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...Holocaust survivors profoundly. The survivors' tale is one of neglect, penny-pinching and shame. Finally, Israel is being forced to accept responsibility for its 300,000 Holocaust victims - not just for their mental health but also their overall wellbeing. A parliamentary commission last April ordered Israeli banks to audit dormant accounts that may belong to Holocaust victims. Ministry of Justice officials tell Time they're hiring a group of former police investigators to locate heirs to abandoned properties whose European owners died in the camps. And Health Minister Nissim Dahan announced last week that he had visited a hostel...
Ministry officials say it looked bad for Israel to do so little to investigate Holocaust funds at a time when Swiss banks are under pressure from Jewish groups to unearth dormant accounts. A recent book by Bar-Ilan University professor Yossi Katz asserts that institutions like the Jewish National Fund, which was set up to purchase land for Jews in what was then Palestine, and Bank Leumi, one of Israel's biggest banks, failed to examine land records and abandoned accounts for Holocaust money. Last April, a Knesset committee finally pushed Israel's banks to audit these accounts...
...Qadi says his charity, known as Blessed Relief, has long been dormant, a contention echoed by a senior Saudi official. But U.S. sources tell TIME that intelligence shows movements of people, money and weapons to Muslim fighters in Bosnia financed by the charity as recently as 1999. It's clear that U.S. officials are not going to let the Saudis off the hook easily...
...mail asks students to forward the warning to everyone they know, and says the virus cannot be detected by antivirus programs because it remains dormant in the hard drive...
Despite his talent for writing, Wilson, who's shooting I Spy with Eddie Murphy, says, "it's more fun to go act than to hole up for a couple of months and try to write something. That's a lot scarier." But the writer in Wilson never stays dormant for long. Before shooting Behind Enemy Lines, Wilson transformed his character on the page from a swaggering pilot to a misguided navigator who has to outwit some Serbian bad guys after being shot down. "It kinda helped me make it more believable for myself," says Wilson. "I don't see myself...