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"The four Jewish towns in northern Samaria which the government will dismantle as part of the disengagement plan are not going to be the only ones,” Deputy PM Ehud Olmert declared today. Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whom many consider to be Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s ‘trial-balloon dispatcher,’ told Army Radio today that Israel will retreat from many more Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria than those included in the Prime Minister’s disengagement plan. Olmert made the comments while touring the separation fence in the area near Modiin. He assured reporters that, despite the fierce opposition to the Prime Ministers...

The Supreme Being is a legitimate, indeed desired, player in the mosaic that makes up daily life in Gush Katif. The 4,016 Qassam rockets and mortars that landed in the area, causing relatively few casualties and little damage, could not defeat the residents' spirits. Nor did the al-Batr missile sow despair with its relatively large, five-kilo, warhead that landed on the Zadok family's roof in Neve Dekalim. Only destruction. In Kfar Darom, Hannah Bart, a paralyzed victim of a terror attack, gave birth to a healthy baby. Everyone is convinced it is a miracle. In Atzmona, the residents are taking...