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>JN July 2, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 110
East Jerusalem School Children File Suit
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Close to 1,000 Arab students living in East Jerusalem filed a law suit against the government on Sunday explaining the shortage of government schools is preventing them from receiving a free education as is guaranteed by law.
Their lawyer maintains that the Arab residents of the capital are being discriminated against and are entitled to a free education, as are their western Jerusalem counterparts.
Helicopter Attack Kills Three Palestinian Militants
By VOA News
Palestinian officials say an attack by an Israeli helicopter gunship has killed three Palestinian members of the militant Islamic Jihad.
Earlier Sunday, two Palestinians were killed in a shootout with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. One Palestinian was a member of the militant group, Hamas, the other was a policeman. Israel says the two men were shot as they were planting a roadside bomb near an Israeli military base.
In another incident in the West Bank, Israel said Palestinian gunfire wounded an Israeli Arab as he drove a bakery truck.
Meanwhile, the two sides continue to differ on the starting time for a seven-day period of complete calm agreed on during last week's visit to the region by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat said the seven-day testing period began last Thursday. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said it cannot begin until Arafat does more to halt Palestinian attacks.
Arafat has told Israeli officials he is doing his best to stop the attacks. The Palestinian leader discussed the violence problem with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres Friday when the two met in Lisbon on the sidelines of an International Socialist conference.
Also on Sunday Israeli warplanes attacked Syrian military positions in eastern Lebanon. Lebanese officials said at least two Syrian soldiers and one Lebanese were wounded in the attack on a radar station in the Bekaa valley, where Syria has a large concentration of forces.
Israel said it carried out the air strike in retaliation for a rocket attack Friday by Hizbullah terrorists in a disputed border area near Shebaa Farms, seriously wounding one Israeli soldier. Lebanese officials said the Israeli attack triggered a new artillery duel between Israeli forces and Hizbullah.
Israel said it holds Syria, the dominant power in Lebanon, responsible for the Hizbullah's actions. Its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, speaking at a rally after the raid, warned that Israel was, in his words, "playing with fire" with its actions.
On Saturday, Syria and Lebanon warned Israel against retaliation. In a strongly worded joint statement, the two countries said they would hold Israel responsible for what they called acts of aggression. The statement also said defensive weapons used by the guerrillas cannot be compared to the weapons in Israel's possession. Many Syrian troops recently moved into the Bekaa Valley after pulling out of Beirut.
Israeli Cabinet Rejects Law That Would Bar Extradition
By VOA News
Israel's cabinet has rejected a proposed law that could have blocked the extradition of a 74-year old U.S. citizen accused of defrauding the U.S. government of millions of dollars.
The bill was prompted by the case of Chaim Berger. He was one of five members of the Satmar Hasidic Jewish community of New Square, in suburban New York City, who was indicted in 1997 on charges including conspiracy, fraud and embezzlement.
Berger fled to Israel and received citizenship. He was arrested by Israeli authorities in 1998 after the United States requested his extradition. A Jerusalem court authorized his extradition last year.
Ukraine Rabbi: Let My People Know
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Ukraine's Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich has asked Pope John Paul II to open church archives and reveal the names of Jewish children who were raised as Catholics during World War II.
The rabbi said that thousands of Jews in Poland and western Ukraine were taken in by Christian families to save them from the Nazis, and many of them were never told of their Jewish origins.
"We think that every normal person understands that Jewish children who were saved during the war should have been returned to the Jews after the war," Bleich said.
After the Holocaust, then-Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Herzog asked for Pope Pius XII's assistance in locating Jewish orphans who were cared for by Catholic families, but the pontiff refused.
Today's Israeli Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recounted last year that the present pope told him in 1993 that he had refused to baptize a Jewish child whose parents had died, "because the parents had specifically requested that the child be brought up as a Jew."
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