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...effort to satisfy both the traditional and egalitarian wings of Harvard’s Jewish community, Executive Director of Hillel Bernard Steinberg announced a change yesterday in Hillel’s policies on who may lead certain rituals...
...week long, Israeli media and some politicians had fretted over the wisdom of last weekend's assassination of Raed Karmi, a local militia leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization wanted by Israel for attacks on Jewish settlers in the West Bank. And sure enough, Fatah's Al Aqsa brigades claimed responsibility for Thursday's carnage at Hadera, saying the attack was in retaliation for the killing of Karmi. Israel blamed the attack directly on Arafat, and the response was swift - Israeli F-16s destroyed Palestinian Authority security headquarters in the town of Tulkarm, in what may only...
...with contempt in their new country. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion struck a reparations deal with West Germany in 1953 for DM 3 billion, then worth around $700 million. Israel agreed to give the money to survivors already in Israel; Germany would pay for those who arrived in the Jewish state after the deal was done. But Israel soon found there were more disabled survivors than anticipated, and the 1953 grant ran out. So until recently, the 40,000 survivors getting payments from Israel received much less than those who arrived later and were paid directly by Germany...
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...
...They used to take all my energy with their medicines," he says. "Why did they give me all those drugs?" Heath Minister Dahan said last week that he'd been to Shaar Menashe, apologizing to the survivors "in the name of the state of Israel and the Jewish people...