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>JN Oct. 26, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 198
Chinese Saga of a Jewish Physician
By IsraelWire
A new exhibition at the Israel Diaspora Museum, Beth Hatefutsot, tells the fascinating story of Dr Jakob Rosenfeld, a Jewish doctor from Vienna who fled Nazi persecution to Shanghai, to join Mao Zedong's Red Army. Rosenfeld spent much of the 1940s in the Communist Army as a front-line doctor and as chief medical officer. Read more about "The Chinese Saga of a Viennese Doctor - the Story of Dr. Jakob Rosenfeld" at www.bh.org.il/Exhibitions/temporary.htm
Barak Visits Turkey
By Amberin Zaman (VOA-Ankara)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is trying to further boost flourishing ties between his country and Turkey. Barak began his visit with the inauguration of an Israeli-built village in Turkey's earthquake area.
Amid loud applause, Barak handed Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit the keys for 312-prefabricated houses in Adapazari, one the provinces worst affected in the Aug. 17 quake.
Israeli rescue teams were among the first to reach Turkey's devastated northwestern provinces in the wake of the devastating quake, which killed 17,000 people and left many more homeless.
Turkey has long enjoyed close ties with Israel. The two countries are both pro-secular democracies, and, both face religious fundamentalist opposition within.
Relations between the two countries expanded greatly with the signing of a military training agreement in 1996. It allows Israeli pilots to train in Turkish airspace.
Turkey's Arab neighbors and Iran view the close relationship with Israel with deep suspicion. Ecevit stressed (Monday) that the aim of Turkish-Israeli relations is not war, as he put it, but peace.
Relations between the two countries are also rapidly expanding under a free-trade agreement ratified by both countries' parliaments last year.
Israeli support is viewed as crucial to Turkey's relations with the United States and helpful to its bid for membership in the European Union.
Barak is the first Israeli prime minister to visit Turkey officially. In 1958 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion secretly visited Turkey to meet with the Iranian shah.
Egypt's Millennium Bash Decried as Zionist Plot
By IsraelWire
An Islamic newspaper has denounced Egypt's plans for a spectacular
New Year millennium celebration as part of a Zionist plot to lay
claim to the pyramids.
Al-Shaab, bi-weekly mouthpiece of Egypt's Islamic-oriented Labor Party, argued that the show, organized by "Zionist" French musician Jean-Michel Jarre, would bolster what it called Zionist claims that Jews had constructed the 4,500-year-old pyramids.
"The Jews claim that they are owners of Egypt's ancient civilization and the builders of the pyramids," wrote Labor Party Secretary-General Adel Hussein in a front-page article.
Jarre, famous for albums such as Oxygene and Equinoxe, will perform a 12-hour electronic opera in a $9 million spectacular on the pyramids plateau, featuring 1,000 performers, lasers, fireworks, and a mix of Oriental and Western music.
"The climax of the awesome celebration is the placing of gold cap on the main (Cheops) pyramid. What we are dealing with here is crowning the top of our Great Pyramid with the symbol of Masonic Zionism," Hussein wrote.
Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has already come under fire from nationalists in the arts community for choosing a foreigner to lead the millennium party, expected to attract thousands of tourists and intense media interest.
"The minister is free to choose who he wants," said Culture Ministry spokesman Ahmed Khalil. "If (Jarre) is a Zionist or not is nothing to do with us. He's an artist."
U.S. Prosecutor: Sheinbein Sentence "Insulting"
By IsraelWire
Montgomery County (Md.) State Attorney Douglas Gansler has described as "insulting" a 24-year jail sentence handed down by the Tel Aviv District Court on Samuel Sheinbein, the U.S. teenager who pleaded guilty in a plea-bargain agreement to the 1997 killing of Alfredo Enrique Tello in Maryland. The prosecutor pointed out that Sheinbein would be eligible for parole in 16 years and would be permitted furloughs from jail in just 4 years.
Gansler told a Rockville, Md., news conference that the sentencing document used by the Israeli court was based on a confession Sheinbein made to his brother, Robert, in which Sheinbein said that he choked Tello, 19, to death after he tried to rob him and Needle with a sawed-off shotgun.
But Gansler said the shotgun belonged to Sheinbein a former resident of Wheaton, and that the confession also omitted the mutilation, bludgeoning and stab wounds suffered by Tello. "It's insulting they were able to get away with that," Gansler said. "It was part of the Israeli prosecutors attempt to justify the sentence." Gansler said Sheinbein faced a "very strong" case in Maryland and would have faced a life sentence if convicted.
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