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>JN June 22, Vol. 7, No. 112
Gaza-West Bank Highway Wound Cost $2B
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Yediot Achronot, quoting Finance Ministry officials, reports an elevated highway linking the West Bank and Gaza Strip would cost $2 billion and take years to build. Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak proposed the 29-mile highway last week as a way to keep unauthorized Palestinians from entering Israel.
Hamas Planned to Poison Israeli Water Resources
By IsraelWire
Hamas plotted to cause a national epidemic by poisoning the drinking water in Israel with chemicals according to a report in Yediot Achronot. During Israel Defense Forces interrogations, arrested military head Mohammed Abu Tir revealed that Addle Awadalla, the chief commander of the military branch of Hamas, was responsible for masterminding the plot.
Abu Tir also told interrogators about a large shipment of weapon
systems from Iran which were transported to Israel through the Dead
Sea.
Internet Hate Sites
By Mike O'Sullivan (VOA-Los Angeles)
The Internet has opened the world of information to anyone with a
computer. But it has also given a voice to groups that advocate
racial hatred. The Simon Wiesenthal Center unveiled a list of hate
sites on the Internet.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Wiesenthal Center says that in 1995,
his organization could identify only one hate group online. "By
1996, there were about 300 such web sites. In December of 1997, we
came out with our first report, there were 600 such sites."
Today, Cooper says, there are more than 1,500 sites that advocate
racial hatred or white supremacy. The Wiesenthal Center official
says that with the emergence of the Internet, neo-Nazi and racist
groups have been given a new forum in which to express their ideas.
"This technology gives people for the first time an opportunity to
really bypass news editors, general managers at radio stations, all
of the existing traditions in the American media of where you draw
the line. On the world wide web, certainly in terms of the United
States, for all intents and purposes today, there are no rules."
Because the Internet is international, the ideas expressed are not
restricted by national boundaries. Cooper recalls that police in
Denver were puzzled by a killing involving a neo-Nazi skinhead.
They called to ask what would motivate a cold-blooded, random
murder.
"There, the issue becomes a lot more complex because as we know,
the Internet erases borders, both national and international, and
it could very well be that the New Jersey skinhead or the
"Charlemagne" neo-Nazi skinheads in France or a group in Germany
may land up inspiring an individual half-way across the globe."
The Wiesenthal Center official says the Internet is doubling its
reach every 100 days, as more people go online. He notes that many
web surfers are youngsters and says an increasing number of hate
sites are targeting children.
He says government cannot regulate it, but major Internet service
providers can -- by refusing to offer access to sites that advocate
hatred or violence.
El Al Welcomes Arabs
By Zohar Blumenkrantz (Ha'aretz Aviation Correspondent)
El Al is interested in recruiting Arab flight attendants, the
company's director general Joel Feldschuh told Arab reporters
at Ben-Gurion Airport. "There is no restriction on Arabs joining.
We'll be happy to take on suitable candidates if they approach us."
Feldschuh said that the only reason there are no Arab flight
attendants is that until now no appropriate candidates have been
found.
Feldschuh revealed that El Al is in the process of adding Arabic subtitles to its informational videos, but stated that he does not believe there is a need to make flight announcements in Arabic, since all Israeli Arabs speak fluent Hebrew.
Wheelchairs and Cars
By Arutz-7 News Service
An Israeli company has good news for drivers with disabilities. Gottlieb Transportation Systems (http://www.gottlieb.co.il) has designed and manufactured a device enabling a disabled driver to store a wheelchair on a car roof, and to easily remove it for use.
The Gottlieb GZ-91 model enables handicapped persons to access the
wheelchair independently from either side of a car's front seat.
The GZ-91 has been purchased within the past several years by the
Rehabilitation Department for disabled IDF soldiers, the Israeli
Ministry of Defense, the Israeli National Insurance Institute.
The product is publicized by Yad Sarah
(http://www.yadsarah.org.il), a community-based non-profit
organization whose 6,000 volunteer and small professional staff
provide, via 85 centers located throughout Israel, homecare support
services to residents (and aid to tourists) in need of temporary or
permanent assistance.
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