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>JN Aug. 4, 1998, Vol. 6, No. 137
Army Wedding
By Arutz-7 News Service
In an IDF outpost on the Lebanese border, IDF soldier Aryeh
Torlinsky was married Monday night to Yanina Tashnikov. In an
unusual move, the IDF allowed the wedding to be held at the base,
and even covered some of the nuptials' expenses, as Torlinsky is
listed as a "soldier without family" with financial difficulties.
Torlinsky serves as a cook on the base, and his friends there have
promised to attempt to emulate his efforts in their preparations
for the wedding feast.
German Jewish Group Calls for Investigation of Nazi Gold
By IsraelWire
Michel Friedmann, a member of the board of Germany's Central
Council of Jews in Germany, told the German media that his
government has an obligation to launch an investigation to
ascertain what happened to historical documents which contain the
details of what was done with the gold stolen from the Jews by the
Nazis.
Friedmann, in his comments to SR1 Radio, said it was
"incomprehensible" that the archives of these documents were
destroyed. The statement followers a recent government statement
which indicated the archives may have been destroyed in the 1970s.
Friedmann made it clear that as far as he was concerned, the matter
was not closed and he intends to find out what exactly happened to
the missing documents.
The report of the missing documents was compiled by Germany's
Federal Archive, with help from the Bundesbank, after America
called on Germany to investigate the missing documents. Reuters
reports that the files, known as the Melmer Files, contained 26
folders detailing the events that took place with the gold.
The Melmer files were named after the SS officer responsible for
totaling the amount of gold, which was stolen from the Jewish
victims who were later killed in the Nazi concentration camps.
Friedmann stated the missing documentation would serve as a basis
for calculating the appropriate reparations to be made.
Reuters adds that victims' gold was booked in along with millions of dollars worth of gold ingots plundered from banks in Nazi-occupied countries and sold, much of it in Switzerland, to raise hard currency to buy metals for arms manufacture.
30 Israeli Representatives at The Gay Olympics
By IsraelWire
"We hope to bring much pride to Israel" say the 30 Israeli
participants to the Olympics for homosexuals and lesbians which is
taking place this month in Amsterdam.
Fifty countries are participating in the event. Besides the regular
Olympic sport categories, competitions will be held in ballroom
dancing, bridge, bowling, chess and others. The Israelis will be
competing in such sports as basketball, marathon running,
ice-skating and swimming.
Doctors Undecided if Baby is Male or Female
By IsraelWire
After visiting seven different hospitals, their staffs have been
unable to determine the sex of an 11-month-old baby born in
east Jerusalem. The father has decided not to wait for the doctors'
decision, and to go ahead and raise the child as a boy.
"Initially I was told the baby is a boy," said the father, "but
then another doctor told me that the baby is neither male nor
female, and sent us for tests. We have taken him to seven
hospitals, and in each doctors tell us something else."
It is possible that an Israeli hospital would be able to determine
the sex of the child, but the father does not have the money
necessary to pay for the tests. "The General Histadrut Health Fund
is unwilling to pay for the testing, despite my wife's being an
East Jerusalem Israeli citizen," claimed the father.
The parents have turned to the organization "Doctors for Human
Rights" for help. In answer, the Histadrut Health Fund claims that
they have received no request from the family in this matter.
Professor Ariel Ressler, deputy head of the Endocrinology
Department in Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, pointed out, "This is a
recognized occurrence among the Arab public and is most likely
caused by marriages between close relatives. The internal organs
are determined by genetics, while the outer organs are determined by
hormones; sometimes there is confusion between the two."
Byzantine Street Uncovered in Bet Shean Excavations
By IsraelWire
Prior to construction of a new pedestrian mall in Bet Shean in
north-central Israel, where major archeological discoveries have
occurred in recent years, a rescue excavation uncovered about
100 meters of a basalt-paved road and mosaic sidewalk running along
the length of six shops, one within ornamented Greek mosaic
inscription reading "with luck, the Blues will triumph."
Danny Sion, director of the excavation on behalf of the Israel
Antiquities Authority, explained that during the Byzantine period,
two factions -- the Blues and the Greens -- competed in horse
races, but soon regressed to violence and rifts. Sion added that
this is only the second known inscription of this kind found west
of Jordan.
In addition, about 1,000 bronze and gold coins, and pottery, were
found and dated to the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods.
The Authority and the developer will integrate the inscription and
part of the ancient street into the new pedestrian mall.
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