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JERUSALEM- Israel's security service pressures Palestinians seeking to leave Gaza for medical care to work as informers, a new report says. More ... The Dead Sea is shrinking because nearly every source of water that fed into the original Ein Gedi Spa at the Dead Sea has been cut off, diverted or polluted over the last half century. "This is a completely man-made disaster,"says Gidon Bromberg, the Israel director of Friends of the Earth Middle East, an international environmental group. More ... JERUSALEM—The yeshiva student who pried Barack Obama's prayer note from the Western Wall apologized. Identified only by the first initial of his name, Alef, and with his face obscured, the student went on Israel's Channel 2 television to confess that he took the presidential contender's note and passed it to the press. More ... JERUSALEM—Israeli university heads are demanding that the defense ministry stop preventing them from enrolling Palestinian students. The Council of Heads of Universities sent a letter to Defense Minister Ehud Barak, signed by the rectors and deans of six universities asking him to respect their academic freedom. More ... JERUSALEM—Israel cut its 2008 budget in order to channel more assistance to Holocaust survivors. Every ministry except defense and education will have its budget reduced by six percent. The $209.4 million in savings from a fiscal plan of $89.1 billion will go toward implementing the recommendations of the Dorner Commission, which studied Holocaust survivor stipends. More ... |
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