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Leaks and rumors swirled anew last week as Israel continued to debate allegations that security agents lied, tampered with evidence and suborned witnesses to hide their involvement in the deaths of two captured Palestinian terrorists. Newly appointed Attorney General Yosef Harish began considering proposals for an inquiry into a possible cover-up by the Shin Bet (the Hebrew acronym for Israel's General Security Service), which handles antiterrorism intelligence operations. "There will be no whitewash of the affair," Harish told reporters. Still, few doubted that the Attorney General would come under heavy pressure from the Cabinet of Labor Prime Minister...
...activists want to express their objection to "B.U.'s immoral investment policy," "the systematic harassment of anti-apartheid activists" at the school and "raise awareness about the anti-apartheid movement," said Yosef I. Abramowitz, a student who initiated the strike...
...Israeli embassy in Washington, seeking political asylum. The embassy turned them away, and Pollard was promptly arrested by FBI agents. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison on charges of espionage. Several days after his arrest, two Israeli diplomats were recalled to Jerusalem: Yosef Yagur, the science attache at the New York consulate, and Ilan Ravid, deputy science attache in the Washington embassy. Simultaneously, the Israeli press reported that the Peres investigation had found that Pollard's secret supervisor was a top intelligence official, Rafi Eitan, who was running his own spying operation in ) Washington unbeknown...
...Yosef Yankelev: violin, Edward Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Friday...
Whatever the cause, the cost for countries that lose minds and hearts to the U.S. can be high. The presence of 8,000 Israeli engineers in the U.S. has, according to Yosef Kucik, emigration adviser to the Israeli government, "created a severe bottleneck in the development of sophisticated industry in Israel." Around half of the 1,000 students who graduate each year from the 27 medical schools in the Philippines go abroad, leaving one doctor tending to as many as 20,000 people in some of the archipelago's rural areas...