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Welcome news for nationalists: The Cabinet Sunday approved Bar-Ilan lecturer and conservative columnist Dr. Yoaz Hendel as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s new media advisor. His official title is head of the National Information Directorate (NID), and Dr. Hendel said he intends to change the department’s structure and establish a media and spokesman's directorate, which will be headed by current Channel 2 News Deputy Managing Director Liran Dan. Video Hendel also was a columnist for the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot newspaper and military correspondent for the Makor Rishon newspaper. In a column last year, Hendel castigated the freedom of Arabs to build...

Hendel: Olmert's Advisor Said His Job is to Make Settlers Hated 09:29 Feb 03, '06 / 5 Shevat 5766 By Hillel Fendel MK Tzvi Hendel, an expelled resident of Gush Katif now living in Yad Binyamin, said that Acting PM Olmert's political advisor said outright that his job is to get the public to "hate the settlers." Hendel made the accusation at a National Union Party press conference Thursday night. Specifically, he said that Eyal Arad, Olmert's strategic political advisor, had told a leading Yesha (Judea/Samaria) personality, "The nation hates you [the Jewish public living in Judea and Samaria] as...

Jan. 18, 2005 0:49 | Updated Jan. 18, 2005 20:50 Sharon: Kassam attacks can't continue By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH AND NINA GILBERT Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, PM Ariel Sharon, and Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon visit an army base at the Erez border crossing between Gaza Strip and Israel. Photo: AP During a visit to the IDF Gaza Division on Tuesday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon discussed strategies to bring an end to the incessant Kassam rocket attacks and mortar shell fire towards Israeli towns and settlements originating from Palestinian villages in the area. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, IDF Chief of Staff...

MK Hendel charges “Sharon leading us towards civil war”New NU faction chairman says government should be immediately replaced. Minister Ezra warns "extremists will resort to violence". Knesset to discuss escalation of public discourse tomorrow. Uri Glickman and Avishai Ben-Haim MK Tzvi Hendel. MK Tzvi Hendel, who was today (Monday) chosen to be the Chairman of the National Union Knesset faction, told his fellow party members that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is leading the country towards civil war. “Sharon is crushing every democratic measure. If we do not want him to lead us down the path of civil war, a concentrated...

Deputy Education Minister Tzvi Hendel (National Union) had strong words against Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz this morning. Following Mofaz's latest statement in favor of removing the Jews of Gush Katif, Hendel said that Mofaz is "encouraging terrorism." In light of Mofaz's remarks that Gaza is not "the inheritance of our forefathers," Hendel said that Mofaz should learn some Bible and Jewish history. Speaking at the annual conference of the Israel Law Association in a hotel in Eilat, Mofaz said that he estimates that within five years, no Jewish towns would exist in the Gaza Strip. Mofaz himself lived in a...

IsraelNN.com) Deputy Minister (National Union) Tzvi Hendel today asked once again that the issue of the release of PA prisoners be linked to America's release of Jonathan Pollard. Hendel added "the impertinence cries to the heavens", explaining that while we continue to release terrorists, Jonathan Pollard remains in a US prison. Other requests made to the prime minister to link prisoner releases to the release of Pollard and Israeli citizen Azzam Azzam [who is imprisoned in Egypt] have been rejected by Prime Minister Sharon.