Word: shin
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...successes Israel could point to last week didn't come thanks to the tanks that rolled almost as far as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and fought gunbattles with Palestinian militiamen. Instead, it was small undercover units that made a series of successful snatches. Sources in the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service tell Time that officers from the Jerusalem police's "Gidonim" undercover unit nabbed Mahmed Rimawi, one of the gang that killed Ze'evi, from a hideout in the hostile Kalandia refugee camp. Another undercover team found a second member of the hit squad, Salah Alawi, hiding...
...Fucking Russians. What are they doing here? They shouldn’t be here.” On the grassy field, a couple “Make Love, Not War” signs flapped in the breeze. There is a red welt where the angry man’s shin struck my friend’s neck...
...about speed, sweat and ankle support--this year's hot sneakers earn their price tag by scoring points at the cocktail party instead of on the court. Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto has teamed up with Adidas to produce six striking athletic shoes. The "Boxing Boot," shown here, offers shin protection; the smooth, shiny "Tenet" is available with or without a kimono-inspired flower on the forefoot...
...mean they aren't out to get you. Part of the Palestinian fear is justified. When Israel pulled out of Palestinian towns beginning in 1994, it had to expand its operation for finding and maintaining collaborators to keep track of events now outside its area of control. The Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security force, set up a special unit to select likely collaborators from among the close circles of Hamas activists and Palestinian Authority officials. The Shin Bet men who run the collaborator network in Bethlehem had two mobile homes as offices three years ago. Now they have seven...
...Israeli agents, it can be dangerous work. In June Lieut. Colonel Yehuda Edri of Unit 504, which runs the Israeli army's West Bank network of Palestinian informants, died when a collaborator he had gone to meet outside Bethlehem shot him. Military intelligence changed its procedures to match the Shin Bet, where bodyguards search the collaborator before he meets his handler. Still, only three agents have been killed by collaborators during meetings in the past few years. The collaborators aren't so lucky. They average three years before they are discovered by their compatriots. Then either they are killed...