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Mayor Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem's legendary political icon and the city's reasonable face to the world for 28 years, was defeated for re-election by Ehud Olmert, a hard-line opponent of Israel's latest peace initiatives...
...ground was shaking last Tuesday night on Jerusalem's Pierre Koenig Street as scores of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in long black coats and black hats stamped their feet, shouted "Messiah!" and sprayed champagne in the direction of Ehud Olmert, the city's new mayor. Five minutes away, shudders of a different sort reverberated through the campaign headquarters of Teddy Kollek as television announcers declared that a "political earthquake" had ended a remarkable career in public service. It is difficult to imagine Jerusalem without the rotund, irascible Kollek, who presided for nearly three decades over a transformation of the Holy...
Rather than come right out with it, the Israelis hinted at and leaked their charge after Mohammad Jarad and Mohammad Salah, two naturalized Americans, were arrested as Hamas organizers in the occupied territories. Ehud Yaari, an Arab affairs commentator for the state-run Israel Television, said a shaken Hamas leadership had selected the U.S. as a safe haven and moved its "nerve center" there from the occupied territories. The Hamas militant underground, he said, consisted of four regional commands now directed from the U.S. headquarters...
...than 20% and costing the government an estimated $26.5 billion. Israel's Finance Ministry predicts that U.S. failure to deliver on the guarantees would drive up unemployment from 11% to 16.2%. Ideologue though Shamir may be, he is a pragmatist who knows when he must deal. Says his spokesman Ehud Gol: "We are asking, after all, and they are giving...
Bush's behavior, representing what Israeli Health Minister Ehud Olmert called "an administration that doesn't try or pretend to show, even for appearances, some amount of friendship" to Israel, only serves to threaten the current peace talks...