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...Italian collective Cracking Art. Inside, you don't have to check in to get a vast sampling of new art: the 9,000-sq.-ft. (836 sq m) exhibition space is free, open 24/7 and stuffed with wonders such as Text Rain, an installation by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv, where visitors can watch letters descend onto full-size video images of themselves and settle into lines of poetry. (See pictures of New York...
...that the Prime Minister's office had figured in the obstruction of the security service's investigation of the attempted assassinations of three West Bank mayors last June. As a result, the Star claimed that the head of the General Security Service (known as Shin Bet), Avraham Achituv, had resigned. Israeli newspaper reports about the Star story inspired an angry Knesset debate as well as protest demonstrations outside Begin's residence. Israel's attorney general last week announced that Halevy "may have committed a prima facie violation of Israeli law by publishing the name...
Halevy insisted that his story was correct. Appearing before a Knesset commit tee, Achituv said that he had asked, well before the start of the bombing investigation, to resign at the end of the year. But Achituv flatly refused to discuss whether, as Halevy charged, Shin Bet did have strong pointers to the identity of the would-be assassins, who have yet to be arrested. Commented the independent daily Haaretz: "Doubts remain - if not with regard to the reasons for the security service director's resignation, then with regard to the investigation of the assassination attempts...
When Avraham Achituv, 54, chief of Shin Bet, learned of the evidence, he allegedly asked Begin for permission to investigate further, using surveillance and wiretap methods. Begin said no. His reason, according to the Star: the police were carrying out a full investigation. Later, the newspaper reported, Achituv learned to his surprise that the police had been told that Shin Bet was in charge...
Israelis first heard of the allegations on television in a live telephone interview from Washington. The next day every newspaper headlined the charges, which the government denied with increasing firmness and wrath. Achituv himself gave four interviews, unprecedented for a security chief, including one on television in which the cameras focused on a tape recorder emitting his voice. (Israeli censorship law forbids the chiefs name or photograph to be published.) Achituv flatly denied that he had encountered interference in his investigation. His resignation, he said, had been a routine request to step down at the end of the year. What...
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