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>JN July 29, 1998, Vol. 6, No. 134
Palestinian Security Boss Says Netanyahu is a Racist
Israel Faxx News Service
The Palestinian security chief in the West Bank said Tuesday that
war with Israel was a possibility if Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu did not implement peace accords. "Netanyahu is racist and
bloody. He is leading his people and the area to bloodshed and
killing. He is a liar. He starts to lie as soon as he opens his
mouth," said Jibril al-Rajoub, head of the preventive security
service.
Beersheva Neighborhood Planned Near Toxic Dump
By IsraelWire
The Committee for Building Cities decided that a new Beersheva residential community will be constructed in an area in close proximity to a toxic substance storage facility operated by the Israel Railways.
Once the government announced the storage area was to be relocated in the future, the municipality immediately began announcing the new project, and plans to begin offering 500 plots for sale.
The Ministry of Environmental Affairs said the area is rated high as likely for a potential hazard, with about 100,000 tons of dangerous substances annually passing through the area designated for a residential area.
A spokesman for the Beersheva Municipality stated that if the way station was not closed in a fair period of time, it would be shut down. A spokesman for the Environmental Ministry added that if it were shut down, it would place the dangerous substances on the roads of the nation.
Immigration Celebration
By Arutz-7 News Service
The 2.7 million people who immigrated to Israel during its 50 years will be cause for celebration next week. The Jewish Agency will hold a Jubilee year celebration -- to be known as Immigration Day - -- on Aug. 4 at Ben Gurion International Airport.
Some 900 new immigrants will arrive that day on special flights from 12 different countries, including Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, the U.S., Mexico, England, France, Holland, South America and Hungary. They will be greeted by youngsters of the various youth movements, public figures, and musicians.
The rate of aliyah (immigration) to Israel over the past nine years has averaged approximately 100,000 a year.
Unemployed Man Wins NIS 1.5 Million
By IsraelWire
A 51-year-old Petach Tikvah man, who went job hunting Monday morning, is now less concerned about making a living. While riding the bus, his cellular phone rang. Lottery officials wanted to inform him that he won NIS 1.5 million in a weekly lottery.
"I thought it was a goof," stated the new millionaire, but the person on the phone was able to supply enough information to make him realize the call was no hoax. The man worked for Motorola for 27 years, prior to being laid off last year. Since then, he has not found any steady employment.
Rabbi Kaduri: "Government Will Not Fall"
By IsraelWire
According to a report in Ma'ariv, Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri, considered to be a leader of the Kabalists of the generation, has predicted the Netanyahu government will not fall.
"The prime minister may relax. The government will not fall and the planned withdrawal will be delayed once again," stated the rabbi. The rabbi made his statements while in Tzfat (Safed), where he visited the gravesites of righteous leaders, in a special prayer effort for peace among the nation of Israel.
The aged rabbi went in his wheelchair from grave to grave, praying, lighting a candle, and blowing the shofar (ram's horn).
University Planned for Israeli-Jordanian Border
By Paula Wolfson (VOA-Washington)
A college based in New York City has some big plans for the Middle East. Touro College wants to build a campus along the Israeli-Jordanian border in a desert region with no centers of higher learning. The project has won government support in Jordan, Israel and the United States.
Touro College President Bernard Lander says knowledge will bloom in the middle of the desert. "Establishing an educational institution in a no-man's land between Israel and Jordan, which is owned by both and cultivated by both, a school where one door leads into Jordan and another door into Israel, with a joint faculty and joint sponsorship, in a desert area -- a hot desert where little blooms and little grows without human effort -- is a kind of an historical event."
The college will offer degrees in agriculture and business, with a goal of spurring development in the region. But Lander says research conducted at the new campus will benefit other countries as well.
Touro College is a private jewish-sponsored institution of higher learning, with branches in New York, California and Russia. The new campus in the central region of the Jordan Rift valley will enroll its first class of 500 students in the year 2004. The faculty will come from Jordan, Israel and the United States. All classes will be taught in English.
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