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Three-year-old toddler injured in the Haifa bombing is still in critical condition in the hospital (Haaretz)

Body of Palestinian, 25, accused of collaborating with Israel, found in West Bank city of Ramallah (Haaretz)

Yasser Arafat`s personal physician: We checked President Arafat and found that his health is good (AP)

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies Two Israelis, including a baby girl, were killed and two others lightly wounded Friday night by a Palestinian gunman who infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Negohot, southwest of Hebron. "To our regret, we have two killed and two more slightly wounded," said Dror Richter, spokesman for Magen David Adom. Israel Defense Forces troops and settlers killed the terrorist, but security forces were searching the area for any other attackers. The attack came as Jews in Israel were celebrating the first night of Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year -...

Senior U.S. official: Israel promised to consult U.S. before deciding to expel Arafat from the Palestinian territories (Reuters)

Arafat gets letter from Blair, thanks him for efforts to support road map, `protect the peace process`

Elite IDF troops backed by tanks and jeeps surrounded a small building in the West bank city of Hebron early Monday, after a wanted Palestinian fugitive ran inside the house and took it over. The incident started at 02:00 Monday morning when troops entered the city to arrest fugitives when suddenly they were fired on from a building in the southern part of the city. Troops surrounded the building and called on residents to come out. Most of the residents complied, and immediately afterwards more shots were fired from the building at IDF troops. The residents said that a masked,...

PA violence today and last night included a mortar shell at Netzarim in Gaza this afternoon; gunfire at soldiers in the Rafiach area of southern Gaza; shots at an Israeli car near Yitzhar in the Shomron; and rocks at Israeli vehicles near Beitar, Gush Etzion, damaging one vehicle; there were no injuries. A resident of PA-controlled Shechem armed with a knife turned himself over to police today, saying he had been dispatched to perpetrate a terror attack. In other attacks, Arabs opened fire at the IDF Girit outpost on the Israeli-Egyptian border; no one was hurt... Police are investigating whether...

Click here to view a comprehensive May 2003 report detailing the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate present in PLO Terror Regime children textbooks.

NEW YORK- The Palestinian Authority's official television station has broadcast a sermon calling for the "defeat of America." Palestinian Media Watch reports that official PA Television broadcast a sermon on September 5, 2003, in which Sheikh Ibrahim Madiras said: "If we go back 1400 years in time, we find that history is repeating itself, worshipers of Allah. The Prophet Mohammed . was besieged by two powers, Persia in the east and Rome in the west. These represent the Soviet Union and America of today. Persia represents Russia in the east, and America stands for Rome in the west. Persia fell...

The international community is na ve to believe that Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat will independently relinquish control over the terror groups and the Palestinian security forces, Foreign minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday. Israel and the United State have called for the unification of the Palestinian security forces and it is one of the Palestinian's obligations under the US-backed road map peace plan. "The international community does not understand Arafat's mentality or that of the Middle East," Shalom said. "To ask him to relinquish control over the [PA] finances, security forces and the terror organizations is like asking him to jump...

Ahmed Qurei, the incoming Palestinian prime minister said Wednesday he will offer Israel a comprehensive truce, and Palestinian officials said Hamas has signaled it might agree to stop attacks on Israelis. In an interview with Israeli television, Arafat said he is prepared to instate a renewed cease-fire with Israel which he would supervise But Israeli leaders say they want to first see Palestinian action to take Hamas and other militant groups out of commission before considering a cease-fire. The disagreement over the idea of a new truce underlined the depth of mistrust after three years of conflict and the failure...

Mon September 15, 2003 04:25 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Monday it planned to withhold some funds from Israel because of its settlement activities in Palestinian areas. The deductions would come from a $9 billion package of U.S. loan guarantees to help Israel weather a deep recession and fiscal crisis. But administration officials said they have yet to decide whether to penalize Israel for building a fence through the West Bank. Congressional aides doubted the White House would carry out that threat. Under legislation authorizing the loan guarantees, the United States would deduct from the...

(IsraelNN.com) Police apprehended a senior PA police official driving a Mazda Lantis that was stolen from inside Green Line Israel in 2001. He was questioned in an IDF district coordinating office and admitted to stealing the vehicle which he stated was abandoned.

"We want to defend [Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser] Arafat and kill the Jews wherever they are," said 10-year-old schoolgirl Aysheh Muhammad as she gripped a poster of Arafat outside his battered office Sunday, chanting slogans in his support along with her classmates. "I came here to defend President Arafat against the occupiers who are killing us every day. I'm prepared to make a big sacrifice. I'm prepared to go to the Jews myself and to kill them wherever they are just as they killed us and destroyed us," she said. Muhammad and her friends were among hundreds of Palestinian children...

It has been 10 years since the Jewish state made its largest-ever diplomatic gamble, and the storms it generated have yet to abate. In fact, as a diverse group of writers collectively attest in this edition, the stakes today are much higher than they were back when Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres took the fateful decision to recognize the PLO, allow its entry into Israeli-held land, and set in motion a mechanism that would potentially lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state. In a country famous for responding to international situations rather than creating them, the move made at...

The American Center in Jerusalem was one of the many places that the tragedy of September 11, 2001, was commemorated in Israel on Thursday, the second anniversary of the attack. In conjunction with the Ministry of Education, schools throughout Jerusalem were invited to a screening of the documentary In Memoriam, New York City 9/11/01, with Rudolph W. Giuliani. The documentary was an HBO special featuring extensive footage of the attack on the World Trade Center and its aftermath. Students from five schools from the Ma'aleh Adumim area attended this event and were asked to share their thoughts on the video....

Speaking hours before Hamas began its Tuesday murder spree, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon said he ordered the air force to use insufficient force to carry out its mission of bombing the Hamas leadership during its meeting in Gaza on Saturday. Ya'alon explained that he had purposely caused the mission of decapitating the Hamas leadership to fail, because he wished to avoid killing "innocent civilians." Not surprisingly, the anemic strike did not deter Hamas. Ahmed Yassin immediately called for revenge. And so it was that the innocent civilians who were killed were not Palestinians who were acting as...

September 10, 2003 – Instead of placing the ring on the finger of his beloved, 20-year-old Hanan Sand reverently laid the gold band on the shrouded body of his fiancee Nava Appelbaum as she was buried this morning. The guests who should have been getting ready to take part in the Appelbaum-Sand simcha tonight, rushed instead to attend the funerals of Nava and her father, Dr. David Appelbaum, this morning – less than twelve hours after they were murdered as they were getting out of their car for a father/daughter coffee date the night before the wedding. The depth of...

Arutz-7's Ariel Kahane asked Housing Minister Effie Eitam of the National Religious Party, "I admit, I have no real question; is there anything left to say that we haven't yet said, anything left to think that we haven't yet thought?" Eitam responded, "Perhaps what there is left to say is that the government seems to finally be open to the realization that we are facing a monster of a terrorist infrastructure that is totally dedicated to destroying our country... It is precisely for times like these that we have a state, and an army, and a national leadership, and I...