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Olmert and his cabinet overrode advice from the chiefs of Mossad and the Shin Bet, Israel's foreign and domestic intelligence agencies, not to release live - and potentially dangerous - prisoners. But Israel has always placed a premium on securing the remains of its soldiers fallen in foreign battles. And calls for a prisoner swap have turned into a charged and emotive public issue in Israel - with general elections just around the corner, few cabinet ministers were willing to go against the popular tide. As Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, who is in favor of a prisoner swap, said today: "We have...
...www.thekitchin.com, became the youngest Scot to receive the ranking - just six months after he opened his restaurant in a renovated whisky warehouse in 2006. His cooking has a pronounced French influence, partly stemming from his training with Alain Ducasse, and includes inventive dishes such as braised calf-foot-and-shin "fingers," served with sautéed organic snails from Devon and a garlic and parsley risotto. Across the quayside, top toque Martin Wishart has opened a designer cookery school, www.cookschool.co.uk, and a namesake restaurant on the waterfront, www.martin-wishart.co.uk, which he runs with his wife Cecile. Wishart's eclectic approach engenders...
...Erez, al-Wahedi says he tore up Shin Bet's phone number. "I was angry and frustrated. I knew that if I didn't have surgery immediately, even the best surgeon couldn't fix my eye," he claims. Contacted by TIME, Shin Bet denied approaching al-Wahedi to collaborate and say that he was turned back at Erez because of his involvement in "activities dangerous to the state...
Nevertheless, the Israeli group Physicians for Human Rights alleges that since last June - when Hamas took control of Gaza from its Fatah rivals loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas - at least 30 other patients seeking urgent medical help were denied passage by Shin Bet because they refused to act as informers. In the past, most collaborators worked from within Fatah, and when they were chased from Gaza last June, it was a blow to Israeli intelligence...
Last November, the Physicians for Human Rights petitioned the Israeli High Court to rule on Shin Bet's "coercion" of Palestinians seeking medical care, but in January the court closed the file without a ruling. "What we're seeing is that the High Court is willing to intervene less and less in security cases," says Weingarten, who explained that was why the court had refused to rule on their petition. Shin Bet refused to comment on the case...