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ForIsraeli and PLOofficials, keeping the emerging West Bank accord on track after a terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv last week may have been the easy part. Now, they must convince Jewish settlers -- many of whom have occupied a local hilltop in protest -- to leave the territory. Today, in the biggest clash so far between authorities and West Bank settlers, hundreds of Israeli police and soldiers climbed the Dagan Hill and dragged them down by the dozens, only to watch them run back up. After several hours, hot and weary police and soldiers carried the settlers down again. (At least...
...HASSELHOFF is interested in starting a chain of Baywatcher restaurants, with the first planned for already overpolluted New York City. Finally, in a key breakthrough in celebrity-Israeli relations, Kurt Waldheim's buddy ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER visited Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin before breaking ground for a Planet Hollywood in Tel Aviv...
...measures as the $1 trillion budget that promises some tax cuts but stops short of the $353 billion giveaway favored by Gramm. Candidate Dole's lurch to the right has led him to attempt perilous U-turns, such as his sudden endorsement of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, that will create fodder for rivals' television commercials early next year. But Dole's job as majority leader keeps him front and center with a general-election audience that distrusts some of the conservative agenda. For now, Dole will stick with the juggling act. As campaign manager Reed...
...killers celebrated in the streets of Gaza, and how gingerly Yasser Arafat's governing Palestinian Authority has treated them (at least until very recently), most Israelis wonder whether it is possible ever to make peace. Even among Israeli peace activists, says Clinton Bailey, a history professor at Tel Aviv University, "people are asking whether making the deal with Arafat was the right thing...
...Israeli, I know that the citizens of Oklahoma City are going through. I've been there: in Tel Aviv, when the bus exploded; in Beit Lid, just outside my hometown, where families and friends were torn apart by terrorist attacks. I also know how the lives of Americans will now be different. America used to be the place where I could go for respite from such tensions. No longer...