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...violence engulfed the West Bank in the past month and his customers stopped coming. It is an emblematic darkness. Helo's village, Bidya, had been a bright symbol of the links that peace had forged between Israelis and Palestinians. Israelis came to Bidya, only a few miles from Tel Aviv's suburbs, to spend $50 million a year on furniture, clothes and auto parts. Then came the new intifadeh. Four weeks ago, an Israeli was murdered there as he waited for his tires to be changed. And Mohammed Helo flicked the switch...
...very tired. But I overcame it. The result was that when we flew back in the afternoon, I don't remember even the takeoff. I fell asleep immediately on the plane, and they could barely wake me up when we landed at Ben Gurion [airport near Tel Aviv]. But it was only one hour...
...outside his home and stoned it. "Imagine if Arabs had attacked the house of a Jewish member of parliament," says Bishara. "They would have shot them. At my house, the police were just trying to persuade the mob nicely to go home." And there were other stories. In Tel Aviv, a mob torched a restaurant after locking its Arab kitchen staff inside. Police had to fight off rioters to free the busboys...
...Saturday evening Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak spoke to TIME senior writer Lisa Beyer by phone from his private residence in Kochav Yair, north of Tel Aviv...
George Tenet's limousine was pulling up near the Gaza Strip for a meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Thursday afternoon when the car's secure phone rang. The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv was on the horn, relaying a hurried call from Israeli officials, who claimed that the road crossing the CIA director was approaching was blocked; he couldn't enter Palestinian territory. What the Israelis didn't tell him was that their helicopter gunships were just miles away, about to rake targets near Arafat's Gaza City headquarters, and they didn't want Tenet caught in the cross...