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"Israel is finished! Long live America!" Set to be evacuated from the tiny Jewish outpost of Kadim in the northern West Bank, Motti Elgarissi has only one dream: to emigrate. "I can't go on any longer. (Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon wants to uproot us? Very well then, I can't stand this country any longer," said Elgarissi. The postage-stamp sized, putrid-smelling Kadim with its overgrown grass and decrepit alleys is perched above the Palestinian city of Jenin, itself a veritable bastion of resistance to the Israeli occupation. Now in his 50s, Elgarissi earns a living by operating a mobile restaurant out...

Talks on evacuees’ compensation to begin next week NRG Maariv has learnt that an attorney of 80 families from Samaria settlements slated for evacuation is to meet with Justice Ministry officials. Uri Yablonka Settlement in Judea and Samaria (Archive photo). The negotiations over the amount of compensation evacuated settlers would be entitled to under the framework of the disengagement plan are to begin next week. NRG Maariv has learnt that a representative of 80 families, which make up the core of four Samaria settlements slated for evacuation – Ganim, Kadim, Sanur and Homesh, will meet with Justice Ministry officials. In...

Oct. 29, 2003 Israeli couple wounded in shooting near Jenin By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH Photo: IDF An Israeli couple were wounded, the husband seriously, when a terrorist opened fire at their vehicle as they drove on the road leading to Kadim near Jenin in the northern West Bank on Wednesday afternoon. Location of Wednesday's shooting attack Seven bullets hit the vehicle, wounding Valeri Weissbrott seriously in the jaw and his wife Nelly who was lightly wounded from shrapnel and suffered from shock. It is the third time the couple have been shot at by terrorists in exactly the same location, but...