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>JN Sept. 10, 1998, Vol. 6, No. 162
What is Average Wage following Histadrut Strike?
Israel Faxx Staff Report
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, the average salary
in the public sector has reached NIS 6,209. The average "high-end"
salary was reported to be NIS 11,987. The low end rests at NIS
3,581 (in the agricultural sector) and NIS 3,005 (in the food and
hotel sector). More average monthly salaries are Insurance and
banking industry -- 9,500; Water and electric companies -- 12,000;
Transportation and communications -- 7,900; Industry -- 7,400;
Education -- 6,200; Health and social services -- 5,800;
Construction -- 5,200; Agriculture -- 3,600; and Food and hotels --
3,000.
No Guns at Western Wall - Except on the Sabbath
Israel Faxx Staff Report
A gun-toting Israeli eluded security at Jerusalem's Western Wall
after police shut off metal detectors to appease rabbis demanding
strict observance of the Sabbath at Judaism's holiest site. A
police spokesman confirmed a Maariv newspaper report that security
officers routinely disconnected detectors on the Sabbath - from
dusk on Friday to sundown on Saturday - under pressure from
religious caretakers at the Wall.
The report said the Israeli man entered the Wall compound with
a 9 mm gun and left without causing any trouble. Jewish religious
law prohibits operating electronic devices on the Sabbath.
Iraq Dangerously Close to Nuclear Capability
By IsraelWire
It was learned that former UNSCOM weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, who recently resigned over what he called inaction by the United Nations, has discovered that Iraq has three nuclear devices that are almost ready. According to data accumulated by Ritter, the three devices only need fissionable materials to bring them to operational status.
Since submitting his resignation from the UN weapons inspection
team in August, Ritter has been an outspoken critic of the policies
being deployed by the UN and the Clinton administration, warning of
impending disaster if stern action is not taken against the regime
of Saddam Hussein.
Ritter reports that his team had more than enough information
regarding the nuclear devices, their hiding place and the
arrangements made to protect the site, but nevertheless a surprise
inspection of the facility was avoided. He accused the UN and the
White House of working against him and his team, blocking their
efforts to uncover Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Jordan Expels HIV-Infected Foreigners
By IsraelWire
This summer, Jordan expelled 26 foreigners infected with the HIV
virus, but Health Ministry officials would not identify their
nationalities. Foreigners are required to undergo medical
examinations, including HIV tests, to receive legal work permits
and residencies. If tested positive, they are forced to leave the
country, which quarantines AIDS patients.
Officials at the ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity,
said a total of 191 Jordanians were infected with AIDS, and 45 of
whom have died since the mid-1980s. They said 23 of the infected
patients were under age 18, including three children under five.
However, sources at the UN World Health Organization say about 600
AIDS cases have been discovered in the country, where the deadly
disease is dealt with as a "socially unacceptable" issue.
Patients infected with HIV are quarantined and the subject is
regarded as taboo because of its sexual transmission, particularly
among male homosexuals and prostitutes.
Homosexuality and prostitution, which exist in Jordan but to an
unknown degree, are illegal and looked down upon as "immoral
behavior imported from the decadent West," as many Muslim imams
(speakers) at local mosques and Islamic clerics describe them.
No More Customs on Computers
By IsraelWire
While participating in opening day festivities in an Abu Gosh
school, the prime minister announced that all customs charges on
personal computers will be eliminated. Benjamin Netanyahu reported
that the Finance Minister has already agreed and there will be no
more customs charges imposed on the importation of personal
computers.
Prior to the announcement, computers brought in from the United
States and Europe were only subject to Value Added Tax charges,
with the custom's charges already eliminated. The VAT charge of 17
percent will remain.
Spielberg Visits Nazi Concentration Camp
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Film Producer-Director Steven Spielberg paid an emotional visit to
a Nazi concentration camp north of Berlin Wednesday and said he was
encouraged that so many young Germans took part in tours of the
camp.
The American director of the film "Schindler's List" spent 45 minutes touring the camp where about 100,000 Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and political opponents of the Nazis were murdered between 1936 and 1945.
"I've never been here before, I've never been to a concentration
camp, a forced labor camp, a death camp anywhere inside Germany,"
said Spielberg, who has visited camps in Poland.
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