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>JN June 14, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 106
Munich Massacre Organizer Won't be Allowed to Enter Israel
By Ilene Prusher (VOA-Jerusalem)
Israel says a Palestinian who organized an attack on Israeli
Olympic athletes 17-years ago will not be allowed back into the
country, even though he has been living in the West Bank from time
to time for the past three years.
Israel decided to bar the return to Palestinian territory of the
man who masterminded the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the
1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Mohammed Odeh, also known as Abu Daoud, recently published a book
in which he admitted his role in planning the kidnapping of the
athletes. He has been living in the West Bank city of Ramallah
on and off since 1996, when Israel allowed him to enter the country
to attend a meeting of the Palestine National Council.
The 1972 massacre has remained a sore spot not only for Israel, but
also for Germany, whose police fought a bloody battle for the
release of the captured athletes. Last Thursday, the Munich
general prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Odeh and asked
other nations to cooperate in his capture.
The demand to bring Odeh to justice left Israel with a problem:
ignoring the arrest warrant might harm relations with Germany,
while complying with it might spark a new crisis with the
Palestinian Authority.
A spokesman for outgoing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said
the premier decided to bar Odeh after consulting with his foreign
minister, justice minister and attorney general. Israel Radio said
Netanyahu also consulted with Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak, a
hawkish Labor party leader who is trying to form a new coalition
government.
In his book, Odeh said he meant to use the kidnappings to gain the
release of 500 Palestinian prisoners. He said it was not his
intention to kill the athletes. Odeh told foreign news agencies he
would appeal the banning order.
No Prize for "Excellent" Chabad School
Arutz-7 News Service
The Chabad Girls School in Kiryat Malachi will not receive the
Education Ministry's Prize for Educational Excellence after all.
The committee that originally awarded the prize to the school
rescinded its decision, claiming that the school does not accept
Ethiopian immigrant children that have not undergone a ritual
conversion ceremony. Mayor Lior Katzav said the school has not
turned away even one Ethiopian student, such that the question is
academic.
"I personally object to this national Chabad policy [based on a
Halakhic opinion that considers the Ethiopians' Jewishness to be in
doubt], and I will not send my son to such a school. But we must
differentiate between this and the fact that this is simply an
excellent school - one that accepts new immigrants from Kavkaz,
from Georgia, from Buchara, from Russia.
"This is a miserable decision... How many Ethiopian students are
there in schools in Herzliya, or in Kfar Shmaryahu, or Ra'anana, or
the Gymnasium in Jerusalem? Those schools can be recognized for
their educational accomplishments, but our Chabad school cannot?
The prize, after all, is not for immigrant absorption, but for
educational achievements."
Seven Hundred Ethiopian Families Making their Way to Israel
By IsraelWire
Seven hundred Ethiopian Jews from Kwara are currently reported to
be making their way to Gondar. They are expected to arrive in
Israel in the coming days.
The Foreign Ministry, the Jewish Agency and other government
agencies are involved in the rescue mission and Foreign Minster
Ariel Sharon has called for an emergency airlift. Jewish Agency
Chairman Salai Meridor stated the Ethiopian government was not
preventing them from leaving.
Israelis In and Around Kosovo
Arutz-7 News Service
Seven Israelis have been arrested and briefly detained in Macedonia
after they flew a small pilotless plane above Kosovo in order to
photograph the goings-on below. Ma'ariv reported that the planes,
which can reach a distance 30 miles and can stay in the air for six
hours, are being used by a newly-formed Israeli company that wishes
to sell the pictures to foreign news agencies.
The Israelis said that they received the necessary permits, but
that a "young officer from the Norwegian forces stopped us, fearing
that we were photographing the NATO positions. When he viewed the
tape afterwards, he apologized." Some reports said that the
Macedonians had already announced that the case was closed. One of
the Israelis said, "For weeks now, television crews from around the
world have been sitting here frustrated because they can't get any
pictures. Our videos have been sold even to Bahrain and Qatar...
many countries are interested in our pictures."
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