Israel's Shin Bet security service, is heading a new Israeli committee for homeland security. The committee, set up by Science Minister Eliezer Zandberg, is charged with securing Israel's civilian infrastructure against terrorism. "The United States has done wonders with its homeland security and we are following suit," Ayalon, who also heads a grass-roots peace campaign with Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh, told JTA on Tuesday. In a related development, Israel's Transportation Ministry announced that public buses would be equipped with bomb detectors but did not give further details.
(JTA) - Holocaust forum in Sicily
A conference on the Holocaust will be held next week in Sicily. Called "The Holocaust and the Duty of Remembering," the Jan. 18 event will take place in the town of San Cataldo, in the center of the island. Jews were expelled from Sicily 500 years ago and few Jews live there today. But dozens of former medieval Jewish ghettos and other traces of Jewish heritage are scattered around Sicily, and there has been considerable interest in the study of Jewish culture and history in recent years.
(JTA) - Anti-cigarette ad campaign
Israel has banned as misleading the use of "mild" and "light" on cigarette labels. Tuesday's decision by the Knesset Finance Committee, which will take effect in September, comes amid mounting calls to raise awareness of smoking-related health problems, which claim 10,000 Israeli lives each year. The panel also ordered tobacco companies to enlarge by 30 percent the size of the health advisories on their products.
(JTA) - Cell phones as heart monitors
An Israeli company is developing a heart-monitoring device that could operate in cell phones. Biolapis is developing the device in conjunction with the South Korean technology giant Samsung. The device is still in clinical trials but already has won a silver medal at a technological exhibition in Belgium.
(JTA) - Likud faithful cool on Sharon
Ariel Sharon was booed when he told Likud Party members they must be ready to give up some West Bank towns. The Israeli prime minister received a cool reception at his party's convention Monday when he said he would be willing to help establish a Palestinian state if the Palestinians crack down on terrorist groups. He also reiterated that Israel would have to relinquish some settlements to disengage from the Palestinians if peace talks do not progress in coming months.
(JTA) - Settlers got more time
Israel's High Court of Justice delayed the evacuation of four illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank. The court ruled that settlers have 15 days to appeal Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to dismantle the illegal outposts of West Bat Ayin, Ginot Aryeh, Havat Shaked and Magen David. The court ruled that the six days initially given the settlers was too little.
(JTA) - Georgian Jews have high hopes
Jews in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have high hopes for their country's new president. Mikhail Saakashvili, elected Monday following a bloodless coup that ousted Eduard Shevardnadze, praised Georgia's relationship with Israel and the Jewish people in a Dec. 26 appearance at a Shabbat prayer service in Tbilisi. The service was hosted by Israel's ambassador to Georgia, according Mark Levin, executive director of the NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia. Some 10,000 Jews live in Georgia, where they have enjoyed relative tolerance.
Jewish extremists dedicate seminary
Israeli settlers dedicated a rabbinical seminary at an illegal West Bank outpost. The seminary at West Tapuach was dedicated Sunday by followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. During the ceremony, children yelled "Expel the Arabs," The Associated Press reported.
(JTA) - Wanna buy Goering's boat?
The former yacht of Nazi Hermann Goering is up for sale in Egypt. German boat dealer Christopher Brunner-Schwer told der Spiegel magazine that he hopes to make a fortune selling the boat, posted for sale by the American widow of an Egyptian oil agent. "Arabs like the boat's history," he said, "and that is raising the price." Anchored today in El Gouna, the Carin II was built in 1937 and reportedly was a favorite place for secret meetings involving top Nazis, including Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann and Hitler. Years after the war, it was purchased by former Stern magazine journalist Gerd Heidemann, who later became notorious as the middleman in the 1983 fake Hitler diaries scam. Heidemann turned the boat into a floating shrine to the Nazis. After he was charged in the Hitler diary case, he was forced to sell the boat at auction in 1988, at which point it was purchased by Egyptian oil agent Mustafa Karim. According to Brunner-Schwer, wealthy Arabs have inquired about the boat.
(JTA) - Got white supremacists?
A white supremacist group is advertising for new members on the Florida Turnpike. The billboard near Orlando reads "WHO RULE$ AMERIKA?" and then gives a Web site address, according to the Orlando Sentinel. The address links to the page of the National Alliance, which was founded by the late William Pierce. Pierce wrote "The Turner Diaries," an inspiration for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. JTA END
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