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DIED. ISSER HAREL, 91, Israeli spymaster who headed Mossad, the country's intelligence agency during the 1950s and early 1960s, and who masterminded the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960; in Petah Tikva, Israel. In the 1975 book The House on Garibaldi Street, which was made into a TV movie, Harel wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian...
...promising that their hard line will end the conflict. They believe they can contain the violence and, gradually, set up a Palestinian regime that will have learned a lesson from the violent collapse of Arafat's Palestinian Authority. At Labor Party headquarters in Tel Aviv's low-rent Ha-Tikva quarter, the moments after the election results came through were dismal. Outside the hall, the wind carried the discordant sounds of a few dozen disappointed activists gamely singing along with Labor leader Amram Mitzna, as he crooned old Zionist tunes from the 1950s. A clutch of young Labor supporters huddled...
DIED. LEAH RABIN, 72, widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and blunt-spoken supporter of the Arab-Israeli peace process; of cancer; in Petach Tikva, Israel. Rabin's last public act was to ask Israeli leader Ehud Barak to send former Prime Minister Shimon Peres to negotiate with the Palestinians...
...death of children is always a tragedy, no matter what political stance is taken by their elders. The guilt for those deaths must be sought not only among the security forces but also among the scheming adults who willingly sent them out to the front lines. ZVI BAR Petach Tikva, Israel...
...cares if Prince William can or cannot save the monarchy? It has ceased to be of any interest, and at best is just good material to fill the tabloids. ASHER GABBAY Petah Tikva, Israel...