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...seems just as pointedly at odds with the Israeli mood. Instead of bringing centrist Israelis back to Labor, Mitzna appears likely to poach from other dovish parties in a shrinking pool of leftist voters. "Mitzna has vacated the center and Sharon is sliding in," says Dan Schueftan, a Haifa University professor and friend of Mitzna. Sharon's response to the Jerusalem bus bomb that killed 11 Israelis last Thursday shows what Mitzna is up against. To cast himself as the moderate in this week's Likud primary, where he'll face off against Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon ordered Israeli...
...question that has captivated officials in Washington is whether funds from the bank accounts of the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and his wife, known as Princess Haifa, might have found their way into the wrong hands...
...last 48 hours, TIME has learned, Riyadh's embassy in Washington has launched a major search through its medical, student, consular, cultural and other records to try to find out whether funds from an account of Princess Haifa their way into the hands of people who may have been supporting terror. That link has not been proven. But sources close to the Saudis made it clear that the ambassador's wife did not keep a close eye on her accounts. On Friday, Princess Haifa's accountant was dispatched to a branch of the Riggs National Bank in Washington to make...
...That search is not complete; only a portion of the checks have been scrutinized so far. But sources said that starting in January 1999, payments of $2000 a month were made from Princess Haifa's checking account to a woman named Majida Ibrahim Ahmad Dwaikat, a Jordanian national with a green card, who is the wife of Osama Bassnan. Bassnan first came to the attention of the Saudi Embassy in Washington in April 1998, when he wrote a pleading letter to Princess Haifa introducing himself as a Saudi living in Washington with four children and a pregnant wife, who also...
...Eliezer also faces a primary challenge from legislator Haim Ramon and Haifa mayor Amram Mitzna, and he currently trails both men in the polls. Some Israeli analysts speculate that his sudden choice of the path of confrontation with Sharon is motivated in no small part by his desire to see off challengers within his own party. But it remains to be seen whether either Mitznah or Ramon is considered a credible candidate by the party's base or were simply a protest-vote choice of activists looking to get ben-Eliezer out of the government. Labor's decision also inserts...