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Settler leader Adi Mintz sent an apology letter Thursday to US Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer explaining that he regretted calling him a yehudon (little Jewboy) in an interview he gave to the Shas movement newsletter From Day to Day. "I wrote a letter in which I told him that I didn't mean to insult him personally," said Mintz, who is the director-general for the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip. He added that he had not meant to hurt Kurtzer. Mintz told The Jerusalem Post the use of the word yehudon was also unfortunate in that...

ZOA Protests U.S. Ambassador's Interference December 23, 2003 Contact: (212) 481-1500 Attn: NEWS EDITOR Amb. Kurtzer Demands Transfer of Jews ZOA PROTESTS U.S. AMBASSADOR AGAIN INTERFERING IN ISRAEL'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly protested the remark, as reported by the Israeli media, that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer said it would be "unacceptable" if Israel's courts rule that the community of Migron is legal. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: "Imagine the outcry if there was an issue before an American court, and Israel's ambassador to the U.S. demanded that the...