Israeli forces hurl tear gas canisters at ambulances in Ni’lin
Ma’an News Agency 12/20/2008
   Ni’lin – Ma’an – Israeli Forces hurled two tear gas canisters toward an ambulance belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society on Friday during confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth in the central West Bank village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah... more.. e-mail

Divide and Shock in Palestine
Ewa Jasiewicz, Palestine Chronicle 12/18/2008
   8217;The West Bank is in the process of being strapped up for shock therapy.’The Palestine Trade and Investment Forum began in London this past weekend. Organised on the behalf of UK Trade and Industry and the Department... more.. e-mail

5 Qassams fired towards Negev Saturday evening
Ilana Curiel, YNetNews 12/20/2008
   One rocket hits Sderot factory’s courtyard but causes no damage; earlier mortar barrage hits kibbutz, causing damage to cosmetician’s office, private home. Residents say atmosphere tense, expect escalation in violence following termination of ceasefire -Four Qassam... more.. e-mail

Hadassah women’s group loses $90m in Madoff investments
Dana Weiler-Polak, Ha’aretz 12/21/2008
   Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, said Thursday that it has lost $90 million it invested with Bernard Madoff, the Wall Street investment manager who recently admitted to a running a Ponzi-scheme fraud that totaled $50 billion... more.. e-mail

Ten Wounded at Ni’lin’s Anti-Wall Protest
Justin Theriault, International Middle East Media Center News 12/19/2008
   At least ten civilians were wounded as hundreds of villagers from Ni’lin, located near the West Bank city of Ramallah, took to the streets Friday afternoon to protest the construction of the Israeli apartheid wall on their land... more.. e-mail

Three Wounded in Nonviolent Demonstration in Bethlehem
Justin Theriault, International Middle East Media Center News 12/19/2008
   Three Palestinian civilians were wounded in a nonviolent demonstration in Bethlehem, organized by the Popular Campaign Against the Wall and Settlements. Dozens of protestors marched after Friday’s prayers from the village of Um Salamouna, near Bethlehem, to the... more.. e-mail

Israel has turned West Bank town into prison
Daan Bauwens, Inter Press Service, Daily Star 12/20/2008
   QALQILYA, Occupied West Bank: Qalqilya has been an encircled town since the Israeli West Bank barrier was built around it in 2003. Only one narrow gate guarded by Israeli soldiers allows access. The anger, disbelief and protests over this situation... more.. e-mail

This week in Palestine Week 51 2008
IMEMC News - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 12/19/2008
   Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 15 m 30s || 14. 01 MB || This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www. imemc. org, for December 12 through 19, 2008. GENERAL LEDE: the... more.. e-mail

VIDEO - Protesters throw shoes at Israeli soldiers in Bil’in
Al-Jazeera, International Solidarity Movement 12/19/2008
   Report by Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall and Settlements - Demonstrators marched today after the Friday prayer carrying Palestinian flags and banners calling to end the Israeli occupation, stop the wall and settlement building, stop land confiscation... more.. e-mail

One Palestinian arrested as IOF raid Beit Ummar
International Solidarity Movement 12/19/2008
   Bethlehem Region - On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1. 00 in the morning, the IOF raided the home of the Al-Salabi family in Beit Ummar. About forty soldiers came to the village located near Road 60, south of Bethlehem. Two... more.. e-mail

Madoff funds may have been used to evade taxes
Lior Dattel, Ronny Linder-Ganz and Guy Leshem, Ha’aretz 12/19/2008
   Hundreds of Israelis who invested their money in the funds managed by Bernard Madoff and won’t have nice returns to look forward to anymore, may soon be required to report to the Israel Tax Authority on where they... more.. e-mail

Parliamentary recess has Knesset members idle and ’climbing the walls’
Shahar Ilan, Ha’aretz 12/19/2008
   It’s a toss-up as to which is the most popular activity among Knesset employees these days: playing solitaire or speculating about the outcome of the upcoming elections - especially who the next Knesset speaker will be. With parliament recessed... more.. e-mail

Bil’in residents cautious following Supreme Court order to move the annexation wall
International Solidarity Movement 12/16/2008
   Bil’in Village - The Israeli Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the second proposed route of the annexation barrier proposed by the Israeli military is illegal. The High Court judges concluded following the court session that the route presented by... more.. e-mail

Bil’in residents cautious following Israeli court ruling on wall
Ma’an News Agency 12/16/2008
   Bethlehem – Ma’an – Residents of the West Bank village of Bil’in reacted with caution on Tuesday to an Israeli court ruling that, if implemented, could save some of their community’s land from annexation by the separation wall. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled... more.. e-mail

Sheikh Jarrah protest camp due to be demolished again - Two internationals taken by Israeli police
International Solidarity Movement 12/16/2008
   Reports - Jerusalem Region - UPDATE: The two internationals have been released from the Israeli police station without charge. The tent was eventually taken down by the residents of Sheikh Jarrah, though it has now been rebuilt. The bulldozer, after threatening to... more.. e-mail

Court orders Israel to reroute part of WBank barrier
Reuters Foundation, ReliefWeb 12/15/2008
   JERUSALEM, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The Israeli High Court rejected government plans on Monday to build a section of its barrier in the occupied West Bank, saying the proposed route encroached too much on Palestinian land. Palestinians welcomed the ruling, but... more.. e-mail

’Jewish groups back Durban II no-show’
Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post 12/16/2008
   Israel is confident there is strong support among Jewish organizations for following Israel’s lead and skipping the 2009 UN World Conference Against Racism, or Durban II, in Geneva in April, according to Foreign Ministry officials. Aviva Raz Schechter... more.. e-mail

IOF troops round up 14 Palestinians in a single village
Palestinian Information Center 12/14/2008
   JENIN, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces at dawn Sunday raided the village of Zabuba west of Jenin city in tens of armored vehicles and rounded up 14 villagers including three boys. Locals reported that the IOF soldiers raided the village firing in the... more.. e-mail

Israeli forces attack demonstration in Jayyous
International Solidarity Movement 12/14/2008
   Qalqilya Region - Photos - On Friday December 12th, Israeli soldiers once again entered the village of Jayyous in order to prevent demonstrators from protesting against the Apartheid Wall. 150 residents from the village marched against the new route of the Apartheid... more.. e-mail

Barkat sweeps 30 of 31 city councilors
Jerusalem Post 12/15/2008
   In a major political feat, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has finalized his city council coalition with wall-to-wall support from all the major political parties in the city council, his spokesman announced late Sunday. The secular mayor’s coalition, which... more.. e-mail

$50b ’Ponzi scheme’ stings Jewish philanthropy groups
Natasha Mozgovaya, Ha’aretz 12/15/2008
   WASHINGTON - An alleged $50 billion fraud by Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff has caused deep ripples in the Jewish philanthropic world, forcing the closure of a charity aimed at reversing assimilation and intermarriage and triggering losses by prominent donors. The... more.. e-mail

Rich investors ’wiped out’ by Wall Street fraud
David Randall, The Independent 12/14/2008
   Some victims of Wall Street’s biggest fraud -- planned and carried out over decades by one of its most respected figures -- are as yet unaware that their entire savings have been wiped out, financial experts in New York said... more.. e-mail

Madoff Wall Street fraud threatens Jewish philanthropy
Gabrielle Birkner and Anthony Weiss, The Forward, Ha’aretz 12/14/2008
   The arrest of Wall Street trader Bernard L. Madoff, who federal agents say defrauded investors of an estimated $50 billion, has had immediate consequences in the Jewish philanthropic world. Madoff was arrested Thursday for allegedly defrauding his clients of $50... -- See also: Yeshiva U. may be a victim of $50b. scam more.. e-mail

Nonviolent Action in Ma’asara Commemorating the First Intifada
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center News 12/12/2008
   The Israeli military suppressed residents from Al Ma’asara village Friday during a popular demonstration against the wall that’s been built on Palestinian lands. This is happening on the 21st anniversary of the first Palestinian Intifada. When... more.. e-mail

Israeli Troops Suppress Non Violent Demonstrations in Bil’in and Ni’lin
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center News 12/12/2008
   The people of Bil’in statred a demonstration after Friday’s prayers that included international and Israeli activists, as well as a community from the Bethlehem district. The demonstrators raised Palestinian flags and rang bells for the anniversary... more.. e-mail

Jewish settlers shoot, critically wound Palestinian child
Palestinian Information Center 12/13/2008
   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- A Palestinian child was critically wounded on Friday when armed Jewish settlers encircled a Palestinian house and fired randomly in its vicinity in Al-Khalil city, eyewitnesses reported. They said that the boy was carried to hospital with serious... -- See also: Hebron boy sustains critical head-wound from Israeli fire more.. e-mail

Israeli forces detain, interrogate five Jenin residents
Ma’an News Agency 12/13/2008
   Jenin – Ma’an – Israeli forces stormed a village near the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday, detaining five Palestinians for interrogation before releasing them about an hour later, Palestinian Authority (PA) security sources told Ma’an. Three Israeli military patrols raided...

Qurei: Israel continues plan to annex Jerusalem, residents must not be intimidated
Ma’an News Agency 12/13/2008
   Jerusalem – Ma’an - Jerusalem residents were warned of an Israeli plan to build synagogues around Palestinian properties and religious sites in the Old City by Senior Palestinian Negotiator Ahmad Qurei. Qurei gave the warning during a tour of the city’s sites... more.. e-mail

Israel-Palestine panel holds session at UN Latin America meeting
Ma’an News Agency 12/13/2008
   Bethlehem – Ma’an – A panel of five experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict analyzed the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago... more.. e-mail

Hadash merges with anti-fence movement
Sharon Roffe-Ofir, YNetNews 12/13/2008
   Jewish-Arab party’s chairman says union with grassroots ’Tarabut’ movement, which gained reputation by battling separation fence, will help secure more Jewish votes -The Hadash Party’s council approved a merger on Saturday with the socio-political... more.. e-mail

Yeshiva U. may be a victim of $50b. scam
Allison Hoffman, Jpost Correspondent In New York, Jerusalem Post 12/13/2008
   Yeshiva University is trying to determine whether it was among countless investors whose savings may have been wiped out in a $50 billion Wall Street investment swindle that may be the largest in history. Jewish financier Bernard L. Madoff, a... -- See also: Madoff Wall Street fraud threatens Jewish philanthropy more.. e-mail

2 Qassams hit south Israel; no injuries
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 12/12/2008
   One rocket lands near kibbutz, another near security fence. Eshkol council head says ’for us the ceasefire ended weeks ago’ -Two Qassams fired from northern Gaza in the late hours of Friday morning landed in Israel’s... more.. e-mail

Three Palestinians seriously injured in Israeli assault on Bil’in protest
Ma’an News Agency 12/12/2008
   Bethlehem – Ma’an – Three Palestinian were injured by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Bil’in on Friday, according to a statement received by Ma’an. A “massive march” was organized by residents of the village near Ramallah... more.. e-mail

IOF kidnap 18 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Palestinian Information Center 12/12/2008
   KHAN YOUNIS, RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- IOF troops kidnapped on Thursday and Friday a total of 15 Palestinians from various areas of the West Bank and 3 more Palestinians from the southern Gaza Strip. On Friday morning, IOF troops kidnapped three Palestinians... more.. e-mail

This week in Palestine Week 50 2008
IMEMC News - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 12/12/2008
   Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| 11 m 30s || 9. 66 MB || This Week in Palestine, Week 50 This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www. imemc. org, for December 6... more.. e-mail

Illusions in Gaza
Amira Hass, Ha’aretz 12/11/2008
   The first thing that captures your eyes, after two years away, is a visual quiet. Gone are the flags of every color (including green) that once flew everywhere; the billboards commemorating shaheeds with their weapons, new ones popping up nearly... more.. e-mail

Testimony: Jewish settlers assault family in Hebron
Report, B'Tselem, Electronic Intifada 12/11/2008
   Raja Yusef Rashid al-Matariyeh, 40, married and a mother of five children, is a homemaker and a resident of Hebron. Her testimony was given to Issa Amro at the witness’ home on 7 December 2008: My husband and I... more.. e-mail

The house on Hayarkon Street
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 12/11/2008
   Human excrement, probably belonging to a homeless person, lies on the floor of my office. There is no flooring, only sand; there are no walls, only the skeleton of a building. This was my office, and across from it was... more.. e-mail

Palestinian Fighters Clash With Israeli Military in Eastern Gaza
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 12/11/2008
   A group of Palestinian fighters clashed, late Wednesday night, with Israeli soldiers near the Johr Eldeik village in eastern Gaza Strip, a press release revealed. In a joint press statement, emailed to media outlets, the armed wing of the Democratic... more.. e-mail

Pen Ultimate / A few no’s don’t mean a yes
Michael Handelzalts, Ha’aretz 12/11/2008
   At first it looked like the beginning of a beautiful, negative campaign. On huge billboards (and various Web sites), you could see a picture of the not-very-photogenic face of Ehud Barak, accompanied by two-word phrases in what is Hebrew, more... more.. e-mail

Google reports Israeli’s most-searched terms
Tzahi Hoffman, Globes Online 12/11/2008
   Products developed at Google’s Tel Aviv center gave global results as well. Israeli Internet surfers apparently like games; it was the most frequently used search word in the past year on the Google search engine. Google Inc. (Nasdaq... more.. e-mail

Dear God
Kobi Nahshoni, YNetNews 12/10/2008
   Israel Postal Company delivers thousands of letters addressed to God from all over the world in festive ceremony at Western Wall - The Israel Postal Company made a special delivery on Tuesday. In a festive ceremony held at the Western Wall... more.. e-mail

Encountering Peace: Who owns the water?
Gershon Baskin, Jerusalem Post 12/8/2008
   The current water crisis is extremely serious. Years of mismanagement and irresponsible water policies are now being investigated by the state comptroller. This is not the first time that the water sector is under the scrutiny of a public investigatory... more.. e-mail

Charity: One in five Israelis on food aid has considered suicide
Ruth Sinai Haaretz correspondent and Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 12/10/2008
   One in five Israelis living on food aid has considered suicide due to economic hardship, according to an "alternative" poverty report published Tuesday. The report, released by the charity Latet, came after one published by the National Insurance Institute indicated... more.. e-mail

Foreign banks imperil TA rail project
Avi Bar-Eli, Ha’aretz 12/10/2008
   Funding for the Tel Aviv light rail project is in jeopardy after the banks slated to finance the project advised the tender winner, the MTS group, that they cannot meet their obligations. The Royal Bank of Scotland, and KfW and... more.. e-mail

Israel besieges Gaza’s fishing industry
Mel Frykberg, Electronic Intifada 12/8/2008
   RAMALLAH, West Bank (IPS) - Israeli naval commandos recently hauled off three international peace activists off Palestinian fishing boats seven nautical miles off Gaza’s coast. They were accompanying 15 Palestinian fishermen attempting to complete a day’s fishing... more.. e-mail

American Consul congratulates Palestinians on Eid Al-Adha
Ma’an News Agency 12/8/2008
   Bethlehem - Ma’an - The US Consul General Jacob Walles congratulated the Palestinian people on the day of Eid Al-Adha in a statement sent to media outlets. As Muslims around the world begin their celebrations of the Eid, said the... more.. e-mail

Netanya rocked by another mob slaying
Yaakov Lappin, Jerusalem Post 12/8/2008
   Netanya was rocked by yet another criminal assassination on Monday evening when a man identified as 27-year-old Nati Ohion, said to be linked to the Abutbul crime family, was gunned down in his car. A second man, Rami Meimon... more.. e-mail

Pilgrims perform symbolic stoning
Al Jazeera 12/8/2008
   Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims have taken part in a symbolic mass stoning as the annual Hajj reached its climax. The ritual in Mina, in which pebbles are thrown at a wall outside Mecca, symbolises the rejection of temptation... more.. e-mail

Anarchists Against the Wall awarded German human rights prize
DPA, Ha’aretz 12/8/2008
   A group that demonstrates every week against the fence separating Israel from the West Bank was handed a German human rights prize Sunday in Berlin. The Bil’in Village Committee, made up of Palestinians, and Anarchists Against the Wall... more.. e-mail

Security source: Settler violence could cause imbroglio with Muslim world
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 12/8/2008
   Recent confrontations between hard-line West Bank settlers and Palestinians, surrounding the evacuation of Hebron’s so-called House of Contention, are likely to entangle Israel in a religious confrontation with Muslim communities the world over, a senior security source told... more.. e-mail

Palestinian citizens of Israel allowed into Qalqilia in private cars
Ma’an News Agency 12/7/2008
   Qalqilia – Ma’an – Israeli forces allowed Palestinian citizens of Israel to enter the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia in their private cars on Sunday for the second time this year. The checkpoint locally known referred to as the “DCO” will... more.. e-mail

IOF shelling kills Palestinian fighter, wounds two others
Palestinian Information Center 12/7/2008
   GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian member of the Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the popular resistance committees, was killed on Saturday while on a resistance mission at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces. The armed wing said in a... more.. e-mail

Barak, Livni clash over Qatari aid, Qassam defense
Barak Ravid and Yanir Yagna, Ha’aretz 12/8/2008
   The pre-election political rivalry between Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak ratcheted up a notch yesterday, after the Kadima leader accused her Labor counterpart of harming the security of residents in the south and Barak rejected a... more.. e-mail

Labor’s long demise
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 12/8/2008
   Don’t blame Ehud Barak, he’s just the victim. Don’t blame Eitan Cabel, he is the one who registers the death certificate for the corpse that is the Labor Party, which has been wallowing in... more.. e-mail

Six injured in Bil’in and Al-Ma’sara protests; demonstrators march in solidarity with Hebronites
Ma’an News Agency 12/5/2008
   Bethlehem - Ma’an - Six protesters were injured after demonstration marches in the villages of Bil’in and Al-Ma’sara were assaulted by Israeli soldiers during their weekly marchin protest against aggressive Israeli policies on Friday. In Al-Ma’asra spokesperson for the People’s... more.. e-mail

Three wounded in Bil’in weekly nonviolent protests against the Wall
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 12/5/2008
   As the residents of Bil’in village, accompanied by Israeli and International peace activists, conducted their weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall on the village’s land and the escalating attacks carried out by the settlers... more.. e-mail

Five Palestinians, two international peace activists, wounded as army attacked Ni’lin weekly protest
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 12/5/2008
   As hundreds of Palestinian residents and international peace activists conducted their non-violent weekly protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall on Nil’in village lands, Israeli soldiers violently attacked them and fired at them wounding five residents and two Spanish... more.. e-mail

Bush: Israel is America’s 'closest ally in the Middle East'
Jerusalem Post 12/5/2008
   Israel is America’s "closest ally in the Middle East," US President George W. Bush said on Friday, as he spoke of his administration’s efforts to bring about an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. Speaking at... more.. e-mail

Twilight Zone / Out of prison
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 12/4/2008
   Osama wakes up early every morning these days and goes to work in his well-kept garden. Afterward he goes for a walk. It’s hard for him to sit at home. "It’s hard for me to stare... more.. e-mail

It’s Grim in Gaza
Anne Penketh, MIFTAH 12/4/2008
   I met Karen AbuZayd, the head of UNRWA, when she was sitting in the basement dining room of a trendy London hotel beside a mirror on which an artist has written in gold letters: "this is shit."It is understandable... more.. e-mail

Apartheid Must Not Be Tolerated or Promoted
Michael Severson, Palestine Chronicle 12/4/2008
   This is the picture I see but the picture that won’t be in The Smithsonian.Advertising finances a magazine’s publication. The higher the readership, the higher the cost to place an ad on its pages; evidently, the... more.. e-mail

Share Space, Defy the Wall
Mohammed Abu-Nimer – Washington, Palestine Chronicle 12/4/2008
   Arabs and Jews were separated for decades before the separation wall was built in the West Bank and around Gaza. When former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat travelled to Israel in 1977, he declared before the Knesset (parliament) that such separation... more.. e-mail

Tales from within: An eye on Nablus Balata Refugee Camp
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 12/3/2008
   PicturesAs you walk through the old city of Nablus the vibrancy of the bustling markets is an inescapable feature. As you walk through the cobble stoned streets, you encounter a collage of sights and smells. The pungent aroma from the... more.. e-mail

The young men from Kiryat Arba exact their ’price’ in the valley
Abe Selig, Jerusalem Post 12/5/2008
   As security personnel swarmed into Hebron’s Beit Hashalom on Thursday afternoon, Jewish youths from nearby Kiryat Arba launched a counterattack - breaking down a metal fence in front of the Nir Yeshiva and going down into the valley between... more.. e-mail

Jews storm Palestinian home in Hebron
Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 12/4/2008
   Palestinian residing near Federman Farm outpost says rightists set fire to his fields in protest of disputed house eviction. ’I fear it will end in disaster,’ he says -Several dozen right-wing activists stormed the grounds of a Palestinian... more.. e-mail

Abbas reimburses Palestinian after settlers steal horse
Ma’an News Agency 12/4/2008
   Bethlehem – Ma’an – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other senior Fatah members reimbursed a Palestinian resident of Al-Khader, near Bethlehem, for a horse stolen by Israeli settlers. Ibrahim Salah had previously appealed to Abbas, through Ma’an News Agency, to... more.. e-mail

Israel criticized at top UN human rights forum
Reuters, YNetNews 12/4/2008
   Syria, Egypt and Iran raise concerns about ’racist and discriminatory practices’ against Palestinians; western countries urge Israel to lift blockade -Israel drew fire regarding its human rights record on Thursday at a United Nations forum where its neighbors... more.. e-mail

Nablus hospital reopens after renovation
Ma’an News Agency 12/4/2008
   Nablus – Ma’an – Rafidia Hospital in Nabulus reopened on Thursday after being renovated by the Ministry of Health and USAID. The opening celebration was attended by Fathi Abu Mughli, the Palestinian minister of health and Howard Sumka, the head... more.. e-mail

Israel braces for settler violence following Hebron evacuation
Nadav Shragai and Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 12/5/2008
   The Israel Defense Forces and police are preparing for a wave of violence by extremist West Bank settlers against Palestinians after Thursday’s evacuation of Hebron’s so-called House of Contention. Settler violence erupted Thursday in protest against... more.. e-mail

Israeli authorities announce that Azzun is to be walled in
International Solidarity Movement 12/3/2008
   Qalqilya Region - Photos - Azzun villagers’ fears were confirmed when they were delivered a notice that Israeli authorities intend to build a wall between their village and the main road that runs along its northern edge - Road 55. At 6... more.. e-mail

USAID, Palestinian Ministry of Health Launch $57m Project
United States Agency for International Development - USAID, Palestine Media Center 12/3/2008
   December 02, 2008 - RAMALLAH, West Bank – Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Palestinian National Authority Ministry of Health launched the Palestinian Health Sector Reform and Development Project, which aims to strengthen the Ministry of Health... more.. e-mail

Fischer may head NY Federal Reserve
Allison Hoffman, New York And Sharon Wrobel, Jerusalem Post 12/3/2008
   Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer may be a dark-horse candidate for the presidency of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday included Fischer - a former MIT professor who supervised US Federal Reserve chief... more.. e-mail

Stanley Fischer reportedly on shortlist to lead New York Fed
TheMarker Staff and Reuters, Ha’aretz 12/3/2008
   Stanley Fischer, the governor of the Bank of Israel, is reportedly again a candidate to replace Timothy Geithner as president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, according to media reports. Geithner has been nominated for Treasury Secretary of the... more.. e-mail

Settlers rampage through West Bank villages, vandalize mosques
Ma’an News Agency 12/2/2008
   Nablus – Ma’an – Israeli settlers rampaged through five villages in the northern West Bank early on Tuesday, vandalizing mosques, attacking farms and harassing residents. In the villages of Yatma, Qabalan and As-Sawiya, south of Nablus, settlers slashed the tires of more... more.. e-mail

Armed Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, insult Islam
International Middle East Media Center News 12/2/2008
   Scores of armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank cities of Nablus and Ramallah, on Tuesday, attacked Palestinian-owned houses and properties in the Yetma, Qeblan and Assawiya villages. Witnesses said that the armed Israeli settlers attacked the Yetma and... more.. e-mail

IDF: Hebron violence shames us as Jews
Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 12/2/2008
   Senior military officer launches harshly-worded assault on behavior of right-wing extremists in case of disputed West Bank house slated for eviction. Meanwhile army decides to deploy special Border Guard force to isolate, secure area - "The events in Hebron are riots... more.. e-mail

Lawyer: Wall ruling could cut off 20,000 Jerusalem residents
Ma’an News Agency 12/2/2008
   Jerusalem – Ma’an – An Israeli court approved a re-routing of the Israeli separation wall on 25 November such that the barrier will isolate areas of Shu’fat, the Salam neighborhood, Anata and Ras Khamis from the rest of East Jerusalem. A special... more.. e-mail

OPT: Siege - Even fishing is a crime
Missionary International Service News Agency - MISNA, ReliefWeb 12/2/2008
   On the deck of an Israeli naval gunship: 15 Palestinian fishermen of the Gaza Strip stripped down to their underwear, forced on their knees, heads hooded, hands tied behind their backs and chains around their ankles; this for the 50km... more.. e-mail

Fischer may be candidate to replace Geithner - report
Uriel Harman, Globes Online 12/2/2008
   President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy Geithner will become the Treasury secretary. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Governor of the Bank of Israel Prof. Stanley Fischer could be a candidate to replace Timothy Geithner... more.. e-mail

USAID and the Ministry of Health launch a $57 million health sector reform and development project
United States Agency for International Development - USAID, ReliefWeb 12/2/2008
   Ramallah, West Bank – Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Palestinian National Authority Ministry of Health launched the Palestinian Health Sector Reform and Development Project, which aims to strengthen the Ministry of Health’s... more.. e-mail

Anti-Wall organizer remains in coma after tractor crash with Wall last week
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 12/1/2008
   Emad Bornat, documentary film maker of Bil’in, Palestine, who toured throughout Puerto Rico and the North East US with Tito Kayak, has been in a coma in Tel Aviv Hospital for about a week now. He sustained critical... more.. e-mail

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