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...pace has hardly slowed for our Jerusalem bureau since then. Faced with a bloody war on the Lebanon border and, later, a tentative cease-fire, Beyer had to cancel her plans to fly to New York to receive the Overseas Press Club award last Thursday...
...Aviv, where bureau chief Lisa Beyer was on maternity leave, her brand-new son Coby got a crash course in deadline reporting as his mom swung into action. After alerting New York, she filed details of the killing and analysis of its political implications. Bureau reporters Jamil Hamad, Aharon Klein, Eric Silver and Robert Slater worked their Palestinian, political and security sources, while correspondents Lara Marlowe in Beirut and Scott MacLeod in Paris soaked up reaction throughout the Middle East and Europe...
...under increasing pressure from religious and right-wing parties to delay the troop withdrawal until after elections May 29. The parties hope the right- wing Likud party will win the election and back out of the pullout agreement with Palestinians. "Hebron is a tinderbox," Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says. "It is a tense place even under the best of circumstances. You have radical, militant Jewish settlers protected by Israeli soldiers in the middle of a hostile Palestinian local community." The troop re-deployment was supposed to have started in the end of March, but February's string of suicide...
...cease-fire on Friday, while the UN unanimously approved a motion calling for an end to the fighting. Both appeals went unheard as Hizballah fired Katyusha rockets into Northern Israel, and Israeli units continued shelling Lebanon. "The Hizballah ability to retaliate is extremely limited," says TIME's Lisa Beyer. "But they could pull something dramatic like a suicide bombing, or a kidnapping." Despite the shooting today, Beyer believes the cross border war will not last much longer. "The feeling in Israel now is that the war will end sooner rather than later. After this horrible, terrible mistake, Israel's reputation...
...wave of suicide bombings. The White House will announce today that Clinton will join world leaders at a summit in Egypt next Wednesday to address ways to combat terrorism. Clinton will also visit Israel, where 61 people have died in four bombings since Feb. 25. Jerusalem Bureau chief Lisa Beyer says that while the summit won't have an immediate effect on the peace process, it is an important step. "This signals a whole new level of confrontation of terrorism. For Clinton to pack his bags so swiftly to come here sends a message in bold capital letters that...