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...Israel's traumatized peace camp has recently begun showing signs of renewed life and political self-confidence - and it has begun to restore relations with its Palestinian counterparts. Just last week, former negotiator Yossi Beilin tried to persuade the Labor Party to walk out of Sharon's unity government on the grounds that the prime minister lacks a strategy to restore peace. The bid failed, but dovish Labor leaders are becoming more forthright in their criticisms - Deputy Defense Minister Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff recently lamented that the government had failed to take advantage of the "window of opportunity" for restoring dialogue...
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...
...Both Yossi Beilin, former Israeli Minister of Justice, and Yasser Abed Rabbo, Palestinian Minister of Information and Culture, said they would advocate accepting a less-than-perfect solution...
Israeli experts, however, say the bones aren't important. Yossi Nagal, the Israel Antiquity Authority's head of anthropology, examined the find, and says it's the remains of two Bedouin women buried about 200 years ago. The Cal State team "got overexcited," says Hanan Eshel, a leader of the Qumran dig and an archaeologist at Tel Aviv's Bar-Ilan University. More important than the bones, says Eshel, is a zinc coffin also found nearby by Dubay and Walker. Zinc has never before been found in burial artifacts from the Essenes' time. That signals an important, probably wealthy person...
...other over the arrest of militants in the Gaza Strip. Gunmen fired on Palestinian security forces in Gaza City after Hamas members were picked up on suspicion of violating the cease-fire. To counter the violence, a group of 100 leading Israeli and Palestinians, including former Israeli cabinet minster Yossi Beilin and Palestinian Information Minister Abed Rabbo, signed a joint declaration calling for the resumption of peace talks. GREECE A Myth Finds Substance in the Hills The search for the Golden Fleece is one of the most evocative of Greek myths. Now archaeologists believe it may be more than just...