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>JN Nov. 1, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 202
Former UK Chief Rabbi to be Interred on the Mount of Olives
By IsraelWire
Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jakobovits has died of a brain hemorrhage, at the age of 78. He was Chief Rabbi from 1967 to 1991. Jakobovits was born in Koenigsberg in 1921. After serving as minister to a number of London synagogues, he became in 1949 chief rabbi of Dublin and the Jewish communities in the Irish Republic. From 1958 Jakobovits was rabbi of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, New York, until in 1966 he was appointed chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, serving until his retirement in 1991.
Leaders Ready Three-Way Oslo Summit
By Laurie Kassman (VOA-Oslo)
U-S, Israeli and Palestinian leaders are gathering in Oslo to pay homage to former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered four years ago. President Bill Clinton will take advantage of the occasion to meet separately with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat to help push the peace process forward. Rabin's widow will also attend the commemoration ceremony at City Hall on Tuesday.
But the solemn occasion also gives the key players in the Mideast peace process a chance to meet with Clinton in the first three-way summit in nearly a year. Barak and Arafat will meet separately with Clinton later today. Then the three men meet together on Tuesday to try to restore the momentum of the peace talks. The Oslo meeting comes one week before Israeli and Palestinian negotiators launch the critical final status peace talks.
The final phase of the negotiations has to tackle several sensitive issues, including the status of Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees. Both sides set February as the target date for outlining a comprehensive accord. The deadline for the final peace deal has been set for September of next year.
Israeli and Palestinian teams are playing down prospects for any breakthrough in the Oslo meetings. But Palestinian negotiators say they want to urge a more direct U.S. role in the final status talks, something Israel has so far resisted.
It was in Oslo that Israeli and Palestinian teams secretly hammered out the framework for their 1993 peace agreement.
Terrorists Attack Bus on the West Bank
By Susan Sappir (VOA-Jerusalem)
Five Israelis were wounded when shots are fired on their bus in the West Bank Saturday. The apparent attack by Palestinians comes ahead of new peace talks.
The attack occurred near the Palestinian village of Tarkumiya,a crossing point to a newly opened safe passage for Palestinians to travel across Israel to Gaza. Israeli officials said they were searching the surrounding Palestinian area for the assailants but had made no immediate arrests.
The shooting comes ahead of today's summit meeting between Israeli, Palestinian and American leaders in Oslo where they are to open final status peace talks.
Witnesses said the assailants ambushed the bus near an Israeli military roadblock, where vehicles queue up. The new route opened last week under Israeli-Palestinian peace deals. Israel had held up its opening for years for fear of Palestinian attacks. Police and hospital spokesmen said none of the five Israelis suffered serious injuries.
FBI Concurs with Israel Police Regarding Doomsday Cults
By IsraelWire
An Oct. 20 FBI report indicated those individuals or domestic groups who attach special significance to the year 2000 concern the law-enforcement agency with the likelihood of millennium related violence.
A portion of the report deals directly with Jerusalem, where the FBI states an influx of tourists making pilgrimages and millennial cults will add to the danger. Israel Police have been paying special attention to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the holiest site to the Jewish religion, having already expelled doomsday cult members on three occasions, with the latest being last week.
Matchmaking Mix-up
By IsraelWire
A 25-year-old from Kiryat Shmona looking for a mate found out the hard way that even matchmaking services can make mistakes.
The young man joined a matchmaking service in Haifa and asked to meet women his age. He met one young woman and was disappointed with her. He called the service and requested to meet someone else. The matchmakers promised to help him and set up a new date - who turned out to be the same girl.
The matchmaking service apologized and blamed the mix-up on computer error. On the third date, the service fixed the man up with someone much older than he had stipulated. The young man felt himself injured by the unsuccessful matches, and sued the service. This week the Kiryat Shmona Magistrate's Court awarded him NIS 900 in compensation for the grief caused him by the matchmaking service.
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