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VIDEO - News / IDF releases audio recordings from Operation Entebbe Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 5/6/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for May 5, 2008. The Israel Defense Forces releases audio recordings from Operation Entebbe. Despite the investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres says he sees no reason for him to step down. The State Prosecution stands by its decision to try government employees in the case against Remedia. [end] VIDEO - English prostitution ring part of trend trafficking women out of Israel Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 5/6/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for May 5, 2008. A newly exposed prostitution ring, which brings Israeli women to England, may point to a growing trend of trafficking women out of the country. Meir Mizrahi, an Israeli citizen residing in Manchester, was recently arrested for heading that ring. Trafficking in women is not new to Israel. In 2001, the U. S. State Department placed Israel in the bottom category of countries ranked by their efforts to combat human trafficking. [end] VIDEO - News / IDF kills two Palestinians in separate incidents in Gaza Strip Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 5/4/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for May 1, 2008. The IDF kills two Palestinians in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip. Police summon Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for urgent questioning under caution. Avram Grant travels to Auschwitz after clinching Chelsea’s spot in the Champions League final. [end] VIDEO - Soldiers share moral dilemmas they face at checkpoints Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 5/5/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for May 1, 2008. Some of the soldiers who staff the Eliyahu Checkpoint in the northern Western Bank are highly sensitive to the moral dilemmas accompanying their job description. The soldiers in the Taoz Battallion of the Military Police are on their on their feet, often in the sun, 12 hours a day. But that isn’t the hardest part. [end] VIDEO - Israel’s African refugees Mat Heywood / Lihee Avidan, The Guardian 5/2/2008 Israel is now dealing with a wave of Christian and Muslim Africans, seeking refuge there. Looking for security they are turning to an accessible, wealthy country that has no policy with which to deal with them. [end] VIDEO - Survivor: Arabs capable of perpetrating worse Holocaust YNetNews 4/30/2008 ynet video - Holocaust survivor recounts Jewish life in Greece under Nazi occupation and later in Auschwitz. ’If the Germans, who are supposedly cultured, did what they did to the Jews, then imagine what other nations are capable of doing,’ he says (04. 30. 08) Video: Infolive. tvAuthor: Infolive. tv [end] VIDEO - News / Syrian reactor said to have been within weeks of completion Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/30/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 29, 2008. The CIA says the Syrian nuclear reactor was within weeks of completion before it was destroyed by the Israel Air Force. Findings show Israel failed to distribute German payments to Holocaust survivors since the 1950s. Intelligence warns of a major terror attack ahead of Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations. [end] VIDEO - Green Line village facilitates black market transactions into Israel Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/30/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 29, 2008. Barta’a, an Arab village on the Green Line, has become a de facto Free Trade Zone, through which black market transactions benefit Israeli businesses that take advantage of Palestinian prices. Half of the village is inside Israel, and other half in the West Bank. It was divided after the 1948 War of Independence, but with the Six Day War in 1967, it was informally reunited. The western half of the city is subject to Israeli law, and the eastern half is under Palestinian civilian control. But travel between the two halves is now possible, and along with it, cheap shopping for Israeli citizens. [end] VIDEO - Fighting Jihad in cyberspace YNetNews 4/28/2008 Israeli company Terrogence specializes in monitoring Middle Eastern and terror-related internet sites. ’We infiltrate those forums and websites using false identities in order to obtain the data that we need,’ one staff member explains (04. 28. 08)Author: Infolive [end] VIDEO - IDF lifts siege imposed on Nablus Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/28/2008 (Video) After more than a year, roadblock near Asira a-Shamaliya opens; move expected to ease passage of Palestinians. IDF fears rise in activity in most terror-oriented city in West Bank - VIDEO - Siege imposed on Nablus removed. The IDF was expected Monday afternoon to open the roadblocks near the village of Asira a-Shamaliya, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, to Palestinian movement, thus removing the siege imposed on the city considered as the main producer of terror in the West Bank. The opening of the roadblock - after more than a year - is an additional step within the framework of easing of restrictions imposed on the Palestinian population in the West Bank, decided upon by Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Video: Infolive. tv The opening of "Roadblock 804" is considered the most significant step to date within the framework ofthe Israeli gestures to the Palestinians. VIDEO -Assad: Regional warfare will remain conventional Roee Nahmias, YNetNews 4/27/2008 (Video) In interview to Qatari newspaper al-Watan Syrian president continues to deny facility bombarded by Israel in September was nuclear reactor, but stresses that his country opposes weapons of mass destruction - VIDEO - Syrian President Bashar Assad maintained Sunday that his country had no intentions to develop nuclear weapons, and that a Syrian facility bombarded by Israel last September was a military site under construction. Video courtesy of Infolive. tv In an interview to Qatari newspaper al-Watan published Sunday, Assad stressed that Syria opposed weapons of mass destruction, while supporting Iran’s right to obtain nuclear energy. "We support the right of all world nations, not just Iran, to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, but we are against weapons of mass destruction," he stated. VIDEO - Olmert isn’t the first to refuse to give up land - only to change his mind Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/28/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 27, 2008. Last week’s report that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has offered to cede the Golan Heights in exchange for peace with Syria doesn’t come as a surprise, historically speaking. Olmert joins a tradition of prime ministers refusing to give up land for peace, only to change their minds in light of geopolitical realities. Related articles: Netanyahu: PM promised Golan to Syria before talks ever began Syria said demanding Israeli guarantee on Golan pullout Peace or real estate Also on Haaretz. com TV: Neighbors of suspected U. S. nuclear spy can’t believe charges American rabbi practices peacemaking in Damascus Evangelicals visit for Israel’s 60th, call the sound of the mosque ’evil’ For more video news and features, visit Haaretz. com TV VIDEO - Teenage girl killed in Gaza raid Al Jazeera 4/26/2008 A 14-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in an exchange of heavy fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters in northern Gaza, according to medics. The Israeli military said that it had carried an air raid targeting armed men in Beit Lahiya, near the border with Israel, early on Saturday. "The air force launched two raids on Saturday morning against armed elements in the northern Gaza Strip," a spokeswoman said. Palestinian medics said that the girl was killed when an Israeli missile hit her house. Hamas officials told the Associated Press news agency that Hassan Marouf, a local leader of the group, was the target of the Israeli raid and troops withdrew after detaining him. The dead girl was reportedly his daughter, Mariam. Seven people were wounded in air raids, three of them left in a critical condition, they said. -- See also: YouTube: Fourteen-year-old girl killed in Israeli raid VIDEO - News / Top U.S. official: Syria site threatened to spread nuke arms technology Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/25/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 24, 2008. In this edition: A top member of the U. S. House of Representatives intelligence committee says the suspected nuclear site in Syria that Israel attacked last year threatened to spread nuclear weapons technology. The Prime Minister’s Office says Israel is genuinely interested in peace with Syria. The postponement of the Amos 3 communications satellite’s launch causes presidential embarrassment. [end] VIDEO - There was no second Pollard, says Eitan Haber Jonathan Weber, YNetNews 4/23/2008 (Video) Man who served as Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assistant at the time of first espionage affair believes revelation of ’new Israeli spy’ aimed at thwarting any chances of seeing Pollard released. ’One would be a fool to believe that the timing is a coincidence,’ he says -VIDEO -Eitan Haber, who served as Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assistant at the time of the Pollard affair, believes that Tuesday’s revelation of a new "Israeli spy" was aimed at thwarting any chances of seeing Jonathan Pollard released before US President George W. Bush leaves office. Video courtesy ofInfolive. tv"One would be a fool to believe that the publication of this affair at this time is a coincidence," he told Ynet on Wednesday. "I assume that the timing is not coincidental, and is aimed at sending a warning signal to the White House -. . . " VIDEO - Syrian report: Olmert agreed to concede Golan Heights Roee Nahmias, YNetNews 4/23/2008 (Video) Damascus-based website Sham Press reports prime minister informed his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that Israel will fully withdraw from area in return for peace with Syria. Prime Minister’s Office declines comment - VIDEO -Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has informed Damascus that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agrees to fully withdraw from the Golan Heights in return for peace with Syria, the independent Damascus-based website Press Shams reported Wednesday, quoting diplomatic sources. Video courtesy ofInfolive. tv The Prime Minister’s Office declined comment Wednesday on the report, saying that "we will not comment on the said report but we can refer everyone to the prime minister’s holiday interviews saying that we know what the Syrians want of us, and they know what we want of them. VIDEO - News / Jewish American man arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/23/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 22, 2008. In this edition:A Jewish American man is arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel in the 1980s. On the day of the Pennsylvania primary, the Clintons promise to support Israel. A 12-year-old boy who was buried alive saves five people in his death. [end] VIDEO - American Jewish rabbi practices peacemaking in Damascus Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/23/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 22, 2008. In recent years, Rabbi Marc Gopin increasingly finds himself in meetings with senior religious leaders in Syria, where he is considered a guest of honor. Gopin is the director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in Virginia. He is a strong believer of the potential religious texts have to encourage peace making. [end] VIDEO - News / Carter blames the U.S. for blocking peace with Syria Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/22/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 21, 2008. In this edition: Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter blames Washington for standing in the way of peace with Syria. A four-year-old boy is lightly injured by a Qassam rocket in Kibbutz Gevim. It was revealed that a message from Israel on a possible summit in Cairo went unanswered by Hamas. [end] VIDEO - Carter: Hamas willing to accept Israel as neighbor News agencies, YNetNews 4/21/2008 (Video) Former US president says in Jerusalem speech Hamas heads told him they are willing to accept peace deal brokered by Abbas that will include return to 1967 borders; reassures Israel captive Gilad Shalit in very good condition -VIDEO- Former US President Jimmy Carter on Monday said Hamas is prepared to accept the right of Israel to "live as a neighbor next door in peace. "His comments came after he met last week with the top Hamas leaders in Syria. Carter also said Hamas won’t undermine Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ efforts to reach a peace deal with Israel. He said Hamas is ready to accept a Palestinian state the West Bank and Gaza. Video:Infolive. tv Carter made the comments during a speech in Jerusalem on Monday during an event hosted by the Israeli Council of Foreign Relations. VIDEO - Evangelicals visit for Israel’s 60th, call the sound of the mosque ’evil’ Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/22/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 21, 2008. Last week, 3,000 evangelical Christian worshippers and preachers from around the United States visited Israel in a trip celebrating 60 years of independence. The trip was led by Joel Rosenberg, the son of a Jewish man and a Christian woman, who found Jesus at a young age and became a famous preacher. Evangelical Christianity boasts tens of millions of believers across the United States who are often credited with getting George W. Bush into the White House to lead the war against evil in the world. They give millions of dollars to the Israeli right and believe that only the Republican Party can save the planet. [end] VIDEO - Druze cling to land in campaign to prevent land expropriation Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/21/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 20, 2008. Druze youth last week allegedly threw burning tires and stones at passing cars, and a Molotov cocktail at a police car, on Route 70 between Yokneam and Tivon. Like so many of the sources of tension found in Israel, the backdrop was a land dispute. [end] VIDEO - News / Olmert: Israel’s intentions with regard to Syria are peaceful Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/18/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 17, 2008. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insists Israel has peaceful intentions with regard to Syria. The final footage from the camera of Fadel Shanaa, the Reuters journalist killed in Gaza on Wednesday, shows the Israel Defense Forces tank shell that killed him. IDF soldiers kill one Palestinian militant on the Israel-Gaza border, foiling an attempted infiltration and attack. [end] VIDEO - News / 20 Palestinians, three IDF soldiers killed in Gaza Strip Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/17/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 16, 2008. 20 Palestinians are killed in IDF strikes in the Gaza Strip. Hamas militants kill three IDF soldiers in an ambush in Gaza. Thousands sing happy birthday to Pope Benedict XVI at a white house ceremony [end] VIDEO - Reuters cameraman ’killed by Israeli tank’ Mark Sweney, The Guardian 4/17/2008 Warning: video includes graphic images of dead bodies which some may find disturbingMedical examination of the body of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana confirms that he was killed by an Israeli tank shell in Gaza yesterday, according to the news agency. Shana, the 23-year-old Reuters cameraman killed in an explosion in Gaza, also appears to have captured footage of a tank opening fire on the vehicle in which he was travelling. The cameraman, who died along with two youths who were nearby, had stepped away from his vehicle to film an Israeli tank dug in several hundred metres away, according to a report filed by Reuters. Fadel Shana: the Reuters cameraman killed in Gaza - Video from Shana’s camera. . . VIDEO - 3 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza battle Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/16/2008 (Video) Givati Brigade suffers three fatalities forces enter Gaza in pursuit of Palestinian terrorists who approached security fence near Kibbutz Be’eri; ’Soldiers only buffer between terror organizations, Israeli citizens,’ says IDF official - VIDEO -Givati Brigade’s Corporal Matan Ovdati (19) from Moshav Patsih in the western Negev, Corporal Menahesh Albinath (20) from the Negev town of Kuseife and Corporal David Papian (21) from Tel Aviv were killed Wednesday morning during intense clashes with a Palestinian terror cell near the security fence in central Gaza. Three other soldiers sustained light to moderate injuries in exchanges of fire that erupted in the area. Corporal Ovdati was promoted to the rank of sergeant posthumously. VIDEO - Clashes in Gaza Reuters, The Guardian 4/16/2008 Israeli soldiers and Hamas gunmen killed in fighting during fuel embargo [end] VIDEO - Western Wall stones crumbling Nissan Straukler, YNetNews 4/15/2008 (Video) Stones added to top of wall in 19th century show concerning signs of disintegration. ’Renovations will be done with cooperation of Israel Antiquities Authority, in accordance to Jewish law,’ says Western Wall rabbi - VIDEO - A routine inspection of the Western Wall’s stones has revealed that some of then are falling apart, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. The stones in question, oddly enough, are those atop the upper wall - an addition built in the 19th century. The stones in the bottom of the wall, which date back to the days of the Second Temple, show no more than minor damage. Video courtesy of infolive. tv - Some simple maintenance work is all that is needed in order protect both the integrity of the stones and the safety of those praying at the wall; but since the Halacha prevents removing or changing any of the Wall’s stones, scaffolding. . . VIDEO - Ex-U.S. President Carter answers questions from Haaretz Editor-in-Chief Haaretz Staff, Ha’aretz 4/15/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 14, 2008. Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter fields questions from Haaretz Editor-in-Chief David Landau during an international Internet conference hosted by TheMarker. Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, brokered a peace treaty in 1979 between Israel and Egypt - the first such deal between Israel and an Arab neighbor. Carter is currently on a visit to the region that will also take him to the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. [end] VIDEO - Report: Syria bracing for Israeli attack Roee Nahmias, YNetNews 4/14/2008 (Video) Qatari newspaper al-Watan reports of Syrian preparations against Israeli strike during coming summer; says Israel looking to May, June as possible window for attack - VIDEO - Is Syria preparing for war? Qatar’s al-Watan newspaper reported Monday that political and media sources in Damascus expressed concerns that war may breakout between Israel and Syria before long - Video courtesy of infolive. tv - According to the report, the nationwide emergency drill held by Damascus in response to a similar drill held by Israel last week, is one of the preemptive steps taken by Syria, which is supposedly responding to reports of Israel holding strategy meeting with the US in an attempt to devise an attack on both Syria and Iran. Israel, claimed the report, is eyeing the period between the end of May to mid June as a possible window of attack; and the proof, as a senior Syrian official told al-Watan, is in the fact that the Israeli drill covering the Golan Heights was closely monitored by a high-ranking American general. VIDEO - Hearing on sale of bread during Passover becomes debate on Jewish identity Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/15/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 14, 2008. A Knesset hearing on the sale of bread during Passover turns into a debate on Jewish identity. Beitar Jerusalem’s season hangs in balance after fans’ behavior cuts a soccer game short. Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter visits the southern town of Sderot. [end] VIDEO - News / Shin Bet admits to using terror suspects’ relatives to extract confessions Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/14/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 13, 2008. The Shin Bet security service admits to using relatives of terror suspects to extract confessions. Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter arrives in Israel. A mother from Netivot is charged with having sexual relations with her two young sons. [end] VIDEO - A growing line of people in need of food for Passover Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/13/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 13, 2008. With the Passover Holiday on its way, the line of people in need of food donations is only getting longer. The humanitarian organization Pitchon Lev began giving out food supplies last week. Because of the volume of people needing the organization’s services, its operations were divided among four different national centers. [end] VIDEO - ICAHD: Video of Prof. Jeff Halper being detained while attempting to prevent house being demolished International Solidarity Movement 4/12/2008 Jerusalem Region - Israeli police arrested Jeff Halper, the founder and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for attempting to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian house in the town of Anata, within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, on Wednesday morning. He was detained at the Metsudat Adumim police headquarters for two hours before being released. He has not yet been charged with any criminal offence but has been told he may face criminal proceedings. "It’s not clear if they’re going to press charges," Halper told Ma’an after his release, adding that he may be facing a jail sentence if charged. "I’ve run out of hours of community service so they’ll have to put me in jail but I doubt that it’ll happen. " Israeli police removed the furniture from the Hamdan family home in Anata before Israeli bulldozers moved in and leveled the house, an ICAHD spokesperson said. VIDEO - IDF hits cell responsible for Nahal Oz Attack YNetNews 4/11/2008 The Israeli Air Force launched several strikes on the Gaza Strip following Wednesday’s attack on the Nahal Oz fuel terminal, which left two Israelis dead. Ynet has secured footage of one of the strikes, which targeted two of the terrorist who were involved in the deadly assault. (04. 11. 08) Video: Footage courtesy of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit Author: Hanan Greenberg [end] VIDEO - News / 2 Palestinians arrested for plot to poison Ramat Gan diners Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/11/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 10, 2008. In this edition:Two Palestinians are arrested for a plot to poison Ramat Gan diners. The IDF blames Dor Alon gas station chain for not posting guards at the site of Wednesday’s Gaza infiltration attack. Tycoon Arkady Gaydamak is accused of the improper handling of vast sums in an deal between Russia and Angola. Police arrest 11 suspected members of a crime ring operating in the South, including an officer in the Israel Defense Forces. [end] VIDEO - Film offers look at Palestinian migrant workers living underground Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/9/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 9, 2008. The winner for Best Editing at this week’s Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival offers a rare and chilling look at the lives of Palestinian migrant workers who live in a literal abyss in order earn some cash. Jalal Hamdan is one undocumented migrant worker featured in "Six Floors to Hell," a new film by Yonatan Ben-Efrat. The subjects are 650 Palestinian laborers living underground, in the foundations of an abandoned mall at the busy Geha Junction in central Israel. [end] VIDEO - IDF soldier killed in Gaza clash Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/9/2008 (Video) Palestinians open fire at Israeli force operating near Kissufim crossing in southern Strip; soldier killes, two troops lightly injured. IDF fires back from air, killing Hamas gunman - VIDEO -An IDF soldier was killed and two others were lightly injured Tuesday night during an Israeli raid in the southern Gaza Strip, near the Kissufim crossing. The killed soldier was identified as Staff Sergeant Sayef Bisan, 21, of the Druze village of Jat in the western Galilee. His family was informed of his death. The wounded troops were evacuated to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. Video courtesy ofInfolive. tv During the operation, the troops encountered a group of gunmen who opened fire at them, killing one soldier and injuring two others. In response, the IDF fired at the Palestinians from the air, hitting two gunmen. VIDEO - 2 Israelis killed in "terror" attack at Nahal Oz Ali Waked, YNetNews 4/9/2008 (Video) Palestinian gunmen opened fire at border terminal in southern Israel, killing two Israeli civilians; IDF says "terror" cell set out to abduct soldiers. Ensuing Air Force strike kills three Palestinians in Gaza City - VIDEO - Two Israelis were killed Wednesday afternoon in exchanges of fire that erupted near the Nahal Oz fuel terminal in the central Gaza Strip, the Magen David Adom emergency services reported. The Israelis killed in the attack were employed at the terminal. They were identified as Oleg Lipson, 37-years old, and Lev Charniak, 53-years old; both from Beersheba. The Zaka emergency service said two Palestinian gunmen were killed as well. Spokesmen for militant groups who claimed responsibility for the raid said the remaining attackers withdrew back into the Gaza Strip, under fire from pursuing Israeli helicopters and tanks. VIDEO - News / Two Israeli civilians killed by Gazan infiltrators Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/9/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 9, 2008. Two Israeli civilians are shot to death by Palestinian infiltrators from the Gaza Strip. Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces say the goal of the attack was to abduct soldiers. IDF soldier Sayaf Bisan is killed during a routine operation in the Gaza Strip. [end] VIDEO - Nahal Oz residents shocked by attack Roi Mandel, YNetNews 4/9/2008 (Video) Residents of terrorized kibbutz asked to stay in secure rooms for fear of further firing by terrorists. Mortar shells continued to fall long after the gunmen left. Kibbutz resident: ’Nothing like this has ever happened here’ - VIDEO -"It was terrifying - I have been living in Nahal Ozmany years and I have never experienced such a barrage of shots and mortars," Nahal Oz resident Ofra Hartov recounted during an interview with Ynet, describing the terror attack on a fuel terminal located near the the kibbutz Wednesday, during which two people were killed. IDF officials estimated that three to five gunmen infiltrated the terminal from Gaza in an attempt to kidnap soldiers. Nahal Oz is the only kibbutz in the area with secure rooms, and the residents were told to remain hidden inside of these rooms. VIDEO - Sanctions force Gazans to wait in line for days for a bit of fuel Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/9/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 8, 2008. Where there is a gas station in the Gaza Strip, there is an inevitable line of cars several kilometers long, comprised of drivers who wait days and nights for a bit of fuel. Israel restricted fuel supplies to the Strip late last year, in an attempt to pressure Palestinian militants into halting rocket fire at neighboring Israeli communities. Gaza now receives roughly one-third of the diesel that Israel used to transfer. The rocket fire hasn’t abated, but civilians certainly are feeling the heat. Some drivers have been waiting an entire week in order to come away with a maximum of 20 liters of diesel fuel. [end] VIDEO - Home front drill: Sirens heard throughout Israel Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/8/1920 (Video) At 10 am Tuesday sirens heard across Israel, school children and government employees ordered to rush to shelters, fortified areas - VIDEO - Sirens were sounded throughout the country at 10 am Tuesday as part of the nationwide home front preparedness drill, dubbed "Turning Point 2", being held in the recent week. As part of the exercise, school children, government ministry employees and local authority workers were required to enter shelters or fortified areas. Video: Infolive. tv A drill simulating the landing of a rocket was held at the Knesset, and employees and committee members were ordered to rush to sheltered rooms. Additionally, the Home Front Command tested its new TV studio with a live broadcast on all electronic media outlets to relay instructions to the public. VIDEO - Report: Progress made in kidnapped soldiers’ bid Roee Nahmias, YNetNews 4/7/2008 (Video) Lebanon’s as-Safir daily reports of ’accelerating talks’ between Israel, Hizbullah to free captive soldiers Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev. Should move materialize it may lead to breakthrough in Gilad Shalit case - VIDEO - The negotiations betweenIsrael and Hizbullah regarding kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev have been given a "serious boost" by Israel in recent weeks, the Lebanese as-Safir daily newspaper reported Monday. According to Palestinian sources quoted in the report, the boost came from an unexpected direction: Israel’s decision to hold anationwide emergency drill "apparently prompted the Israeli powers to send acalming message (toSyria and the Hizbullah), thus the acceleration in the talks. " Video: Infolive. VIDEO - Dichter: Public indifferent to rocket attacks on south Roni Sofer, YNetNews 4/6/2008 (Video) ’Most Israelis completely oblivious to plight of Qassam-battered communities,’ internal security minister says, adding that additional Israeli concessions to Palestinians must be accompanied by anti-terror activity on PA’s part - "Yesterday some 120,000 residents of the south were forced to flee to shelters after the siren warning of an incoming rocket from Gaza sounded, but the majority of Israel’s citizens were completely oblivious to this," Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said during the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. "The recent Palestinian sniper attack on an observation point near Kibbutz Nir Am would have passed without significant media coverage if my assistant had not been inured in the incident," he said, referring to Friday’s attack on his entourage during a tour of Israel’s southern region with members of a pro-Israeli Canadian organization. VIDEO - Ultra-Orthodox target supermarket chain open on Sabbath Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/7/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 6, 2008. The battle that pits Israel’s ultra-Orthodox population against secular businesses has resumed. This time, the battleground is AM:PM, a supermarket chain that is open 24 hours a day - including the Sabbath. Because of AM:PM’s business hours, the Rabbinical Committee for the Sanctity of the Sabbath has called on Israel’s ultra-Orthodox to avoid businesses owned by David Weissman, who owns both AM:PM and Shefa Shuk, the Haredi supermarket chain. [end] VIDEO - Gazan Olympic hopeful awaits permit to travel to Beijing Haaretz Staff an Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/4/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 3, 2008. Nader al-Masri, from Beit Hanoun, is the fastest runner in the Gaza Strip, a title he’s earned under less than auspicious circumstances. Currently, Beit Hanoun’s fingers are crossed in hopes that Israel or Egypt will let al-Masri leave the battered coastal territory to take part in the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. Al-Masri trains in empty lots in Beit Hanoun, to the sound of Qassams being launched from the vicinity and IAF warplanes overhead. [end] VIDEO - MK Tibi visits Beirut despite ban Sharon Roffe-Ofir, YNetNews 4/3/2008 (Video) Arab MK arrives in Beirut after visiting Yemen, where he discusses Fatah-Hamas talks with president. Tibi claims his plane made an hour’s stopover in Lebanese capital, but Right-wing activists, MKs are outraged - VIDEO - MK Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List-Ta’al) landed in the Lebanese capital Beirut Wednesday night, accompanied by three Israeli-Arab journalists. The visit prompted an immediate condemnation by rightist MKs and activists. - Video: Infolive. tv - Israeli citizens are prohibited from traveling to Lebanon, which is defined by law as an enemy state. In response, Tibi said: "The Right is dying to see us forced out of the Knesset by fascist laws. This was just a one-hour stopover. " The MK explained that his plane made a planned stop in Beirut as part of the flight’s routine route from Yemen to Jordan. VIDEO - Religious tempers flare over court ruling on sale of hametz Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/4/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 3, 2008. Religious politicians are furious after a Jerusalem court permits the sale of hametz during Passover. Israel Defense Forces troops kill three Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. Jerusalem and Damascus attempt to diffuse speculations of heightened tension. [end] VIDEO - After 15 years of waiting, first Bedouin town approved Sharon Roffe-Ofir, YNetNews 3/30/2008 In 1993 Late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin pledged to establish a permanent Bedouin community in southern Israel, now the efforts of two tribes for recognition have finally bore fruit. MK El-Sana: ’What happened here teaches us that political battles are hopeless without public backing’ -Fifteen years after the members of two Bedouin tribes from the Ovdat region in the Negev erected a protest tent outside the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem - the National Council for Planning and Building saw fit to authorize the establishment of a permanent place of residence for Bedouins living in the area. This will be the seventh permanent community built in the Negev for the Bedouin sector. Video: Infolive. tvThe council’s decision was preceded by a government ruling determining there was a genuine necessity for such a community in the region. VIDEO - Israel privatizes West Bank checkpoints, but Palestinians miss the army Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 4/2/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 1, 2008. This week, five checkpoints in the West Bank joined the future - going from barbed wire and exposure to the elements to modern crossings that look quite a bit like airport terminals. The process is part of an ongoing privatization of Israel Defense Forces checkpoints, which are slowly but surely being contracted out by the defense ministry into the hands of private security firms. The government insists the new checkpoints save money and increase efficiency. But the Palestinians want the army back. Many are going kilometers out of their way to IDF-staffed checkpoints, in order to avoid the new crossings. [end] VIDEO - Peace Now: Settlement construction increased since Annapolis Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 3/31/2008 (Video) Group publishes report claiming Israeli construction in West Bank, east Jerusalem continues in full swing since US-sponsored peace conference, in which Olmert committed to freeze settlement expansion - VIDEO - Despite Israel’s commitment to freeze construction in the settlements following the Annapolis peace conference in November 2007, construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem has in fact increased in recent months, a new report published by Peace Now revealed Monday. According to the Left-wing group, tenders for the construction of some 750 housing units in east Jerusalem have been published after the peace conference, a huge increase compared to the 46 tenders published last year. All in all, the government is currently promoting the building of 3,648 new housing units in Jerusalem’s neighborhoods located east of the Green Line, the report stated. VIDEO - Adalah-NY: New Yorkers protest Leviev’s Israeli settlements, commemorating Palestinian "Land Day" International Solidarity Movement 3/30/2008 International Actions - Video - Boycott & sanctions - New York, NY, March 29 - Forty New Yorkers commemorated the Palestinian national holiday Land Day Saturday with the eighth protest at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. The protest included songs, theater and testimonials from villages threatened by Leviev’s settlements. Land Day marks Palestinians’ ties to their land, in defiance of Israeli efforts to displace them. "We targeted Leviev’s New York store on Land Day because his companies have recently built Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in at least four different locations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank," said Issa Mikel, a spokesperson for Adalah-NY. "He has also financed the Land Redemption Fund, a settler organization accused of using fraud to secure Palestinian land for settlement construction. VIDEO - News / Rice pressures Israel to ease restrictions in W. Bank Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/31/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 30, 2008. In this edition: Condoleezza Rice pressures Israel to ease restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank. Fearing a terror attack, police arrest four Palestinians in Bat Yam. Israeli Arabs and Palestinians mark the 32nd Land Day. [end] VIDEO - Israelis reach out to Gazan mother in Ashkelon following TV report Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/31/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for March 30, 2008. A televisionreport last week on Iman, a Gazan woman who give birth to twins in Israel, resulted in a rare show of cross-border humanism amidst bitter violence. While Iman gave birth several weeks ago, fierce fighting was taking place between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, and rocket fire from the Strip reached the grounds of the Ashkelon hospital where she was hospitalized. After a television report on Iman, the Barzilai Medical Center became swamped by hundreds of offers from Israeli citizens who wanted to help. [end] VIDEO - West Bank farmers struggle under occupation - 27 March 08 YouTube 3/27/2008 VIDEO - West Bank farmers struggle under occupation [end] [end] VIDEO - News / Judge calls evidence in Lieberman fraud probe ’worrying’ Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/27/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 27, 2008. In this edition: A judge describes as "worrying" evidence pertaining to a fraud probe into former minister Avigdor Lieberman. Tel Aviv turns off its lights as part of the global "Earth Hour" campaign. There is a rise in injuries and deaths in the Israel Defense Forces caused by accidents. Police request remand extension for a man suspected of complicity with his wife in the abuse of their 12 children in Ramat Beit Shemesh. [end] [end] VIDEO - Israel considers only deportation, not aid, for thousands of refugees Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/26/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for March 26, 2008. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the thousands of African refugees currently residing in Israel ’a tsunami’ earlier this week, but the state has yet to fully acknowledge that they even exist. Close to 3,000 refugees are estimated to have entered Israel through the border with Egypt this year alone, bringing the number of African asylum seekers in the country to more than 6,000. The Tel Aviv municipality announced last week it would erect a new tent compound in the city to take the refugees off the streets and out of the abysmally crowded and filthy shelters in which many currently reside. But the project was stopped by the Prime Minister’s Office, which may - or may not - have other plans for the refugees. VIDEO - News / Israeli and Arab envoys trade barbs at the United Nations Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/26/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 26, 2008. In this edition:Israeli and Arab envoys trade barbs at the United Nations. The Israel Defense Forces captures the mastermind of the 2002 Passover suicide bombing. Gilad Shalit’s father slams the government for not taking responsibility for his son’s abduction. [end] VIDEO - Recent incidents suggest rise in violence between Haredi, messianic Jews Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/26/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for March 24, 2008. Recent incidents point to heightened tensions inside Israel between the ultra-Orthodox community and messianic Jews, who believe in Jesus but consider themselves Jewish. In the desert town of Arad, a religious argument recently ended in an attempt by a messianic Jewish man to run over a member of Yad L’Achim, a Haredi anti-missionary organization. Edwin Beckford, a messianic Jew and resident of Arad, has been charged with assault and is now under house arrest. He says his action was a result of years of provocation and abuse. Just last week, the conflict appeared to have spread to Ariel, when a bomb seriously injured a teenage boy. Police suspect the boy’s family was targeted due to their messianic Judaism. VIDEO - News / Ariel boy seriously hurt by bomb he mistook for Purim gift Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/21/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 20, 2008. In this edition:A 15-year-old Ariel resident is seriously wounded by a pipe bomb he thought was a purim gift basket. The Health Ministry plans to vaccinate all health workers against measles. The panel of judges in the trial of the man accused of brutally murdering a 13-year-old Golan visit the scene of the crime for the first time. Tiberias garbage disposal workers discover dozens of 200 shekel notes buried in city sewage. [end] VIDEO - McCain in Holy Land; Evangelicals satisfied Yitzhak Benhorin, YNetNews 3/20/2008 (Video) US presidential hopeful’s visit to Israel aimed at gaining US Jews’ support, but also that of Evangelical Christians who believe Jewish state fulfills biblical prophecy about Jesus’ Second Coming, Time Magazine reports - WASHINGTON -John McCain’s "Holy Land pilgrimage" was aimed at gaining the support of the Jewish community in the United States, but more crucially, the support of Evangelical Christians who are a large part of the Republican Party base, Time Magazine reported Thursday. The US presidential hopeful, who is accepted by the independent voters and moderate Republicans but considered an alien corn among the party’s religious conservatives, sought to strengthen his ties with the Evangelicals. A visit to Israel and a show of support for the Jewish state was a right step in that direction. VIDEO - Seeing Israel through the lens of its collective memory Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/20/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 19, 2008. Israel’s history doesn’t lack documentation, but many of the young country’s most memorable images came from the camera of one man. David Rubinger, now 83 years old, is one of Israel’s most influential photojournalists, whose pictures frame the collective memory of a young nation. He was there almost from the beginning - from the United Nations announcement of the Partition Plan for Palestine, to Israel’s many wars, and everything in between. [end] VIDEO - McCain: If they were to fire at a city in Arizona, we would react Roni Sofer, YNetNews 3/19/2008 (Video)Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meets with US Senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, Republican nominee for President John McCain; PM says he’s skeptical if lull in south will hold. McCain: Situation is intolerable -Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met visiting US Senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham as well as presumptive US Republican nominee for President John McCain on Wednesday. The prime minister conveyed to the American officials his impressions that the current lull in violence in the south was only temporary. "I’m skeptical about what appears to be a temporary lull in the south. It’s doubtful if it will hold," Olmert said. McCain meets Livni, Netanyahu (Video: Infolive. tv) Olmert met over lunch with McCain, Lieberman and Graham at his residence in Jerusalem. VIDEO - Rabbi stabbed in Jerusalem Meital Yasur-Beit Or, YNetNews 3/18/2008 (Video) Less than two weeks after "terror" attack at Mercaz Harav yeshiva, rabbi at Ateret Kohanim yeshiva stabbed in neck in Old City, sustains light-moderate injuries. Nationalistic motives believed to be behind stabbing - VIDEO - An Israeli man has been stabbed in the Old City of Jerusalem, Magen David Adom emergency services paramedics reported Tuesday. The man, 49, was stabbed in the neck and sustained light to moderate injuries. Nationalistic motives are believed to be behind the stabbing. Video: Infolive. tv According to an eyewitness, the man attacked is a rabbi at the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva in the Old City, who was accompanied by a security guard. "An Arab stabbed him in the neck," spokesman for the United Hatzalah of Israel rescue organizationYerach Tucker told Ynet. VIDEO - Foreign workers’ plight Ynetnews, YNetNews 3/18/2008 (Video) The Law of Return gives Jews from the Diaspora the right to return to Israel, the land of their forefather’s, and to live here as citizens. Israel warmly welcomes every immigrant, receiving them with open arms as they arrive at Ben Gurion Airport. But walking around the Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv, a different reality emerges. The reality experienced by others who came from abroad: Foreign workers - Video courtesy of infolive. tv[end] VIDEO - News / Militants who killed 2 Israeli hikers grant rare interview Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/18/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 18, 2008. In this edition:The Palestinian militants who killed two Israeli hikers near Hebron grant a rare interview. Angela Merkel delivers a historic Knesset address in German. A Palestinian stabs and lightly hurts an ultra-Orthodox rabbi in East Jerusalem. U. S. presidential hopeful John McCain arrives in Israel for a two day visit. [end] VIDEO - Jerusalem police slammed for mishandling rightist riots Roi Mandel, YNetNews 3/17/2008 (VIDEO) Former police commanders harshly criticize forces’ failure to prevent right-wing activists from storming east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber Sunday - VIDEO - Former commanders of the Jerusalem District police harshly criticized Monday the police’s poor treatment ofSunday’s riots in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. Hundreds of right-wing protestors managed to reach the neighborhood, where the family of the terrorist responsible for the shooting attack at Mercaz Harav yeshiva resides, and throw stones at locals’ house. "There was enough time to prepare for the events in Jabel Mukaber and it was clear to everyone what was going to happen," retired police commander Arieh Amit stated. "This incident was simply poorly handled. "Sunday’s riots in Jerusalem (Video: Infolive. ) VIDEO - Rachel Corrie - Interview YouTube 3/17/2008 This is a video response to My name is Rachel Corrie | Remember Rachel Corrie [end] VIDEO - Conditions in the Gaza Strip continue to worsen - 17 Mar 08 AlJazeera, YouTube 3/17/2008 AlJazeeraEnglish video [end] VIDEO - Israeli, German officials attend historic government meeting Attila Somfalvi, YNetNews 3/17/2008 (Video) For first time ever, government holds session where nine corresponding ministers from Israel, Germany take part. Merkel reiterates Germany’s commitment to Israel’s safety, says Iran must exercise transparency - - The government held a special session Monday, in honor of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "This is an unusual, landmark event in the history of Israeli-German relations," said Prime Minister Ehud Olmertat the beginning of the meeting, which took place after the German mission visitedthe Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. " This is the first time the Israel government is sitting across from the German chancellor and the senior members of the German government"¦ this reflects the two’s desire to maintain an unusual relationship," noted Olmert. Video: InfoliveFrom an historical point of view, Monday’s meeting was the. . . VIDEO - News / Rightists attempt to storm E. J’lem home of yeshiva gunman Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/16/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 16, 2008. In this edition:Rightists attempt to storm the East Jerusalem neighborhood of the yeshiva gunman. Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu responds to reports of lavish spending during a U. K. trip. The Iron Dome anti-rocket system is tested in full for the first time. Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer says Israel won’t intervene in the foreign currency market again unless a global crisis erupts. [end] VIDEO - Muslim American uses ethnic humor to turn biases into laughter Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/16/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 16, 2008. Azhar Usman is one of many Muslim Americans who sprung up after September 11 whouse comedy to cope with stereotypes against their community. Usman’s stand up routine, which he has taken to over a dozen countries, takes some of our ugliest biases and uses them to turn fear into laughter. Usman, who is of Indian origin, grew up in Skokie, Illinois, a Chicago suburb with a sizeable Jewish populationAmerica (and Jews specifically for that matter) has a rich tradition of ethnic humor, and Usman has succeeded in making a living out of it. He is the co-founder of "Allah Made Me Funny ? The Official Muslim Comedy Tour. " VIDEO - News / Gaza militants pound W. Negev with Qassams, shattering lull Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/13/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 13, 2008. In this edition: Gaza militants pound the western Negev with Qassam rockets, shattering a recent lull. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says that Israel is to halt West Bank settlement activities. Jerusalem’s Mercaz Harav yeshiva commemorates its eight students slain in last Thursday’s terror attack. The body of gunman responsible for the yeshiva shooting attack is buried in a private East Jerusalem ceremony. [end] VIDEO - Al-Jazeera slams Israeli boycott as attack on freedom of expression Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/13/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 13, 2008. The Foreign Ministry’s decision on Wednesday to boycott Al-Jazeera stemmed from government outrage at the network’s coverage of Israel Defense Forces operations in Gaza, which the ministry said constituted incitement to terror. The Qatari-based TV network’s Jerusalem bureau denounced the decision as anti-democratic and an attack on the freedom of expression. [end] VIDEO - News / Arrest warrants issued for family members of yeshiva gunman Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/10/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 9, 2008. In this edition: Police issue arrest warrants for family members of the yeshiva gunman. / The head of the Shin Bet tells ministers that chances for a new Intifada are low. / Israel Defense Forces soldier Liran Banai succumbs to wounds sustained in an ambush on Thursday. [end] VIDEO - Erekat: Israel’s construction plans humiliate Abbas Associated Press, YNetNews 3/9/2008 (VIDEO) Chief Palestinian negotiator strongly condemns Israeli plans to build hundreds of homes in the West Bank and disputed east Jerusalem. Housing minister Boim: Construction in line with Kadima’s platform to hold on to settlement blocs - VIDEO - Israeli plans to build hundreds of homes in the West Bank and disputed east Jerusalem drew harsh Palestinian condemnation Sunday, just days before a visit by a US general to monitor the troubled peace process. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said he had appealed to the Bush Administration to pressure Israel o halt the projects. "Why do they insist on doing this and humiliating Abu Mazen in front of the Palestinian public?" he said, using the nickname of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. VIDEO - Soldier hurt in Gaza explosion dies Ynet reporters, YNetNews 3/9/2008 Givati soldier Liran Banai, 20, critically wounded after Palestinians detonate explosive device near IDF jeep in Gaza last week, succumbs to his wounds in Soroka hospital Sunday. IDF tracker killed in incident - Sergeant Liran Banai, who was critically wounded in an explosion near central Gaza last Thursday, has died of his wounds in Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center Sunday morning. The 20-year-old Banai from Ashkelon served at Givati Brigade’s Tzabar battalion as a jeep driver. He has been fighting for his life at the hospital for the past three days, after both his legs were amputated in the blast. Video depicting explosion on border (Video: Infolive. tv) An IDF tracker was killed in the same incident, after Palestinians detonated an explosive device near the force’s IDF Sufa jeep that was patrolling the area close to the Kissufim crossing. VIDEO - Olmert: Don’t grant terrorist’s family burial fees Roni Sofer, YNetNews 3/9/2008 (Video) Prime minister asks police to prevent hanging of Hamas flags near mourning tent set up for east Jerusalem man who killed eight yeshiva students. Police detain for questioning six right-wing activists on their way to shooter’s house - VIDEO - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday instructed the National Insurance Institute not to transfer the burial fees to the family of Alaa Abu Dheim, who carried out the bloody terror attack the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem on Thursday. The legal basis of the decision has yet to be examined. Protest at Armon Hanatziv (Video courtesy of infolive. tv) The prime minister also addressed the mourning tent set up in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, and asked the police to prevent the hanging of Hamas flags and other nationalistic elements at the tent or nearby. VIDEO - Intelligence report: Chances of 3rd intifada slim Roni Sofer, YNetNews 3/9/2008 (Video) Outbreak of limited violent revolt possible should number of Palestinian casualties increase significantly, intelligence officials tell cabinet in annual briefing, adding that Syria can be persuaded to sever ties with Iran in exchange for Golan Heights - VIDEO - The chances of a third intifada erupting are slim, but the outbreak of a limited violent revolt is possible should the Temple Mount complex be damaged or if the number of Palestinian casualties increases significantly, according to an intelligence briefing given to members of cabinet on Sunday. The annual intelligence review, presented by officials from the Shin Bet internal security service, Miltary Intelligence and the Mossad, said 25 Arab-Israelis had been involved in terror-related activities in 2007, adding that they had all operated under instructions from terror groups based in the West Bank. VIDEO - New program to allow mentally challenged to enlist in the IDF Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/10/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for March 9, 2008. A new project is set to give Israel’s mentally challenged an opportunity to undergo one of the society’s most important rites of passage. AKIM, the National Association for the Habilitation of the Mentally Handicapped, is cooperating with the Israel Defense Forces to enlist 200 mentally challenged citizens between the ages of 21 and 30 into the army. In the past, mentally challenged citizens would get an automatic exemption from the army at the age of 18. But this project is intended to close some of the gaps that prevent its participants from meaningful integration into Israeli society. [end] VIDEO - Officer who shot terrorist: I’m no hero Aviram Zino, YNetNews 3/7/2008 (Video) In meeting with Jerusalem mayor, David Shapira, IDF officer who stopped shooter at yeshiva attack Thursday, recounts moments of horror. Army chief praises Shapira for courage, exemplary behavior - VIDEO - David Shapira, the IDF officer who shot and injured the terrorist at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva Thursday, was not even supposed to be at the place, after switching his weekend leave with another officer. Eight people were murdered in the attack and 10 have been wounded. [end] VIDEO - Hamas flags hanged outside terrorist’s home Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 3/7/2008 (Video) Residents of Jabel Mukaber neighborhood say shooter who killed eight students at Jerusalem seminary Thursday was arrested by Israel four months ago, released two months later; neighbors claim he worked as driver at seminary - VIDEO - East Jerusalem residents said Friday that the terrorist who killed eight students at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem on Thursday had worked as a driver at the seminary. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the gunman was from Jabel Mukaber, a neighborhood in east Jerusalem, where Palestinian residents hold Israeli ID cards that give them freedom of movement in Israel. The man worked as a driver, Rosenfeld said, but would not provide further details Video courtesy of Infolive. tv Rosenfeld said the attacker walked through the seminary’s main gate and entered the library, where witnesses said some 80 students were gathered. He carried an assault rifle and pistol, and used both weapons in the attack. Rosenfeld said at least six empty bullet clips were found on the floor VIDEO - IDF to use unmanned jeeps in conflict with Gaza militants Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/6/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for March 6, 2008. The Israel Defense Forces are set to introduce an unmanned jeep into the ongoing conflict with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. While pilotless drones are already common in the Israel Air Force, this is the first time a driverless jeep will be used by the army’s ground forces. Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries jointly developed the guardian for the IDF, and it is expected to be deployed this summer along the security fence with the Gaza Strip, replacing many manned vehicles. [end] VIDEO - News / At least 7 killed in terror attack at J’lem yeshiva Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/6/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for March 6, 2008. In this edition: At least seven people are killed in a terrorist attack at a Jerusalem yeshiva. Palestinian militants kill one soldier and wound three others in an attack on an IDF jeep near the Gaza border. Four people are wounded as a Qassam rocket hits a home in Sderot. Related articles: At least 7 killed in terrorist attack at J’lem yeshiva Soldier killed, 3 hurt in attack on IDF jeep near Gaza border Four people wounded as Qassam rocket hits Sderot home Also on Haaretz. com TV: IDF to use unmanned jeeps in conflict with Gaza militants News / Tempers flare in Knesset as Eitam calls for Arab MKs’ expulsion News / IDF kills 18 Palestinians in Gaza as rockets pound Negev VIDEO - Khaled Meshaal Interview YouTube, Al Jazeera 3/6/2008 A report released this week by the American magazine Vanity Fair disclosed a plan by the US administration to overthrow the democratically-elected Hamas by arming rival Fatah forces through millions of dollars worth of weapons. This as Israel waged its deadliest round of attacks on Gaza since 2000. Al Jazeera’s Hashim Ahlbarra meets with Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal – head of the group’s political bureau, and asks him about the report. In this episode of Talk to Jazeera, Meshaal, talks about the leaked US plan of arming Fatah and instigating a civil war in Gaza. He also talks about rocket fire from the coastal strip and answers questions about a possible truce with Israel. Meshaal says the surfacing of this report vindicates Hamas’s seizing full control of Gaza, claiming that it was a pre-emptive measure forced upon them to preserve their existence and the voice of those who voted for them. VIDEO - Non-violent march through Ramallah streets ends reading the names of the fallen in Gaza at the Muqata International Solidarity Movement 3/4/2008 On Sunday, March 2nd, Palestinians marched alongside international supporters through the streets of Ramallah, banging pots, chanting, and making noise. They were protesting the massacres in Gaza, the continued siege, the silence in the international community, and the ongoing violations of international law. Around 200 people gathered near the Manara Square in central Ramallah and walked through roads and refugee camps singing, chanting, banging noise into the night in order to express their outrage and encourage bystanders to join. In the end they arrived at the Muqata, where Yassir Arafat is buried, and negotiated with the police to enter the closed off area. Inside, the names of the newly dead in Gaza were read to the crowd. After, a member of the P. A. spoke, and the entire crowd turned their backs to him and walked away, possibly signifying their outrage at the P. A. reaction to the massacres in Gaza VIDEO - IDF operation in Gaza ends, soldiers leaving Strip Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 3/3/2008 (Video) First stage of Operation Warm Winter comes to an end, as infantry and armor forces begin to pull out of northern Gaza Strip. ’The troops faced the missions they were tasked with courageously,’ military source tells Ynet. Meanwhile, IAF continues to strike in Gaza; Palestinians report two gunmen killed - VIDEO - Infantry and armor forces began pulling out of the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday night, after operating in the area since the weekend, bringing the first stage of Operation Warm Winter to an end. Video courtesy of infolive. tv The Israel Air Force continued to strike in the Strip overnight, however, with Palestinian sources reporting of two gunmen killed." The soldiers faced the missions they were tasked with courageously," a military source told Ynet shortly after the forces left the Palestinian territory. VIDEO - Rocket hits Ashkelon house; Qassams land in Sderot Tani Goldstein, YNetNews 3/3/2008 (Video) Another day of rocket fire begins with Grad, Qassam rockets launched from Gaza. Two rockets strike Ashkelon, one hitting seven-story building, second landing in playground; 28 people evacuated to hospital, most suffering from shock - VIDEO - IDF pulls out from Gaza, but rocket fire continues: Three Grad rockets were fired at Ashkelon on Monday morning, one hitting a seven-story building and the second landing in a playground. Video courtesy of infolive. tv Twenty-eight people were evacuated to the Barzilai Medical Center in the city, most of them suffering from shock. Two people sustained light wounds. The apartment hit by the rocket belongs to a senior officer serving in the Gaza Division, Ynet has learned. The officer, who took part in Operation Warm Winter in Gaza, heard about his house being hit by a Grad rocket, and returned to Ashkelon to observe the damage. VIDEO - Hamas vows to compensate Gazans hurt in IDF operation Ali Waked, YNetNews 3/3/2008 (Video) IDF’s Operation Warm Winter leaves 110 Palestinians dead, great damage, but organization insists it defeated Israeli army. Thousands attend victory marches in Gaza; Hamas’ al-Zahar promises to rebuild houses damaged in airstrikes, says kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit won’t be released before Israel frees Palestinian prisoners - VIDEO - Despite the 110 Palestinians killed in the IDF’s Operation Warm Winter and the great damage - Hamas insists it won the battle: Thousands of Palestinians marched in Gaza on Monday afternoon in rallies organized by Hamas, carrying the movement’s green flags. Hamas rally in Gaza (Video courtesy of infolive. tv During the rallies, Hamas leaders praised the "great victory" against the IDF in the Israeli army’s first operation in the town of Jabalya. VIDEO - Ramon: Why aren’t we firing back? Roni Sofer, YNetNews 3/2/2008 (VIDEO) Vice Premier Haim Ramon wants IDF to shoot back at launch sites even if they are located in civilian areas, says measure was approved during Lebanon War; justice minister to look into matter - VIDEO - To fire or not to fire? Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann will look into the legality of Israeli counter-fire on Palestinian targets located in the heart of population centers used as rocket launching sites. Friedmann will be examining the issue after Vice Premier Haim Ramon called to fire back on Palestinian rocket launchers even if they are located in civilian zones. IDF continues to hit Gaza. Video: Infolive. tv Speaking at Sunday morning’s government session, Ramon said: "Why don’t we shoot at the sources of the fire? According to international law, we are allowed to do it..." VIDEO - News / IDF kills 10 Gazans, Palestinians fire 22 rockets in ongoing fighting Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/2/2008 In this edition: The Israel Defense Forces kills ten Palestinians in ongoing fighting in the Gaza Strip. The two IDF soldiers killed on Saturday are laid to rest. One Palestinian teen is killed and four Israelis are wounded as the violence spreads to the West Bank. Related articles: 10 Gazans killed, 4 troops hurt in ongoing IDF op 2 Israelis lightly wounded as 33 rockets slam in western Negev Hebron teen dies, 4 Israelis hurt as violence spreads to W. Bank [end] VIDEO - Palestinian teen killed by IDF near Hebron Ynet reporters, YNetNews 3/2/2008 Clashes break out between soldiers and West Bank demonstrators protesting IDF’s Gaza offensive; 13-year-old boy killed during riot near Hebron, officer lightly wounded near Bethlehem - Solidarity rallies with Gaza in the West Bank have deteriorated into violent clashes with the IDF Sunday, as thousands of people took to streets to protest Israel’s operation in the Strip. One of the biggest rallies was held in Nablus, where more than 4,000 Palestinians protested at the town’s main square. Tensions high in Hebron. Video: Infolive. tv The protests were reminiscent of the first days of the current Intifada and the first Intifada and were held all across the West Bank, including the towns of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Hebron. Protestors carried Palestinian flags and photos of martyrs, while hurling stones at bottles at police and IDF forces. VIDEO - 2 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 2/29/2008 (Video) Gaza fighting claims lives of two IDF soldiers; seven others suffer light to moderate wounds after clash with Hamas gunmen - VIDEO - Cleared for publication: Two IDF soldiers were killed Saturday during a clash with Palestinian gunmen in northern Gaza Strip. Staff Sergeant Doron Asulin, 20, from Beersheba and Staff Sergeant Eran Dan Gur, 20, from Jerusalem, were killed Saturday morning in the Gaza Strip. Asulin was in the Givati brigade’s patrol battalion; Dan Gur was of the brigade’s Shaked battalion. The two were hit during a fire exchange with gunmen, who apparently used an explosive device during fighting. A military source told Ynet that "the soldiers acted as expected, but this kind of fighting is rarely without casualties." Seven other soldiers were injured in the incident“ six suffering light wounds and one suffering moderate ones..." VIDEO - Heavy rocket fire riddles western Negev Yael Branovsky, YNetNews 2/29/2008 (Video) At least 50 Qassam and Grad rockets fired at Israel since Friday night. Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon takes in dozens of of people injured in barrage - VIDEO - Twenty-two residents of Sderot and Ashkelon were transported to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon for treatment Saturday after being injured by the rocket salvo on the two southern cities. One Ashkelon resident was moderately injured, six were lightly injured and ten suffered from shock. Five resident of Sderot were treated for shock. At least 50 rockets were launched at Israel since Friday night, some landing in open areas in Sderot and the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council. Video: Infolive Saturday afternoon saw four Qassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza towards the western Negev; two landed in a Sderot neighborhood, causing a local gas leak. VIDEO - Israeli Minister Warns Palestinians of ’ Holocaust ’ Reuters, MIFTAH 3/1/2008 Deputy Israeli Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said on Friday the Palestinians would bring on themselves what he called a "bigger holocaust" by stepping up rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip. Deadly Rocket Attack Qassam victim’s daughter: I want my dad / Yael Branovsky (VIDEO) Bereaved family inconsolable as Roni Yechiah, killed in Wednesday’s rocket attack, laid to rest Full Story "Holocaust" is a term rarely used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi genocide during World War Two. Many Israelis are loathe to countenance using the word to describe other contemporary events. Israeli air strikes on the coastal territory, controlled by Hamas Islamists, have killed at least 32 Palestinians, including five children, in the past two days. Israel said it was responding to rocket fire by Gaza militants, which killed one Israeli in the southern border town of Sderot on Wednesday, and it threatened to launch a larger-scale offensive unless the barrage stopped. VIDEO - Grad lands near Ashkelon school Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 2/28/2008 (Video) Girl lightly wounded in latest rocket barrage; Defense Minister Barak orders ’Red Color’ alert to be employed in southern town of Ashkelon as well. More than 30 rockets fired at southern communities Thursday - VIDEO - Residents of the southern city of Ashkelon experienced one of their toughest days since rockets from Gaza started hitting the town. Single rockets were fired at the city in the past, but on Thursday a total of 10 rockets hit the city, leaving growing anxiety in their wake. Two long-range Grad rockets fired from the northern Strip Thursday evening hit Ashkelon, with one of the rockets landing near a school in the center of town. a 17-year-old girl suffered light shrapnel wounds in the latest attack and several other people suffered from anxiety. More than 30 Qassam and Grad rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel throughout the day. VIDEO - Qassams pound Sderot; 2 lightly injured Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 2/28/2008 (VIDEO) Rocket fire on western Negev continues throughout Thursday; officer on Minister Dichter’s security detail, 70-year-old Sderot resident lightly wounded by shrapnel in Qassam attacks. Meanwhile, IDF kills son of senior Hamas commander in Gaza - VIDEO - The Qassam fire on Israel’s western Negev continued uninterrupted throughout Thursday, a day after a student at Sderot’s Sapir College was killed in a rocket attack. Two people were lightly wounded in the attacks, while several others suffered shock. A raw-materials factory in Sderot’s industrial area sustained a direct Qassam hit. A fire broke on the premises and firefighters were sent to the place to extinguish it. A Qassam fired from northern Gaza landed near the college Thursday morning, wounding an officer belonging to Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter’s protection detail. VIDEO - Qassam lands near Sderot school; child seriously injured Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 2/25/2008 (Video) Ten-year-old boy sustains serious injuries to his arm during rocket attack on western Negev town; total of five Qassams fired toward Israeli territory from Gaza since morning hours - VIDEO - A 10-year-old boy sustained serious injuries to his arm Monday when a Qassam fired by Palestinians in north Gaza landed near a school in Sderot. The Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for the attack. Video courtesy of infolive. tv - Paramedics dispatched to the scene managed to stop the bleeding and evacuate the boy to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. A number of other residents were treated for shock. The parents of 10-year-old Yossi Haimov of Sderot received good news on Monday afternoon, after the hospital’s deputy director-general, Dr. Ron Lobel, informed them that the doctors had managed to save their son’s arm which was badly injured in the rocket attack. VIDEO - News / Woman, two children hurt in Qassam attack on Sderot Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/25/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for February 25, 2008. In this edition: Palestinian militants in Gaza fire rockets at Israel which hit Sderot, wounding a woman and two children. A Gaza protest against Israel’s blockade yields a disappointing turnout. Three Israel Defense Forces officers are injured in blast at a central Israel base. An American tourist drowns in a flash flood near the Dead Sea. [end] VIDEO - News / Israel braces for mass protest on border with Gaza Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/24/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for February 24, 2008. Inthis edition: Israel braces for a mass protest on the border with the Gaza Strip. The cabinet approves a plan to build safe rooms in Sderot buildings. Fatah and Hamas supporters clash during a protest in the West Bank. [end] VIDEO - News / Diplomatic crisis erupts in Arab states over Mughniyah killing Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/21/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for February 21, 2008. In this edition: A diplomatic crisis breaks out between Lebanon, Syria, Hezbollah and the Persian Gulf states over the assassination of Imad Mughniyah. Police commissioner David Cohen dismisses officers over October 2007 Peki’in clashes. Sderot residents in Tel Aviv protest against government policy on Qassam rocket fire. [end] VIDEO - Total eclipse over heart of Jerusalem Ynetnews, YNetNews 2/21/2008 (Video) Stunning footage of this year’s only full lunar eclipse over the Holy City’s skyline; next full eclipse expected in 2010 - VIDEO: Video courtesy of Infolive. tv [end] VIDEO - Abbas aide says declaring independence a possibility News agencies, YNetNews 2/20/2008 (Video) Member of Palestinian negotiating team Yasser Abed Rabbo says if talks with Israel continue to falter, Palestinians should unilaterally declare independence. President Abbas states proposal premature, voices his commitment to peace negotiations - Palestinians should declare an independent state unilaterally if peace talks with Israel continue to falter, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Abed abbo, said on Wednesday. But the Palestinian president said the proposal was premature and pledged to keep negotiating until the end of the year. In a statement, Abbas said that he remained committed to reaching a negotiated peace agreement this year. "If we are unable to do that... We will return to our Arab (brothers) to take the appropriate decision," he said. VIDEO - News / Shi’ites across Mideast hail Mughniyah as religious hero Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/20/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for February 19, 2008. In this edition: Shi’ites across the Middle East hail slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah as a religious hero. Police arrest a widow suspected of faking cancer to receive donations. A lawyer is jailed for fraud in dealing with Jews’ pensions in Germany. [end] VIDEO - "Hizbullah planning to murder Israeli minister" Itamar Eichner, YNetNews 2/19/2008 (Video) Following assassination of senior organization commander Imad Mugniyah, Shin Bet decides to increase security around Israeli ministers during official visits abroad, as well as private vacations - VIDEO - The Shin Bet has decided that Israeli ministers will be accompanied by security guards during their private vacations abroad, following the assassination of Hizbullah commander Imad Mugniyah last week, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. Video courtesy of Infolive. tv The General Security Service has improved the ministers’ security procedures for fear that Hizbullah would attempt to avenge the killing, and the new instructions have been relayed to security officers at the various government offices. The main fear is that the Shiite Islamic fundamentalist organization would target a minister, a Knesset member or a current or former defense official. VIDEO - News / Israel, Hamas reportedly make progress on Shalit deal Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/18/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for February 18, 2008. In this edition: Israel and Hamas reportedly make progress on deal to free abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit. An IDF Second Lebanon War veteran appeals to the government to approve cutting-edge medical treatment for his paralysis. Jerusalem braces for a rare second snowfall of the winter, as a storm that blanketed parts of Greece and Turkey makes landfall. [end] VIDEO - Sderot kids at J’lem protest speak of their distress Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/18/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for February 18, 2008. School kids joined other Sderot residents in Jerusalem last week toprotest against government policy toward the town battered by daily rocket barrages launched from the Gaza Strip. One of the children on the trip was Morel Dadon, who was celebrating her birthday. She said her feelings of anxiety eased as she left the rocket-weary south. [end] VIDEO - Sderot students: We want ministers to look us in eyes Rona Tal, YNetNews 2/14/2008 Youngsters from terror-stricken southern town travel to Jerusalem, hold classes next to Knesset building. ’We came to have fun, step out of our daily routine,’ says student - Not a regular field trip: Maayan, a 10-year old fourth grader from Sderot elementary school Alon Madaim, made a chilly track to Jerusalem Thursday. She and other Sderot students, in conjunction with the town’s parents’ committee, held their classes in a protest tent perched outside the Knesset building in the capital in order to demonstrate against the government’s treatment of the rocket-battered town. "Sderot is not just a little town somewhere in Israel,"¯ said Maayan, "lots of kids were born here and can’t just leave their home." ¯ Qassam victim regains consciousness. Video: Infolive. tv As part of this planned protest, three classes from Sdeort will make the trek to Jerusalem every single day. VIDEO - News / Nasrallah: Mughniyah’s blood will lead to Israel’s end Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/14/2008 VIDEO - Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for February 14, 2008. In this edition: Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says the killing of his deputy will lead to the elimination of Israel. The government warns Israelis traveling abroad of likely abduction attempts following Imad Mughniyah’s assassination. French President Sarkozy says he would not shake the hand of any world leader who does not recognize Israel. [end] VIDEO - W. Bank rabbi, Hamas supporter draft Hamas-Israel truce deal Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/14/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for February 14, 2008. Rabbi Menachem Froman of the West Bank settlement of Tekoa has for years been involved in interfaith dialogue toward Israeli-Palestinian peace. After a series of interfaith meetings, Rabbi Fruman and Hamas-allied friend Khaled Amayreh succeded in drafting a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. The two submitted the document, which covers the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, to the cabinet and to the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip. According to them, Hamas leaders have agreed to the deal’s terms, but Israel has rejected them. [end] VIDEO - News / Olmert to Merkel: Iran is covertly seeking nuclear arms Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/12/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for February 12, 2008. In this edition: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on a visit to Berlin tells German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Iran is covertly seeking nuclear weapons. A Palestinian stabs and moderately wounds an Israel Defense Forces soldier near Jenin. Public Security Minister Avi Dichter labels drug smugglers arrested in the Arava on Monday as ’terrorists. ’ [end] VIDEO - Sderot resident recalls Qassam attack that cost brother his leg Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/12/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for February 12, 2008. Rami Twito recalled on Monday the moments immediately after a Qassam rocket attack on his Sderot home on Saturday night. At first, Twito thought that the rocket had killed his younger brother Osher, who was more seriously hurt in the attack, after which doctors were forced to amputate his leg. [end] VIDEO - News / Sderot residents rally in T.A., protest against Qassam fire Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/12/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 news roundup for February 11, 2008. In this edition: Sderot residents rally in Tel Aviv, protesting against ongoing Qassam rocket fire. Four police officers are wounded, one seriously, in a car chase after Bedouin drug smugglers in the Arava. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad incites crowd of tens thousands to call for the death of Israel. [end] VIDEO - IDF veterans relieve post-traumatic stress through sailing Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 2/12/2008 Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for February 11, 2008. A group of Israel Defense Forces veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms go sailing every week in a Defense Ministry rehabilitation project. One of the shell-shocked veterans is Uri Lerner, who rescued under fire seven of his comrades after his unit was hit by an anti-tank missile during the Second Lebanon War. [end] VIDEO - Sheetrit: We should level Gaza neighborhoods Attila Somfalvi, YNetNews 2/10/2008 (Video) Stormy cabinet session opens government’s week, as ministers call for stronger retaliation against Qassam fire. ’We have to set a clear goal,’ says Transportation Minister Mofaz. ’Any other country would have already gone in and level the area,’ adds interior minister - VIDEO - Tempers heated Sunday as cabinet ministers discussed the ongoing Qassam fire on Sderot and the situation in Gaza. Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit suggested obliterating a Gaza neighborhood in response to Saturday’s Qassam fire on Sderot, saying "any other country would have already gone in and level the area, which is exactly what I thing the IDF should do - decide on a neighborhood in Gaza and level it." Video courtesy of Infolive. tv Israel , he added should provide residents with due warning: "We should let them know ’you have to leave, this area... VIDEO - Leg of boy injured by Qassam amputated Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 2/10/2008 (Video) Doctors at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon forced to remove part of eight-year-old Osher Tuito’s leg following serious injury by Palestinian rocket. Boy’s brother, Rami, also wounded in attack. Defense Minister Barak visits southern town of Sderot following Saturday’s barrage - VIDEO - Doctors at the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon were forced Sunday to amputate part of the left leg of eight-year-old Osher Tuito, who was seriously injured in a rocket attack on the southern town of Sderot on Saturday evening. The boy’s right leg was also seriously hurt. He was anaesthetized and his situation was reportedly stable. Video courtesy of Infolive. tv Meanwhile, Defense Minister Ehud Barak arrived in Sderot on Sunday morning and visited the place where the rocket landed, injuring Osher and his 19-year-old brother Rami. VIDEO - Sderot residents block entrance to Jerusalem Neta Sela, YNetNews 2/10/2008 |
