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>JN Jan. 18, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 10
New Driver Apprehended Traveling at 118 mph
By IsraelWire
Police apprehended a new driver over the weekend after he was documented to be traveling at 118 mph. Police of the national Traffic Enforcement Unit arrested the motorist, a 25-year-old man from Nahariya who was traveling in a Mercedes Benz. In another speeding incident, an 18-year-old motorist was apprehended traveling 106 mph. The driver, a resident of Kiryat Bialik, was driving a VW Golf on the road from Caesarea to Haifa.
Syrian Talks Indefinitely Postponed
By Deborah Tate (VOA-White House)
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has confirmed that another round of peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara, scheduled to begin Wednesday, has been postponed indefinitely. But she says both sides will send experts to Washington to continue working toward a peace accord.
Following phone conversations with the two men, Albright attributed the delay in the talks to what she said was the their differing approaches to a working document presented to them by the United States. The document effectively lays out the opening positions of each side on such key issues as borders and security arrangements.
In a written statement, Albright said the parties agreed to send lower-level experts to Washington to continue working on the document. A U.S. official said the experts are expected to arrive within the next 10 days.
Postponement of the talks was first announced by Barak's office Monday -- one day after Syria said another round would be pointless unless Israel pledges to return all of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in the 1967 war.
Barak has said the scope of a withdrawal from the Golan will depend on Syrian security guarantees, and has called the Syrian preconditions unacceptable.
Earlier Monday, before the announcement of the talks' postponement, President Clinton said the parties have been making progress despite the difficulties. Israel and Syria resumed peace talks after nearly a four-year hiatus last month. The two sides concluded their last round of talks a week ago in Shepherdstown, W. Va.
Terrorist Bomb Injures 25
By Susan Sappir (VOA-Jerusalem)
Twenty-five people were injured when a bomb exploded in a Hadera trash bin. Israeli security officials investigating the explosion are treating it as an attack by Arab militants opposed to the peace process. Prime Minister Barak said the terrorist attacks would not deter Israel from pursuing peace.
Israeli police were on alert against further attacks. Palestinians were disappointed on Sunday when Israel decided to postpone a scheduled hand-over of West Bank land to their control. The reason for the delay was a dispute over which lands were to be transferred.
Barak said last week that Israeli security forces were on alert to head off possible attempts by Islamic militants to derail his peace talks with the Palestinians and the Syrians.
Police said the Hadera bombing is similar to two other explosions in the last two months in the same area, which remain unsolved. One of the injured is in moderate condition, and many others were treated for shock. "We're looking at this as a nationalist incident," a police spokesman said - meaning that it was of a terrorist nature.
Israeli Army radio said there had been warnings earlier in the day of such an attack, and some 85 Arabs have been detained for questioning. Security sources presume that the perpetrators are from the Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organization with a base in the Shomron. Similar explosives were planted in Netanya in early November, injuring 27 people.
Israeli security forces succeeded several days ago in preventing a massive terror attack slated for this week. General Security Service (GSS) agents, acting on intelligence information gathered from inside the Palestinian autonomy, arrested four Arab students enrolled in the UNWRA college in Ramallah. The four admitted under interrogation that they had received orders from Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus to carry out a large-scale terror attack this coming Thursday.
Palestinians Steal Israeli Bees' Nests
By Arutz-7
Beekeepers around the country have begun a national protest against what they call the "carefully-calculated buildup of a Palestinian beekeeping industry by destroying ours." Some 2500 beehives were stolen in 1999 by Arabs and taken into the Palestinian autonomy.
Beekeeper Levy Schneersohn of Kfar Chabad spoke to Arutz-7: "One hundred of our hives have been stolen, even though there is protection around the town, as well as a gate. But they simply broke through the gate, and made off with them. They are simply looting us, and somehow we as a nation accept this... No, we are not insured, because no one agrees to provide insurance for this, but we have gone to the government - which we hold to be responsible for this situation, because of its policies - but so far, to no avail.
"The absurdity of this situation is that we know where our hives are - near Halhoul (south of Gush Etzion) - and if I could go there I would be able to find them. But the army will not designate a group of soldiers to accompany me... This is simply a national humiliation - they are robbing us blind, and we do nothing about it."
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