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Sacramento -- State Senate Democratic leader Don Perata and his Republican counterpart are quietly and urgently pushing a bill that critics say would torpedo a major investigation by election regulators into at least one sitting legislator's campaign finances. The bill, SB25, would make it harder for investigators to prove that a politician may have manipulated contributions to avoid new campaign donation limits. It would lessen the Fair Political Practices Commission's ability to use as evidence letters from political donors to candidates that accompany contribution checks. The so-called "transmittal letters" are said to make up a significant portion of the evidence...

IDF Chief of Staff Ya`alon: Security forces foiled 15 suicide attacks over past 90 days, six in the Nablus area (Israel Radio)

Volunteer reservist Dolly Rozolio, a mother from Kfar Saba who serves at the roadblock at Kalandiya south of Ramallah, thwarted an attempt by a woman to stab a soldier on Sunday afternoon. "Rozolio spotted the woman, whose face was covered with a scarf, taking a kitchen knife out of her bag as she approached the roadblock," Lt.-Col. Ronen Schviki, who commands Battalion 300, responsible for the area between Ramallah and Hizme, told The Jerusalem Post. "Rozolio yelled, 'Knife, knife,' to the other soldiers, and they immediately aimed their weapons at the woman, who dropped the knife." He said there has...